Call it Building a Lean Sales and Marketing Machine

David Skok, a five time serial entrepreneur turned VC, at Matrix Partners presented this at a HubSpot Webinar last week together with Mike Volpe, the VP of Marketing at HubSpot.This video is 60 minutes long and well worth the time. A little promotional for Hubspot but in my opinion Hubspot is a quality product and Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing Presentation at ASQ Columbus

This is my presentation on Lean Sales and Marketing at the ASQ Columbus Spring Conference. The notes, I used are with the slides. I have to admit though, that after the first slide, I never looked at the notes at all. I also included link to download the entire PDF. The notes are a little Read More …

Continuously Improving Tools for Continuous Improvement is a tagline that fits

I find the Systems2win Company a fascinating story. They provide a standardized set of easy-to-use Excel templates for business process improvement primarily for the use in the Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. The range and the depth of detail and training in these templates are truly remarkable. Their tag line is “Continuously improving tools for Read More …

Has Knowledge Management disguised itself as Lean Marketing?

It is not a disguise it is reality. Your marketing department should be investing many of their resources in capturing and building a structure for knowledge management. It is the core competence of your organization. If you look at the sole purpose of a Lean Marketing department it is disseminating pertinent information to the customer Read More …

The Ultimate Sales and Marketing Tool

Lean Sales and Marketing is built upon the philosophy that there has been a subtle shift to knowledge as the way to engage, develop and retain your customer base. The sales and marketing team must act as a vehicle to cultivate ideas not only within their four walls but more importantly from their customers and Read More …

ASQ Columbus Spring Conference will host Marketing with Lean

The theme of the ASQ Columbus Spring Conference 2011 is Leadership through Quality. After enjoying morning and after-lunch key-note speakers, attendees will have the opportunity to choose from both morning and afternoon tracks covering more than 14 different topics to include Marketing with Lean and I will be presenting it! The conference is held at Read More …