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 …

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 …

Theory of Constraints in Services eBook

John Arthur Ricketts, a distinguished engineer at IBM was my guest on the Business901 Podcast titled Using the Theory of Constraints in Services. This is a transcription of the podcast. Using TOC in Services John is a practitioner and innovator in the field of Theory of Constraints. His book, Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve Read More …

What you can Learn from the Military on Cadence

If you have not been part of it you may not appreciate the military term of cadence. I spent 3 years in the 82nd Airborne running 2 miles a day to the sound of a voice similar to this.. 30 years later, I can still repeat most of these cadences. It forever produced a rhythmic Read More …

Training within Industry (TWI) old hat

Jim Huntzinger has over twenty years experience developing lean enterprises through system design and development, implementation, and guiding organizations both strategically and tactically through the transformation process. Currently he is the president and founder of the Lean Accounting Summit, TWI Summit, and Lean and Green Summit. The podcast is a good introduction to TWI and Read More …

Leading with Lean thru Accounting

Jim Huntzinger has over twenty years experience developing lean enterprises through system design and development, implementation, and guiding organizations both strategically and tactically through the transformation process. Currently he is the president and founder of the Lean Accounting Summit, TWI Summit, and Lean and Green Summit. The podcast was a great overview of Lean Accounting Read More …