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Why traditional marketing systems can’t keep up with AI and what to do about it

Martech

Over the course of 150 years, manufacturing evolved from relying on skilled artisans and craftsmen to automated, computer-driven, flexible manufacturing systems. Marketing leaders must consider productivity gains and technology as well as the entire marketing system, including the impact on people, processes and roles.

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How Deming’s 14 principles provide the foundation for Positionless Marketing by Optimove

Martech

Edwards Demings 14 principles transformed manufacturing by emphasizing quality, efficiency and continuous improvement. The traditional, assembly-line model of campaign executionwhere data, creative, and deployment are handled in rigid stepsis no longer fast enough for real-time customer engagement.

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Continuous Improvement, How Do We Get Better?

Partners in Excellence

” In the original development of Lean/Agile principles in manufacturing, leaders recognized they could never rest on their laurels. ” A mindset instilled in each worker in the assembly line was, “how do you improve the part of the process you are responsible for? It was the “Suggestion Box.”

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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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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

My feeds are filled with new technologies, new selling models, new engagement strategies, new organizational structures. Sellers have, blindly, applied “manufacturing” technique to managing their selling process. There seems to be an arrogance or conceit in so many of the conversations I see about the future of selling.

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The Future Of Work Is About More Than Work!

Partners in Excellence

Many think this is being driven by technology, AI/ML. We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assembly lines of the past. We chop up work, creating assembly lines where knowledge workers focus on perhaps the functional equivalent of tightening a bolt.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

This has a number of advantages, skill levels don’t need to be as high, we can leverage role specialization more effectively (creating sales assembly lines with customer widgets passing through each station), and we can effectively leverage all the traditional selling skills.

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