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 …

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 …

What does a Customer want?

Do you remember the movie What Women Want? After Mel Gibson slipped and cracked his head it led him to be able to hear the inner thoughts of women. It gave him some additional power but how he took that to his advantage well that’s the story. So what does a Customer want? It could Read More …