The Value Proposition of Use

Traditional sales and marketing evolved with linear thinking and the traditional sales funnel. In the past Goods-Dominant Logic thinking created a cost-plus price model for products which limits market scale. Scale must be done by creating something better, faster or cheaper or there must be the availability of increasing markets. Many of our products/services are Read More …

Where does a Customer Find Value in your Organization

Have you ever evaluated where your customer finds value within your company? In Lean you try to find the one best path – the value stream map. In the marketing, we have created the marketing funnel. However, Organizations can no longer feed products to customers, as I described in the blog post, Kill the Sales Read More …

Value Stream Mapping Customer Value

Value Stream Mapping Customer Value can be difficult to say the least. Even getting your organization to decide on what the Customer Value’s can be challenging. This PowerPoint/Video highlights the 5 Cs of Driving Market Share as the method of choice to determine your Customer’s Value Stream. It also introduces the term Voice of Market Read More …

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 …

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 …

Are you managing your Marketing Queue effectively?

When I watch this video, I can only think how many times that I have done this! When you think of managing your queue, what causes a story, task or even a customer to get shuffled like this? The frustration occurs of course because there is little if any management of the queue. In a Read More …