Profiling the customer by knowledge gaps

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 Buffer Profiles and Level Determination or in the marketing sense, profiling the customer by your knowledge gaps. Once the strategically replenished positions are determined, the target levels of those buffers Read More …

Is Orlicky MRP relevant today Think DDMRP

Is Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning the blueprint for the future and revitalization of formal planning in the 21st Century? Some people think so as Carol Ptak and Chad Smith were asked to co-author the new Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E. But more impressive are the full houses of practitioners that Carol and Chad are Read More …

Lean Marketing House – 28 Day Program

These webinars will discuss utilizing the Lean Marketing House Concept and how to apply Continuous Improvement to your sales and marketing process. I am offering from August 25th thru the 28th, a 25% discount on the next session. That session will start on September 8th.  Each Participant will receive the E-Books: Lean Marketing House, Marketing Read More …

Answers to Sustainability

I was participating in a discussion on LinkedIn and came across an article, How to Sustain Front Line Process Improvement Activities from the Harvard Business Review and like most of us, if it says sustainability we take a look. It has to be the most difficult part of any continuous improvement process. I found the Read More …

Lean or Six Sigma which fork in the road do you take?

People will see my comments floating around the Internet on the subject of Lean Six Sigma. I am not an expert and probably take too much liberty in the application of them to even proceed but it was important to me to post my view. There will always be a strong debate between Lean and Read More …

Mind Map on the Five Temptations of a CEO

This is part 3 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 Temptations of a CEO, 10th Read More …