Six Sigma and Lean Consultant Marketing

Budgets are FROZEN, but their thinking is not! If that is the case, challenge your customers or prospects thinking. Clear, concise questions on assumptions that you have on their NEEDS(your opportunity) will unfreeze a lot of budgets. How do you know what their needs may be? You are calling on people in your area of Read More …

Display your Lean Six Sigma Storyboard

WCBF will be approving a limited number of Storyboard/Poster presentations for display at WCBF’s 4th Annual Global Lean, Six Sigma and Business Improvement Summit, taking place at the Swan and Dolphin Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando , October 14-15 2009. Presenters will need to be available to discuss their storyboards on both days of the Read More …

Lean Marketing Concentrate on Mura & Muri

Recently, after reviewing the Duct tape Marketing Blog, I was thinking about what John had said: Sometimes the Secret to Marketing is Just Being There. I wholeheartedly agreed with him, and wonder why there is such a lack of consistency in most people’s marketing, including my own. Most people that are familiar with Lean understand Read More …

Finishing the Poka-Yoke Job

We have found the root cause but how do we correct it? The correction may seem easy at this point but how do we know it is just not a band-aid. My preference is to go back to the Fishbone diagram and use the same method we use in discovering the root cause to discover Read More …

Twitter, the Lean Six Sigma Way of Communicating

Is Twitter a waste of time? It can be without using the correct tools and measuring your effectiveness. But the benefits of using Twitter are just too great to ignore. Lean Six Sigma Marketers should start utilizing the tactics Twitter permits: Refined searches Immediate feedback on issues and problems Instantaneous Communication Data Accumulation Hundreds of Read More …

OpEx, It’s about People not Tools

I had Robert Stapp of OP•EX Direct Results Inc. on the Business901 podcast and in part 2 of this podcast, we had a discussion on operational excellence. He discussed several ways to leverage Lean and Six Sigma in achieving excellence. The lesson I learned from the podcast was that these were not the only tools Read More …