Why is Lean Sales & Marketing the Final Frontier for the Lean Enterprise? – Free Webinar

Webinar Registration Free Webinar…Lean Sales & Marketing: Title: Lean Sales & Marketing: The Final Frontier for the Lean Enterprise? Date: Friday, May 6, 2011 Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT Cost: No fee. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/536606993 Why is Lean Sales & Marketing the Final Frontier for the Lean Enterprise? Marketing activities such as developing promotion programs, branding, Read More …

Project Effort – Value evaluation Tool

This is fun tool from the Forrester Website that is based upon the book, Empowered. In Empowered, the authors demonstrate how companies can successfully transform their business through the employees called HEROes (highly empowered and resourceful operatives). But they do not stop with just employees they also share ideas on how to leverage empowered customers. Read More …

Another Gemba Talk w Womack

Listen to Dr. Womack discuss Lean in the 2nd part of a 2 part podcast. Part 1 of the podcast was A Gemba Talk with Womack on Lean. We discussed his new book Gemba Walks and many of the problems in implementing Lean. Just the intro and ending was repeated, about 2 minutes on each Read More …

Can anyone truly understand and empathize with another?

By leading the Americans in his audience at TEDxPSU step by step through the thought process, sociologist Sam Richards sets an extraordinary challenge: can they understand — not approve of, but understand — the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent? And by extension, can anyone truly understand and empathize with another? This is very powerful video Read More …

Why Lean Marketing – the 5th P of Marketing

Lean Sales and Marketing is driven by several different factors with the one explained in this video being the most important. If you want to see what is at the core, watch this video. Related Information: Lean Marketing Creates Knowledge for the Customer The Pull in Lean Marketing The 7 step Lean Process of Marketing Read More …

An introduction to an iterative Lean Marketing Cycle?

I believe in an iterative or Agile type of a process in sales and marketing. I think that the typical marketing funnel (Kill the Sales and Marketing Funnel) that sets the framework and deliverables at the start of a cycle is outdated. The primary reason is that it assumes that sales and marketing is a Read More …