Xerox Operational Excellence Program

My guest on the Business901 Podcast was Tricia Bhattacharya. She authored the Guide to Operational Excellence that Xerox makes available to their print customers. It introduces a five-step plan to help in-plants remove waste like overproduction and idle time. The five steps are: understand the goal, measure the current state, analyze data, develop a plan, Read More …

Quality Conversations…The Global Voice of Quality

I am the guest today on Quality Conversations hosted by Steve Wilson where we will discuss Applying Lean or Six Sigma to Marketing. the call-in number is (646) 200-3898. Quality Conversations, serves as a platform for communicating the best and brightest strategies, methods and tools for all those interested in improving quality and business process Read More …

Profiting from Customer Value

I had the pleasure this past week of interviewing the co-author of the book Strategy from the Outside In, Christine Moorman for an upcoming Business901 Podcast. Christine is the T. Austin Finch, Sr. Professor and founder of The CMO Survey at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. She stated that many strategies such has Read More …

Value Stream Marketing and 5Cs Driving Marketing Share Webinar Series

The Six Sigma Marketing Institute in conjunction with Business901 has developed a 6 part webinar series committed to showing a Value Centered approach to creating and driving market share. We will outline the principle of the 5Cs of Driving Market Share and discuss several case studies to include how a wireless telecom provider used the Read More …

Why Lean Marketing? Because it is the Future of Marketing

For the marketing people, a lean presentation is a good time to sit back and relax because its application has absolutely no applicability to them. Their probably right, marketing people are creative, right brained thinkers with a tendency to think they are the only ones to look at the big picture. Sure they understand metrics Read More …

Six Sigma Marketing introduces 5 Cs of Driving Market Share Webinar Series

The Six Sigma Marketing Institute in conjunction with Business901 has developed a 6 part webinar series committed to showing a Value Centered approach to creating and driving market share. We will outline the principle of the 5Cs of Driving Market Share and discuss several case studies to include how a wireless telecom provider used the Read More …