Stealing or Borrowing both Work

Does Innovation have to be that tough? Picasso said, “Good artist copy,  Great artist steal.  What do you think? Austin Kleon’s talk Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative is a creative manifesto based on 10 things he wish he’d heard when he was starting out. Austin is a writer Read More …

Customer Service include Psychic Pizza?

Next week’s podcast is the 2nd part of Where Strategy and Customer Service Meet, Part 1 of 2 with John Goodman, Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC). If you missed the first part, I encourage to listen it was excellent. The 2nd part of podcast we move on to discuss parts of Read More …

A Lean Way of Connecting Supply and Demand

In two recent blog posts, CAP-Do supports Outcome Driven Innovation and Lean Sales Process does not Start at Plan or Build, I discussed how companies that apply Lean to Sales and Marketing think incorrectly in terms of PDCA versus CAP-Do. In summary, we need to change to an outcome based approach and for a Lean Read More …

CAP-Do supports Outcome Driven Innovation

In a recent blog post, Lean Sales Process does not start at Plan or Build, I discussed how companies that apply Lean to Sales and Marketing think incorrectly in terms of PDCA versus Cap-Do. In the post, I stated: When we utilize the traditional cycle of PDCA, we start with Plan. We form a hypothesis Read More …

Where Strategy and Customer Service Meet, Part 1 of 2

What we find is there are a lot of buzz words Big Data, Net Promoter Score, Chief Customer Officer or Voice of Customer. A lot of those are used as simplistic code words when in fact the entire process is much, much more complicated than that. For instance, in most organizations Voice of Customer is Read More …

Marketing Campaign Project Map

For quite a few years, I have used this outline to organize marketing campaigns, create web pages or so-called squeeze pages and many other marketing efforts. I first ran across this outline in the book, The Marketing Playbook: Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Lead in Any Market by Jahn Zagula and Richard Read More …