Lean Marketing Lab Opens!

The virtual world of the Lean Marketing Lab will open its doors (gateway) on Monday. November 21, 2011. This online community has been created to further the cause of bringing continuous improvement to the sales and marketing community. The foundational work is in Lean but you will find a flavor of Service Design and Design Read More …

The SDCA Cycle Description for a Lean Engagement Team

This presentation is an overview on how to implement SDCA (Plan – Do – Check – Act) in the field of Lean Sales and Marketing. It  includes an outline for standard work of this cycle and an embedded video with Dr. Michael Balle, the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise discussing Standard work in a Read More …

The PDCA Cycle Description for a Lean Engagement Team

This presentation is an overview on how to implement PDCA (Plan – Do – Check – Act) in the field of Lean Sales and Marketing. It  includes an outline for standard work of that cycle and an embedded video with Dr. Michael Balle, the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise discussing the Power of Check Read More …

The EDCA Cycle Description for a Lean Engagement Team

This presentation is an overview on how to implement EDCA (Explore – Do – Check – Act) in the field of Lean Sales and Marketing. It  includes an outline for standard work, an embedded video that discusses the book, This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases and reference to another book, , Read More …

The Resilience of PDCA

A few weeks ago I wrote the blog post, The Death of PDCA that stated: “following traditional Lean thinking leads us to focus our efforts of continuous improvement internally versus externally”. Knowing my interest in the Evolution of PDCA, Karen Martin a well-regarded Lean consultant and co-author of The Kaizen Event Planner sent me Evolution Read More …

Lean A3 for Lean EDCA-PDCA-SDCA

SALES PDCA is the framework I use for the process that takes place in the customer sales and marketing cycle. It is a standard PDCA cycle except the SALES part of the framework is where the sales team gets its directions and coaching from the team coordinator and value stream manager. Within the actual PDCA Read More …