Custom Magnetic Dry Erase Comic Strip

Do you need a customizable comic strip that lets you create your own comics using magnetic characters? It’s a great start for a service design project and creating a customer experience. It’s part of a Kickstarter project by Erik Heumiller. There are loads of options on the website from $1 to $300. The Magnet Comic Read More …

Relationship Building thru Technology

Smart Mobs, Peer to Peer Networks, Crowdsourcing and Lean is what Liz Guthridge, the founder of Connect Consulting Group and I talked about in our podcast. When I created the cloud, I saw what was really important to Liz and at the center of her thoughts; people! At Connect Consulting Group, Liz helps leaders implement Read More …

The Lean Marketing version of Lean 3P

Designing your Value Proposition Lean 3Ps of Marketing: Purposes, Practices and People The  Competing Values Framework is used to organize an approach to leadership and management development. An excerpt from a paper (download the entire paper) by the author of Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations (New Horizons in Management). These dimensions form four Read More …

Lean Marketing and Service Dominant Logic

Lean Sales and Marketing is just not another extension of Lean into another area of business. if you think that way, you will be marred into product dominant thinking. You must recognize Lean as the pathway into  Service Dominant Logic Thinking (Vargo and Lusch (2006)). Lean is used as the vehicle to deliver effective and Read More …

On Demand Prototyping?

We may not be that far away from sitting next to a customer and "sketching" a 3D interactive prototype as we discuss his needs. The heck with the tablets back to pen and paper -sort of!   Electronics aren’t just for experts and engineers. Kids and amateurs should be able to play, too, which is Read More …