Lean Marketing House ebook

Lean Marketing is the Future of Marketing Released as an ebook, Lean Marketing House is now available on the website. “When you first hear the terms Lean and Value Stream most of our minds think about manufacturing processes and waste. Putting the words marketing behind both of them is neither creative nor effective. But the Read More …

Drucker and Deming = Lean Marketing

Peter Drucker moved management away from the the command and control theories of the past bringing the concept of setting objectives and allowing teams to work toward them to management practices. In Lean Marketing practices, I advocated the use of Value Stream Mapping Process to identify: Customer’s Decision Making Path Sales and Marketing reaction to Read More …

Lean thinking on Value Enhancement eBook

This is a transcription of the Business901 podcast, The Lean Thinker on Value Enhancement (Lean) with 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. 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 …

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 …