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Let’s Talk About Lean Manufacturing For A Moment….

Partners in Excellence

So much of what our focus in “modern selling,” seems to be the adaptation of Lean Manufacturing techniques into selling. We’ve created “assembly lines” with specialized functions, passing our customers from one station to the next. One of the biggest areas of waste is the product itself.

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Start With The Customer

Partners in Excellence

Our demand gen, marketing, sales organizational design, sales processes, customer experience—all of it are generally designed around us. We optimize the overall equation on our goals and our preferences–revenue, expense, headcount, productivity, and so forth. Its the foundation of modern manufacturing and lean principles.

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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

Yet, sellers are still focused on being purveyors of the same product information that buyers have already studied on the web. But we seem to miss out on the fact that our buyers have discovered the same tools and are using them to help them in their buying process. What if we started demonstrating our commitment to their success?

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What Sales Can Learn From Lean Manufacturing — Part 2

Partners in Excellence

As I mentioned in my prior post , there are a lot of people promoting the application of Lean Manufacturing principles in sales. If you haven’t read the first post, What We Can Learn From Lean Manufacturing , be sure to read this. Principle 8: Use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your people and processes.

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The Future Of Work Is About More Than Work!

Partners in Excellence

” We look at, how do we reduce onboarding time, how do we maximize productivity during that time? We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assembly lines of the past. them passing the work to the next person in the knowledge worker assembly line. The problem is at the top!

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In a Supply Chain Crisis, Selling Parts Online May Be Your Next Move

Salesforce

That’s where OEM (original equipment manufacturer) and aftermarket parts come in — and sales of these crucial components are big business now. Any disruption to an assembly line or a delivery fleet can bring operations to a standstill, putting pressure on manufacturers to fix the issue as soon as possible.

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The GTM Learning Loop: How to Optimize Your Funnel with Applied Learning

InsightSquared

The Japanese term “Kaizen” stands for the continuous improvement of a process. Adopted by Japanese manufacturing companies after World War II as a way to reduce waste and create competitive advantage, kaizen evolved beyond the assembly line in manufacturing to all business processes and became the precursor to lean manufacturing.

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