Managing Customer Value
“Demand-Driven manufacturing is a manufacturing requires a fundamental shift form the centrality of inventory to the centrality of demand. To be successful, company must be able to sense and adapt to market changes.” – This is from the Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E.written by my recent podcast guest Carol Ptak and Chad Smith of the Read More …
From the McGraw-Hill Press Release: Social Media. Brand Collaboration. Content aggregation. Microblogging. User-generated content. And the list goes on… It’s been said that business is in the midst of the customer-centric marketing revolution—a trend which points toward business treating brands less like “property” and more like an extension of an organization’s values. The upshot is Read More …
This is a Guest blog Post by Dr. Eric Reidenbach, the Director of the Six Sigma Marketing Institute. I think Dr. Reidenbach’s thoughts are right on target. We keep basing Continuous Improvement efforts in areas that are making little difference to the bottom line. Most manufacturers constraints are in the marketplace and till we address Read More …
Are you creating inbound marketing materials and strategies that are customer centric? Or, are you a company that creates outbound material that are forced on customers and as a result driven from the inside out. The new wave of marketing is becoming not only more inbound, but the stakes are getting raised higher and higher Read More …