How does your State of Mind alter your Decisions

Dr. Reldan, “Relly,” Nadler was my guest on the Business901 Podcast. Our talked centered on leadership and developing the state of mind for making effective decisions. It is interesting what I learned about our mental models and as a result our everyday decisions.   Dr. Nadler is a leading psychologist and Executive Coach focusing on developing Read More …

SS Marketing releases Audio Program

This is the audio section of the program I use to provide the basis for Customer Value in my Lean Marketing programs.  The series serves as a template for organizations needing to change from a customer satisfaction focus to a customer value focus. It has been deployed in a number of Fortune 100 and Fortune Read More …

How to have a 22–minute Meeting

Great 5 minute video – Lots of fun! Found it via @MindEdgeOnline on Twitter. Meetings can be a huge productivity & time suck. So what if you took out all of the stupid, wasteful stuff and left only the useful parts? Nicole Steinbok explains how to do just that in 9 easy steps. The Poster Read More …

Drucker and Deming = Lean Marketing

Peter Drucker moved management away from the the command and control theories of the past bringing the concept of setting objectives and allowing teams to work toward them to management practices. In Lean Marketing practices, I advocated the use of Value Stream Mapping Process to identify: Customer’s Decision Making Path Sales and Marketing reaction to Read More …

Are you Lean enough to have A3 thinking

I was looking for a primer on A3 to include in my blog and found this IW Best Plants Conference: Developing People with A3 Thinking: In this session at the 2009 IW Best Plants Conference, Jamie Flinchbaugh, Founder and Partner, Lean Learning Center provides a basic primer on A3, outlining its use as a method Read More …

Shorten Marketing Cycle, Incr. Lifecycle

Why Lean Marketing? Because it is the Future of Marketing The Value Stream Map is a lean tool to analyze the value stream. Value Stream Mapping techniques involves mapping each step of a process looking for waste and on improving the total time from the beginning to the end of the entire stream. One of Read More …