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How do you incorporate Lean into your strategic thinking? In Sales and Marketing, I use a process very similar to The Balanced Scorecard for a visual indicator to make sure that I am doing a little “Lean” in each category. The percentage of each depends on the individual company. Join the conversation on LinkedIn What questions Read More …
Should research become a larger part of the marketing budget? Should marketing research drive innovation or should innovation drive marketing? What happens in your company? Though most of us are past that idea of a silver bullet, the viral marketing campaign still exists in many minds. I am not saying they don’t happen but just Read More …
How do you check your projects/campaigns/experiments before launching? Impact Mapping is a tool that Gojko Adzic introduced to me in a book several years back. In it’s simplest form, I have found it to be an excellent way to check for alignment, and clarity when launching and committing to a project or marketing campaign/experiment. It is what Read More …
We are all enamored, with are tools, to include the latest canvases and maps. We always seek to find this deeper understanding or epiphany from creating a buyer persona, customer journey or stakeholder maps. These tools, though quite useful, are all strategic type tools. For me, I like to go in the weeds and work Read More …
What is not distributed now will become distributed. – Unknown If we believe the above statement, what will our sales force look like in the future? How will it be distributed? William Gibson is credited with the well-known saying, “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” I would attest that our present sales efforts in most instances are to Read More …
FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT: If you create a great customer onboarding experience, you more than likely will have a great customer. When working with companies, I put a great deal of emphasis in this area. I think doing it well creates growth opportunities and doing it poorly is a significant hindrance to growth. If we create that Read More …