Issues in Transitioning to a Lean Sales Environment

 Does Your Sales Compensation Incentivize the Correct Lean Behavior?  Does Your Sales Compensation Incentivize the Correct Agile Behavior? Is there a Secret Sauce Transitioning from Solo to Team Selling? PDF Download   Co-authors, Jeffrey Liker and David Meir, of The Toyota Way Fieldbook defined the Supplier Partnering Hierarchy of Toyota that consisted of 7 steps. I have always Read More …

The Agile Process According to ChiefMartec

Scott Brinker is the author of the book Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster, and More Innovative.  Scott’s goal was to help marketers at all levels — even those with no technical background or inclination — adapt marketing management to the wild and wonderful whirlwind of a world now dominated by software. Read More …

The Real Story on How to Keep Jobs at Home

The Dynamic, Collaborative Management Model That Saved a U.S. Manufacturing City SECOND SHIFT: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement (McGraw-Hill; August 2016; HC, $30.00;) details the complexities of an automotive industry rapidly transforming due to external economic and market forces; a community reliant upon a local manufacturing facility scheduled to be added to Read More …

Addressing the Feedback Loops in OODA

I have spent the last several days searching for a YouTube video, information that discusses the feedback loops that are contained in this drawing of the OODA Loop: It seems when most people discuss OODA,  they spend most of their time talking about Observe-Orient-Decide-Act. Often they compare the process to PDCA which I disagree with Read More …

Telling Visual Stories

Dan Roam has a unique way of developing a storyline and in fact, one of the most practical. Dan Roam is the author of the international bestseller, The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, the most popular visual-thinking business book of all time. You could credit Dan as putting the Read More …