The traditional marketing outsourcing strategy is that you will find someone or an agency that has done wonders for friends of yours or can produce an outstanding portfolio of accomplishments. You will interview them, and those items of brilliance will be demonstrated. You will hire one, and they will probably deliver outstanding content. You may Read More …
Every act of your Lean sales process is a learning process. This is why Lean works in development, aka Lean StartupTM, why Lean works in operations and why Lean works in sales. I have no idea why process consultants continue to try to force fit Lean into the sales and marketing process from a standpoint Read More …
Show a little respect for your customers and don’t use value stream mapping in the sales process. The problem is mapping becomes a prediction of what someone might do. We typically take that “prediction” and that “might” and turn them into a guide and should do. We end up trying to manage our customer through Read More …
Lean Sales Methods allow us to start adapting and understanding our customer needs during the sales learning cycles. We no longer can think about control and manipulation that occurs in the traditional sales funnel. Our focus has been backwards when we have tried to improve sales from the inside-out. We must learn to focus our Read More …
In a recent podcast, Scenario Thinking the Next Big Thing, with George Wright, co-author of Scenario Thinking: Practical Approaches to the Future, I asked, “When we are looking at different alternatives to the future, we paint a picture with scenarios? George: Yes, the scenarios are descriptions of the future often constructed by management teams. They Read More …
Terri Griffith in her book,The Plugged-In Manager provides an easy-to-understand framework for plugging in, explained by these three core practices: Stop-Look-Listen: What does your data say? What do you already know that will help you with this project? Mixing: How do you balance your available resources? Sharing: How can you achieve better results by integrating Read More …