Lean Marketing, the Team Coordinator

In a previous post, Identifying your Lean sales and marketing teams, I discussed the other roles in the Lean Sales and Marketing Process. This is part of the SALES PDCA framework that we use before starting the PDCA IMPROVEMENT LOOP.  The role of Team Coordinator (TC) is the key person in the Lean Sales and Read More …

Service Dominant Logic does it Apply

In researching Service Dominant Logic (S-D Logic), I found the concept not all that new. I found the catalyst for this interest was the publication of an article by Stephen Vargo and Robert Lusch in a 2004 edition of Journal of Marketing entitled “Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing and later their book,The Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing Team Roles

In a previous post, Identifying your Lean sales and marketing teams, I discussed how to choose the objectives and the team structure to match it. After that, you need to identify the team member roles which I describe below. This is part of the SALES PDCA framework that we use before starting the PDCA IMPROVEMENT Read More …

Your Lean Sales and Marketing Teams

When I use the SALES PDCA approach in Lean Marketing, I emphasize the use of sales and marketing teams. It is one of the underlying principles that is needed. Sales has operated for so many years based on the idea of the individual salesperson calling on “his” accounts and the organization reinforcing this structure through Read More …

Marketing with PDCA eBook released on Business901 Website

Released as an eBook, Marketing with PDCA authored by Joseph T. Dager is now available on the Business901 website. Marketing with PDCA is about managing a value stream using PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act). Using the new SALES PDCA Framework throughout the marketing cycle will provide constant feedback from customers, and can only occur if they are part Read More …

How to build a Sales and Marketing Team

This is a well documented video that was recently posted on the Agile Advice website. It can serve as a refresher or as a starting point on how you should assemble a Lean Sales and Marketing Team. The process that IDEO goes through to innovate a new shopping cart: Could this mantra work on your Read More …