Value Stream Mapping your Marketing

I advocate the use of the value stream map to outline your customer’s buying process and to vividly demonstrate how your marketing efforts mimic that process. Consider the map as a tool designed to highlight activities. The current state serves as a guideline to communicate the opportunities so they may be prioritized and then acted Read More …

Be part of the first Webinar Series on the 5Cs of Driving Market Share

Since the publication of  Listening to the Voice of the Market, Dr. Reidenbach has published Six Sigma Marketing and created the Six Sigma Marketing Institute.  This month we have launched the initial product The 5Cs of Driving Market Share. I know that you want to stay on top of the latest developments and innovations that Read More …

Linking the 4Ps to Lean Marketing

This week I was challenged that I had spent little time creating the linkage between Lean Marketing or the Value Steam Marketing concepts and the classic 4 P’s. The reason why is that I believe marketing has changed from the 4 P’s to a demand driven or pull type of marketing that is fundamentally based Read More …

Six Sigma Discipline is Good for a Creative Process

I have been promoting Lean Marketing and Six Sigma Marketing for quite a while and have typically been met with steadfast resistance. However, I am seeing more and more mentions of this and it is not coming from the Six Sigma Black Belts. It is being driven by Marketers and Accountants. Listen to one marketer’s Read More …

Six Sigma a great companion to marketing

Received an excellent response on my post yesterday (Measuring The Customer Experience) on Twitter from a @pricingright that said; “With all due respect, it is far too simplistic to use customer advocacy as a measure of customer experience & it is wrong to draw causations. Correlations they speak about are from cross-sectional studies. Interesting but Read More …

Six Sigma Marketing Institute releases Customer Id Program

Customer Identification Program has been released by Six Sigma Marketing Institute and can be found at http://DrivingMarketShare.com. Customer Identification is the first step in the 5 Cs of Driving Market Share and identifies specific product/markets that offer an organization its best options for growth. The program enables an organization to evaluate product/markets using metrics such Read More …