Strength Based Approach to Lean and Six Sigma

David Shaked of Almond-Insight  discusses his book, Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement. in a podcast last fall but it was actually the 2nd time David appeared on the podcast. The first time served as a great introduction to me on his Strength Based Approach to Lean and Six Sigma. In Read More …

Outcome-Based Persona

In a recent blog post and several others, Increase your Innovation Capacity: Manage your Sphere of Influence, I contend that the typical tools such as marketing funnels, customer journeys or sales cycles limits us to Goods-dominant logic (GD-logic) thinking and prevents us from viewing from the perspective of Service Dominant Logic (SD-Logic). If that is Read More …

Want to Generate Value hold Strength Based Kaizen Events

You may remember David Shaked of Almond-Insight from a previous Business901 Podcast, Strength–Based Lean and Six Sigma. David just finished his book, Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement and will be my guest next week on the podcast. David is a Master Black Belt formerly with a large global corporation (Johnson Read More …

A Lean approach to Outcome-Based Mapping

In the Outcome-Based Mapping approach, we view the outcomes as the central part of our theme. We recognize that a change of behavior must occur for us to achieve our goals or make the desired impact that wish to obtain. In traditional sales and marketing we can develop the simplest of all marketing funnels based Read More …

Outcome Based Mapping versus a Funnel

I use to believe that marketing funnels, value stream maps, process mapping and to some extent customer journey maps would work in present day sales and marketing processes (Value Stream Mapping should be left on the Shop Floor). I am not saying they won’t, but I have taken a completely different approach over the past Read More …