Learning from your Customers

This is part of my blog series on using the principles of Demand Drive MRP and its five primary components. This particular blog focuses around Strategic Inventory Positioning or in the marketing sense, positioning your organization to learn from your customers. In DDMRP, Strategic Inventory Positioning The first question of effective inventory management is not Read More …

Games are invading the real world

Games are invading the real world — and the runaway popularity of Farmville and Guitar Hero is just the beginning, says Jesse Schell. At the DICE Summit, he makes a startling prediction: a future where 1-ups and experience points break “out of the box” and into every part of our daily lives. PS3 Games – Read More …

Games may be your only chance to attract the best and brightest talent

Games have changed the way we play and the way we work. In the  blog post Salesforce.com’s Chief Scientist on Why Gamification is the Future of Work, it says, Rangaswami outlines how and why gamification will shape the future of work. As a new generation of knowledge workers land in jobs at organizations big and Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing slide deck from Agile Cincinnati

At Agile Cincinnati last week, I had the opportunity to present the Lean Sales and Marketing presentation, It’s not your Grandmother’s Lean Anymore! The reason I picked this title is that so many identify Lean with waste reduction. I view Lean and PDCA from the aspect of knowledge creation. The first part of my slide Read More …

Mind Map of the Five Dysfunctions of a Team

This is part 4 of a 5 part afternoon series depicting the mind maps that I have created on the books of Patrick Lencioni. His website and company, The Table Group offers additional information on these subjects. This mind map was constructed during the listening of the book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Read More …

All of us Marketers What is the framework

A recent Blog post, We’re all marketers now in the McKinsey Quarterly discusses how engaging customers today requires commitment from the entire company and a redefined marketing organization. They say marketers have been adjusting to this new era of engagement through increased Web expertise and have simply found that to be not enough. In a Read More …