How Many Good Ideas are Lost because of a Poor Plan?

I feel like we spend a great deal of time re-naming or re-packing different processes and methodologies. Half of our arguments between these methods do little to improve either process. It is a shame because most have a lot to learn from the other. I can hardly think it will change; we have been doing Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing works because of Leader Standard Work

People struggle with Lean in sales and marketing because they don’t believe that many of the fundamental concepts of Lean, such as Standard Work can apply to the S & M discipline.  If you review the slide shows under the Lean Engagement Team section on Slide Share, I think you will find how much they Read More …

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 …