Professor Malcolm McDonald has consulted to many major companies from the UK, Europe, USA, Far East, South-East Asia, Australia and Africa, in the areas of strategic marketing and marketing planning, market segmentation, key account management, international marketing and marketing accountability. He has written over 40 books and was Professor of Marketing at Cranfield University School of Read More …
As most know, I think a few of the mapping methods used in the process fields are somewhat ludicrous when applied to sales and marketing. One of my favorites, of course, is Value Stream Mapping. It is, one of the applications that I see people try and try again to use thinking it can be Read More …
Professor Malcolm McDonald, until recently was Professor of Marketing and Deputy Director, Cranfield University School of Management, with special responsibility for e-business, and is now an Emeritus Professor at the University as well as being an Honorary Professor at Warwick Business School. Coming from a background in business which included a number of years as Marketing Read More …
Are you looking at variation the wrong way? In the Lean and Six Sigma world, we look at variation as something bad, something we need to rid ourselves of. That is the typical promise most process methodologies make to the sales and marketing people. We are going to streamline your sales/marketing funnels and make your Read More …
Our sales environment is changing. I believe that it can no longer be viewed from the sales and marketing funnels of the past. These funnels market to many and exclude people narrowing down to the ideal organization/person that eventually purchases. I believe we market toward opportunity and build funnels of opportunity versus funnels of exclusion Read More …
For a business to scale, you need new customers. Where do you find them? In the past, we looked at marketing to the masses and in hope that we will find a likely candidate and narrow them down through discovering how much pain they are in relative to our product offering. Some may call this Read More …