Lean Marketing and Service Dominant Logic

Lean Sales and Marketing is just not another extension of Lean into another area of business. if you think that way, you will be marred into product dominant thinking. You must recognize Lean as the pathway into  Service Dominant Logic Thinking (Vargo and Lusch (2006)). Lean is used as the vehicle to deliver effective and Read More …

On Demand Prototyping?

We may not be that far away from sitting next to a customer and "sketching" a 3D interactive prototype as we discuss his needs. The heck with the tablets back to pen and paper -sort of!   Electronics aren’t just for experts and engineers. Kids and amateurs should be able to play, too, which is Read More …

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 …