Sales and Marketing are not Product Development or Innovation

I find it interesting to watch as people try to take their product development skills and innovation tactics and apply them to Sales and Marketing. I will admit there are a “few” similarities but what works for development and innovation does not necessarily work for established brands.  Even when you go to market with new Read More …

Lean Construction with Rubrich

Larry Rubrich of WCM Associates LLC has over 35 years of experience in engineering and manufacturing in the automotive, industrial, and consumer product areas. He has held the positions of product engineering, chief product engineer, product manager, customer service manager, area manufacturing manager, continuous improvement manager, and plant manager with fortune 100 corporations. Larry spent Read More …

Jobs to be Done – Explained by Dr. Deming in 1950

John Hunter has been enlisted to write the Deming Blog and discussed this speech in great detail in a recent blog post, Speech by Dr. Deming to Japanese Business Leaders in 1950. The Deming Blog is a newly created effort by the Deming Institute. John is my guest next week on the Business901 podcast. Clayton Read More …

Lean Marketing listens to the Voice of the Vital Few

One of the first inclinations people have about using Lean in Marketing is the term Voice of Customer. From Wikipedia: Voice of Customer (VOC) is a term used in business and Information to describe the in-depth process of capturing a customer’s expectations, preferences and aversions. Specifically, the Voice of the Customer is a market research Read More …

Customer Retention Assessment

The typical company will focus on growth by emphasizing customer acquisition. However, market share growth is highly dependent on been able to retain customers. In that area, all that is needed is to find the source or the reason why they defect and then slow the rate of that defection. I doubt that you will Read More …

Interview with Joe Pine on Infinite Possibility

Joe Pine, lead author of Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier, shares his point of view on the convergence of the digital and real worlds and what businesses can do to leverage opportunities found in the Multiverse. Joe Pine had 2 new books out last summer, Infinite Possibility and The Experience Economy, Read More …