Shrinking Middle Class of Sales Accounts

Part of The Lean Minute Collection on YouTube A short open-ended discussion about the shrinking middle class of sales accounts. Are you seeing the same thing? Place a comment on YouTube.  CAP-Do (More Info): What makes CAP-Do so attractive is that it assumes we do not have the answers. It allows us to create a Read More …

Collaborate with Outside Organizations to Boost Your Sales Efforts

Beth Comstock, CMO at General Electric, urges all businesses to partner with organizations to experiment, test, and develop opportunities. She says everyone has a different form of creativity and perspective, and now is the time to create a space for collaboration, especially because it does not have to cost much time and money. For more visit, Read More …

Operational Excellence Stack

This is a collection of 26 – Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Operational Excellence A collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions that centered on Operational Excellence with a bit of Hoshin Kanri in the mix. Several people included are Art Bryne, Adam Zak, Ari Weinzweig and 23 others. Stacks are Read More …

Can a Lean Company become a Learning Org

When scaling companies, I always followed the thought that you needed core competencies that could be performed as standard work along with incremental improvement into your markets or through your product/services. However, this is just not about becoming more effective and efficient around your core; it is about exploring the edges of your product/services or Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing Book Overview

Part of The Lean Minute Collection on YouTube This is a quick overview of a few of the books both old and new that have been written on applying continuous improvement (Lean and Six Sigma) in Sales and Marketing. CAP-Do (More Info): What makes CAP-Do so attractive is that it assumes we do not have Read More …

Estimating Your Sale Cycles

As most know, I think a few of the mapping methods used in the process fields are somewhat ludicrous when applied to sales and marketing. One of my favorites, of course, is Value Stream Mapping. It is, one of the applications that I see people try and try again to use thinking it can be Read More …