How do you start in the Membership Economy

You just don’t give this to the VP over here that’s been 20 years. How do I create this within my organization? I know there’s going to be a cultural shift, but how do you start? -jd Excerpt from next week’s Business901 Podcast: Robbie Baxter: I think you’re right. You don’t just give it to Read More …

A Reason For Extending Your Sales Cycles

One of the common message these days about sales cycles is that you are not invited to the table till 60%of the sales cycles is over. Of course, ideally we would want to be in earlier in the cycle and be part of finding the solution with the customer. All that co-creation, collaboration and trust-based Read More …

Should You have Configuration Management

An excerpt from the Podcast and Transcription: Project Thinking In Configuration Management Joe:   Should every part of an organization have a configuration management system then? Jon Quigley: It should have some kind of change. It should identify the things that matter down the stream or that have to be coordinated and the things that impact Read More …

Sales- What are you asking yourself?

Are you waiting for your next performance review? Most salespeople get one every quarter and sometimes every week in the form of a commission check. However, do you spend time self-evaluating yourself? Do you have a structured method to take an objective look at yourself? Here is a short list of questions derived from a Read More …

In Lean Marketing would Pull be the same as Demand?

When viewing pull in Lean Sales and Marketing, I think most people get it wrong. They think only about demand and obtaining a new customer. I think demand is something we use to have back in the 90’s, I suppose. When I think about pull, I think more in the terms of creating a customer Read More …

A Framework for Building Collaboration

We collaborate externally and internally in our organization. It is something that we do to get things done. However, in this strange world we live in we often may collaborate one day and compete the next. Internally, we may fight another department for a needed resource. If you think we don’t, just sit in at Read More …