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• Basics Of Project Management for Marketing

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  The last several posts have discussed several products and resources for project management. Good project management has to occur throughout your organization to be successful. Your company probably has a great deal of knowledge and is already using a software package for scheduling such as Microsoft Project. I want ...
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• Replacing the Marketing Calendar with Project Management

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  I believe that many Marketing projects do not conform to good solid project management techniques and practices. It’s not surprising, seldom does anyone invest in the proper training to develop the skills needed. To do list, due dates without properly define scope, and assigning responsibilities does not constitute ...
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• The Death of the Marketing Calendar – Part1

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  Marketing people talk about it all the time, and it must be from the days of buying so much print media, television and radio spots. I have marketing calendars and here is what I have figured out to do with them. Deskpad to take notes. Video on how to create one. Google calendar for my site. Uhm – a give-away ...
  3 days ago

• Your Value Stream Map is not your Project Plan

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  Value Stream Mapping comes from the Toyota process flow improvement tools and involves identifying all the steps both value added and non-value added currently involved in providing a product or service. It will create a visual representation of that value stream or the work in process. It establishes a common ...
  3 days ago

• DFSS – The Best Way To Design A High Quality Product

  
  Website Marketing Club — Authority: 162
  Many businesses are already familar with Six Sigma, and how it can help improve the quality of existing products and processes within your organization. When a business is looking to improve quality, and eliminate defects, they can use the Six Sigma DMAIC method to help improve their business. The DMAIC method stands ...
  4 days ago

• Using FIFO in the Value Stream Mapping process for Marketing

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  I was doing a Value Stream Mapping project for a customer and as we were creating their marketing segments to create the map, we were having difficulty creating the typical Marketing Hourglass, (Marketing Funnel, Sales Pipeline) for this particular segment. We also wanterd to remove some prospects in the middle of a ...
  5 days ago

• Lean Tools and Culture as it Relates to Zen

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  There’s been a big debate lately on tools and the thinking processes of lean.When you talk about a system, one of the first things that I think of is the tools that are used in the system. I use the tools to make sense out of a system, but I thought that Michael Balle author of the Lean Manager might feel ...
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• Developing a Kaizen Conscious with Shingo Prize winner Michael Balle

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  Michael Ballé is the co-author of, The Gold Mine , a bestselling business novel of a Lean Turnaround, and recently, The Lean Manager , a novel of a Lean Transformation both published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. For the past 15 years, he has studied lean transformations, helping companies develop a lean ...
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• Developing a Kaizen Conscious with Michael Balle, co-author of The Lean Manager

  
  Business901 — Authority: 92
  Michael Ballé is the co-author of, The Gold Mine, a bestselling business novel of lean turnaround, and recently, The Lean Manager , a novel of lean transformation, both published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. For the past 15 years, he has studied lean transformations, helping companies develop a lean ...
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• Sponsor Event: Eliminate Ineffective Silos and Achieve Company-Wide Process Improvement Success

  
  Procurement Insights — Authority: 129
  Occasionally I will post an event that I feel will be of interest to my readers. Forrest Breyfogle III has been a guest on the PI Window Business on two separate segments.  His first appearance was on April 23rd, 2009 on a show titled “ Unemployed Excellence – Why Lean, Six Sigma Have Left Some People Out in the ...
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• Process Improvement utilizing Lean and Lean Sigma

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  Glenn Whitfield serves as Director of Dean Dorton Ford ’s Process Improvement Services group based out of the Louisville office. Glenn was my guest on the Business901 Podcast and we had the opportunity to discuss DDF’s methodology for improvement within an organization. Their methodology concentrates on a Value ...
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• A Little more on applying Little’s Law to Lean your Marketing!

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  In a previous post, I transformed Little’s Law to marketing utilizing this formula: Marketing Cycle Time = Customers in Process / Closed Sales. I would like to simplify this formula and change the nomenclature a little. I think more accurately it should be called Sales and Marketing Process Time(SMPT) = Prospects ...
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• A Little Law applied in Lean Marketing

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  Most marketing systems are out of control. They just have not been managed with understanding the process speed and the effect of the flow on the process. Understanding some of the drivers of this process is much simpler than you might think. A simple equation called Little’s Law can tell us how long it will take ...
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• Most Marketing Systems are Out of Control.

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  Most Marketing systems are out of control. They have not been managed with understanding of the process speed and the effect of the flow on the process. As a result, performance has to be sub-standard. My marketing has too many variables to define my Value Stream! Can you afford to say that? Depending on your ...
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• Steps to creating your Need Statement

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  The other day, I discussed Your Marketing Vision should define your Customer’s Core Problem , but how do you go about doing it. A simple exercise that I found useful was depicted in the book: True Purpose: 12 Strategies for Discovering the Difference You Are Meant to Make by Tim Kelly. In the book, he discusses ...
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• Implementing Lean – As fast as a Pit Crew?

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  At the recent AME Conference , Performance Instruction and Training offered sessions that allowed you to experience their unique style of learning. The concepts PIP teaches motorsports pit crews to conduct sub 13-second pit-stops relate to your business and drive home the concepts of lean, Six Sigma, and continuous ...
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• Your Marketing Vision should define your Customer’s Core Problem

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  Today’s products and services reflect greater marketing segmentation. As you know, I use the Duct Tape Marketing Hourglass as The Pillar of the Lean Marketing House™ but there is no universal terminology, it is just convenient to stay with one message because even as you segment your list you still have to ...
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• Start your Visual Thinking Process with Mind Mapping

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  Davinci did it, Aristotle did it, should you? Mind mapping is widely understood term but few people utilize it. I am amazed that even on our school systems that it still does not replace linear note taking. Mind Map represents the best of both worlds by resembling the visual aspects of a flow chart and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Power of Visual Thinking in your Visual Workplace

  
  Business901 — Authority: 129
  If you follow my blog you know the respect I have for the David Armano and the Logic & Emotion Blog. David had a great blog post on the power of visual thinking and also shared this slideshow presentation. A clear demonstration of visual thinking. An excerpt from the Blog Post… The Value of Visual Thinking ...
  2 weeks ago

• Finding A Job In A Poor Economy

  
  Website Marketing Club — Authority: 162
  The current economic drought has led to a sweeping loss of jobs across the nation, and many companies are either letting people go, reducing their hiring policies, or increasing the qualifications for potential employees. It can be frustrating, stressful, and difficult to try and find employment in the economy’s ...
  2 weeks ago

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