Developing a Lean A3 Marketing Plan

  Creating a marketing plan on an A3, or a single sheet of paper in not much of a novelty. However, if you think for a moment about A3 reports and the traditional Lean Problems Solving A3, you will see a similarity on how I have organized the A3 Marketing Plan. In A3 Problem Solving, Read More …

The Innovation A3

I have been a big advocate of the work that Jeanne Liedtka, a Professor of Management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, has done. Several years ago, I had the pleasure interviewing her co-author Tim Ogilvie on the Business901 Podcast, Transcription with Podcast link:  Using Design Thinking for Growth. I have used Read More …

Two Heads Are Better Than One Right?

If Larger Groups make Better Decisions, What happened to the Government? Two heads are better than one right? And if so, three is better than two and so on. Ultimately, the U.S. Government might be the best decision body in the world? Of course, most of doubt this and on the other side of the Read More …

Lean A3s should not Provide Solutions

I seldom have trouble getting buy-in for most companies on developing the left side of the A3. More precisely the planning side where we define the problem, define the gap with a stated target condition, address the point of concern and seek root cause. Speaking generally, most companies adapt to this thinking and especially if Read More …

Learn Lean Sales and Marketing thru A3s

Available December 1 – Pre-Release Pricing: Applying Lean to Sales and Marketing thru A3s Learn to create and use A3s in Sales and Marketing for problem-solving, discovering opportunities and sustaining implementations. Transverse the Marketing Gateway of SDCA-PDCA-EDCA. When most Lean Organizations try to introduce Lean to sales and marketing they seldom take the time to develop Read More …