The Marketing Funnel using Six Sigma – Control Stage
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009The first 4-steps of the DMAIC process answered the questions: What is important, how are we doing, what is wrong and what needs to be done? We also considered the marketing funnel stages of Awareness, consider, prefer and evaluate. The fifth stage of the process in DMAIC is Control and in the Marketing funnel it [...]
A Little Law applied in Lean Marketing
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Most 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 [...]
Use DMAIC for your A3 Report
Saturday, November 21st, 2009The definition of an A3 Report is a simple storyboard that tells the whole story of an improvement event on one 11×17 sheet of paper. The left side defines the problem, the right side proposes solutions. That is the basic structure. However, A3 is much more than that. It is the tool used by Toyota [...]
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