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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

We optimize the overall equation on our goals and our preferences–revenue, expense, headcount, productivity, and so forth. It’s become fashionable, recently, to apply manufacturing principles to our Go To Customer strategies. Customers become widgets progressing through our very efficient sales assembly lines.

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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. Sellers have, blindly, applied “manufacturing” technique to managing their selling process. Why— customers have found more productive ways of getting what they need to learn!

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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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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. As you have already seen, the foundation is “the right process will product the right results.”

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We Need To Change The Selling Conversation!!

Partners in Excellence

Our inboxes, voicemails, texts are dominated by these sellers talking to us about cool products, their cool companies and what they do. But the SaaS selling model seems to be based, also, on a flawed adaptation of lean manufacturing techniques and the Toyota production system. of the global economy.

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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.