Achieving Best in Market thru Six Sigma Marketing, eBook Release

The Best in Market eBook was written in response to what Dr. Eric Reidenbach has experienced in creating and measuring value, the best leading indicator of market share growth. The book is aimed at Quality personnel including Lean and Six Sigma practitioners as well as Marketing professionals. Best in Market details a process for assessing Read More …

Value Stream Marketing – Improve your Cycle Time

Many people believe that to apply Value Stream Marketing using Lean Techniques, it is about removing waste. Eliminating waste is one of the Guiding Principles of Value Stream Marketing but you must make some fundamental improvements in your marketing cycle before a pull marketing system will work. Value Stream Marketing (VSM) is about having a Read More …

Lean Thinking in the Office and Services

Drew Locher was my guest on the Business901 podcast and our conversation centered on applying Lean to the Office and Service sectors. Drew has been working to implement business strategies since 1986 and I am amazed at his ability to distinguish between novel ideas and ones that are just a horse of a different color. Read More …

Developing a Minimum Viable Product

From Wikpedia: In product development, the Minimum Viable Product or MVP is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized by Eric Ries for web applications. A Minimum Viable Product has just those features (and no more) that allows the product to be deployed. The product is Read More …

5 Steps to Lean Six Sigma Marketing Success

An overview on applying Lean Six Sigma to the marketing process. Many people question whether you can apply Lean and Six Sigma to the marketing process. I think the question may be: Is your marketing team disciplined enough? Related Posts: The Pull in Lean Marketing Six Sigma Marketing Lessons from Eric Reidenbach

Problem Solving the Core of Lean

My guest on the Business901 podcast was Tracey Richardson, president of Teaching Lean Inc.. She has over 22 years of experience in Toyota methodologies including: Lean Problem Solving, Quality Circles, Lean Manufacturing tools, Standardized Work, Job Instruction Training, Toyota Production System, Toyota Way Values, Culture Development, Visualization (Workplace Management Systems), Continuous Improvement (Kaizen), Meeting Facilitation/Teamwork, Read More …