Marketing Waste should appear, not be found

Many people believe that to apply Lean Techniques to marketing it is about removing waste. Eliminating waste is one of the Guiding Principles of Value Stream Marketing but you must make some fundamental improvements in your marketing cycle before a pull marketing system will work. Related Posts: A Little Law applied in Lean Marketing Most Read More …

Six Sigma Marketing uses a modified DMAIC

I have been discussing Six Sigma Marketing with Eric Reidenbach of the Six Sigma Marketing Institute and find his approach to the combination of Six Sigma and Marketing quite impressive. He differs from the traditional approach of most organizations when applying Six Sigma to Marketing activities. That approach typically deals with highly structured people and Read More …

Kanban at Xerox Corporation

I had 2 experts, Michael Curry and Rob Piersielak of the Xerox Corporation on the Business901 podcast to discuss Kanban. With so much being written about Kanban in software development in general and in my own writings on the Marketing Kanban, I felt that giving my readers and listeners a perspective on the traditional form Read More …

Don’t Market Without Your Kanban

Recently, I had the pleasure of doing a guest post on the Lean Blog. The Lean Blog is authored by Mark Graban, a Senior Fellow at the Lean Enterprise Institute and author of the book, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction winner of a 2009 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. Mark Read More …

Lean in the Office and Service, eBook

Drew Locher was my guest on the Business901 podcast and this is a transcription of our conversation that centered on applying Lean to the Office and Service sectors. Drew is currently Managing Director for Change Management Associates, a Shingo Prize winning author and the first Business901 Podcast returning guest. Related Podcast: Lean Thinking in the Read More …

Value Stream Marketing and Marketing Kanban concepts featured on Lean Nation Radio

Exciting News! I will be a guest on the The Lean Nation radio show Monday, July 12th from 4-5pm Est. on 790 AM Talk and Business, hosted by Karl Wadensten.  We’re going to discuss Marketing with Lean and more specifically Value Stream Marketing and the Marketing Kanban.  This is an important topic and I’m looking Read More …