Value is a Relative Concept

Most companies when considering the value they offer to the marketplace only consider the value that their customers or buyers receive. Your company‘s value proposition is actually a two part function. One, is how buyers evaluate your product/service and two, how non-buyers evaluate your product/service offering. If you lack the understanding of how non-buyers rate Read More …

3 ways the brain creates meaning

Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas? [iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/wPFA8n7goio” align=”center” mode=”normal” autoplay=”no” maxwidth=”500″ grow=”yes”] Tom Wujec is a Fellow at Autodesk, Read More …

A Look at Innovation, a Different Angle

This is one of the few books that I not only listened to it, but afterwards purchased the hard copy.Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others is simply a good book. The author of Borrowing Brilliance, David Kord Murray, has an impressive résumé. Not only is he Read More …

Lean your Marketing by Dominating with Customer Value

I have the opportunity to offer this book on my website at a low introductory price of $14.99. Dominating Markets with Value will show you how value driven, nationally known organizations have harnessed the power of customer value analysis through a systematic and logical process of customer value management. The book provides an approach to Read More …

Mapping differs in Lean Marketing

In the Lean Marketing concept Value Streams differ from the more traditional approaches found in other Value Stream Mapping Process. It’s primary focus is not the discovery of waste but of process improvement with a very specific strategic intent, delivery of superior value for the execution of an organization‘s value proposition. This means that the Read More …

QVC of Marketing Flow

QVC is the leader in multi-channel retailing — a televised shopping service that broadcasts live retail programming 24 hours a day. It’s a vast virtual shopping center, offering a wide variety of products including jewelry, apparel, electronics, home furnishings, and beauty. They understand marketing flow. I did a series of blog post this week on Read More …