The Linkage of Customer Value

Customer Value seems old hat and so un-marketing like in this day of Social Media, Analytics, Inbound-Outbound, Trending and Buzz. However, the successful companies are not necessarily writing about marketing they are doing it and relying on a simple term, Customer Value. As Christine says, These are not flash-in-the-pan companies. They are the likes of Read More …

Shorten Marketing Cycle, Incr. Lifecycle

Why Lean Marketing? Because it is the Future of Marketing The Value Stream Map is a lean tool to analyze the value stream. Value Stream Mapping techniques involves mapping each step of a process looking for waste and on improving the total time from the beginning to the end of the entire stream. One of Read More …

The Lean Thinker on Value Enhancement

The guest on the Business901 podcast was Adam Zak (@leanthinker), founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adam Zak Executive Search and an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management consulting; financial and operations management; and talent acquisition. During the podcast I was able to ask questions Read More …

Lean Marketing Creates Knowledge for the Customer

Why Lean Marketing? Because it is the Future of Marketing Many people visualize their marketing cycle through the use of funnel thinking on how it narrows down to the actual purchase of the product. I have advocated the use of the Value Stream Marketing concept in a much similar fashion. However, I take a much Read More …

The Lean (Agile) Marketing Manifesto

In February 2001, 17 software developers met at a ski resort in Snowbird, Utah, to discuss lightweight development methods. They published the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” to define the approach now known as agile software development. I believe that Lean is the Future of Marketing and one of the main reasons is the development Read More …

Faster, Better, Cheaper is the Norm. What are you doing different!

That’s right the old Mantra; Faster, Better, Cheaper is the norm nowadays. It really is not separating you from the crowd, it is only the average. How are you going to build Market Share? How are you going to be increase revenue? When you are only average? People start utilizing methodologies like Lean and Six Read More …