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Lean Sales and Marketing is just not another extension of Lean into another area of business. if you think that way, you will be marred into product dominant thinking. You must recognize Lean as the pathway into Service Dominant Logic Thinking (Vargo and Lusch (2006)). Lean is used as the vehicle to deliver effective and Read More …
Yesterday, I discussed why we must concentrate on the quality of the leads versus automation and increasing input (Lean Sales and Marketing approach to Productivity). Many organizations choose to spend most of their time and dollars on increasing the input, creating more opportunities more fresh bodies, instead of looking at their work in process. I Read More …
Deming always instructed us that if we improved quality, productivity increased. The economist’s definition of productivity is Productivity = Output / Input If quality is poor, then the output will be less to the extent that bad-quality items exist. The bad-quality items are still around and must be scrapped or reworked. The cost of this Read More …
John Hunter has been enlisted to write the Deming Blog and discussed this speech in great detail in a recent blog post, Speech by Dr. Deming to Japanese Business Leaders in 1950. The Deming Blog is a newly created effort by the Deming Institute. John is my guest next week on the Business901 podcast. Clayton Read More …
One of the first inclinations people have about using Lean in Marketing is the term Voice of Customer. From Wikipedia: Voice of Customer (VOC) is a term used in business and Information to describe the in-depth process of capturing a customer’s expectations, preferences and aversions. Specifically, the Voice of the Customer is a market research Read More …
Should Lean Marketers be using the Wanamaker Principle or the Pareto Principle in your Customer Retention programs? John Wanamaker said: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” I have written about this on several occasions on how this is a good thing, not a bad Read More …