Four Dimensions of Digital Service

Next Week’s podcast guest, Jeff  Sussna founder of Ingineering.IT, facilitates Adaptive IT through teaching, coaching, and strategic design. He is the author of a new book Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy. An excerpt from the podcast: Joe: It’s really kind of a digital service type of atmosphere that you create. I Read More …

The Intangibles Will Create Your Success

Are you delivering knowledge to your customer in each and every step of the sales process? Do you have SMART Goals outlined to follow and assist your customer in making the decision he invited you to assist with? When we model the sales activity, we get into very specific kinds of interactions that are critical Read More …

Are You Trying To Improve Customer Influence?

Listening to the customer is giving the customer status and importance and sends the message that their opinion is worthwhile. If you take the time for customers to see problems for themselves and think through solutions, they will more than likely work with you in implementing and fixing the problems should they occur. It is Read More …

In Lean Marketing would Pull be the same as Demand?

When viewing pull in Lean Sales and Marketing, I think most people get it wrong. They think only about demand and obtaining a new customer. I think demand is something we use to have back in the 90’s, I suppose. When I think about pull, I think more in the terms of creating a customer Read More …

A Lean Interpretation of Christensen’s Talk

I base my Lean Thinking on 3 principles. Standardization, Improvement, and Exploration. The little “i” of innovation is provided through SDCA and PDCA. Standard Work (SDCA) creates a can-do attitude and frees up time for problem-solving. Applying PDCA, allows you to “see” opportunities for improvement and leverages the resources in your environment. I like to Read More …

Evaluate a Sales or Service Control Point

In a recent podcast with Evan Leybourn (Related Podcast and Transcription: Agile Business Management), we had a discussion about Project Closure. In the past I thought it was a good thing to do. It ties into my most recent work. We have been discussing projects in general and how project management has changed. Especially from Read More …