What Similarities Do You See Between Action Research and Lean?

In my practice of Lean Marketing, I differ from the thought of Traditional, even Agile Marketing approaches. The more traditional methods of segmentation and appealing to the general masses narrowing people down through some sort of funnel or stages has never been what I might call my style. Even the Agile and yes Lean lingo Read More …

Using Lean To Create Marketing Action Research

A marketing plan is not anything more than a hypothesis. It is the ability to learn from them and build on each conversation is what makes a plan plausible. Marketing Action Research is a step to developing an unbiased analysis of your marketing environment and focuses not just on practical information collection, but on analyzing Read More …

Level of Evidence in Your Business Decisions?

What level of information do you use in your organization to make decisions? Are there a few simple steps that you have found useful to filter, improve your information?   Levels of evidence (sometimes called hierarchy of evidence) are assigned to studies based on the methodological quality of their design, validity, and applicability to patient care. Read More …

Finding, Refining & Assessing Your Focus

We have all heard sayings like this before, “Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.” —Edward de Bono. Problem identification is the first and most important part of solving a problem. In research, before starting a project, it is important to do much of the same thing. Read More …

What is your Ladder of Feedback?

I was thinking of simplifying the thought of direct feedback into 4 or 5 words/steps.  Developed by Wilson in 2003, and expanded by Ritchhart, I found this line of thought interesting but there was something I felt missing. Granted this is for education and mostly derived from a student-teacher relationship.   Ron Ritchhart’s Creating Cultures of Read More …