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 …

Value Network Participants; Who are they?

There was an interesting post on the Noop.NL blog the other day, The Customer Value Problem: Ditch the Value Stream! He stated: The value stream is a potentially harmful metaphor. I think we should replace value streams with value networks, and customer value with stakeholder value. Again and again I hear people referring to “value Read More …

Is Co-Creation a Trend to Watch?

I had a recent blog post of mine, Value Stream Mapping your Marketing that was tweeted and mentioned that it was 6 years out of date. The reason being is that it failed to mention Service Dominate Logic. Heck, the truth of the matter is that I never heard of SDI. As it turned out Read More …

who has influenced my thinking on Flow

Who are your most influential people on a particular subject? I started thinking of this after interviewing Don Reinertsen Tuesday’s Podcast, on the subject of Flow. In my mind, the founding father on this subject was Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (notice in the middle of his last name the word ZEN). I can remember first reading his Read More …

Value is a Relative Concept

Most companies when considering the value they offer to the marketplace only consider the value that their customers or buyers receive. Your company‘s value proposition is actually a two part function. One, is how buyers evaluate your product/service and two, how non-buyers evaluate your product/service offering. If you lack the understanding of how non-buyers rate Read More …