Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And these principles have their original foundations in manufacturing. In manufacturing, scrap is unacceptable, and manufacturers constantly work to eliminate scrap. Bottlenecks in manufacturing throughput are things that must be eliminated, not things that manufacturers “tolerate.”

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2021

It’s become fashionable, recently, to apply manufacturing principles to our Go To Customer strategies. Unfortunately, the people that promote this mechanization of our customer engagement strategies, leveraging manufacturing principles, don’t understand manufacturing principles. And it works, until it doesn’t.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 2, 2024

It’s become the fashion to apply lean/agile manufacturing approaches to our selling and GTM strategies. There are some principles we can learn from manufacturing (just as there are some we can learn from design/development, procurement and other sectors). And waste/scrap have profound costs, adversely impacting profitability.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Finalize the product design and release to manufacturing, 4. Begin manufacturing. Manufacturing, may also be putting manufacturing capacity in place, sometimes before the product design has been completed. In this case, milestones might be to 1. Establish the product design goals, 2.

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Martech

JULY 19, 2024

Over the course of 150 years, manufacturing evolved from relying on skilled artisans and craftsmen to automated, computer-driven, flexible manufacturing systems. Just as automation shifted the number and type of jobs in manufacturing, the number and type of jobs in marketing are set to change.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 3, 2024

This approach contrasts with traditional manufacturing methods, which involve producing goods in advance and storing them in inventory until they are sold. JIT manufacturers rely on their suppliers to deliver goods on time and in the exact quantities needed. Another key principle of JIT inventory management is to minimize waste.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2024

Continuing my series on applying lean/agile manufacturing principles to selling, I was reminded by Charles Green and Dave Jackson about an important aspect of these principles that is never mentioned by those promoting lean/agile in our sales assembly lines. What if we learned what lean/agile manufacturers really do?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We had several manufacturing companies using it for improving manufacturing processes, quality, and yields. So for our first few years, we focused exclusively on manufacturing process control and prescriptive maintenance. Some changing the settings in their manufacturing machines. Let me go back to this last point.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 30, 2020

” Bill responded, “Our stuff is really important to their ability to manufacture their products. We’ve helped many of your manufacturing facilities improve the quality of products………” Mike interrupted Bill, “Bill thank you for those words. You have helped us in our manufacturing.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2020

As a side note, manufacturing experts would be appalled looking at the design of our sales assembly lines. Manufacturing experts set up their manufacturing lines to minimize waste and error (in sales speak–that’s maximizing our ability to connect effectively with the customer and win).

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Membrain

MARCH 29, 2023

Among manufacturers, the concept of Lean is well established and practically universal in its application. Along with Six Sigma and Just In Time (JIT), these approaches have transformed the manufacturing world so profoundly that it’s no longer possible to compete in manufacturing without some version of these practices in place.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 18, 2021

A major candy manufacturer was launching a new line of products. We then asked questions, “When do you need to start manufacturing product to achieve that? How long does it take you to put a new manufacturing line in place and qualify it? ” I then asked, what kind of technology company?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

For example, in the mid-80s I led a team approaching aircraft manufacturers with the questions, “What might happen if you could design/manufacture airplanes digitally?” Manufacturing cycles could be optimized much more quickly, reducing manufacturing cost and cycle time.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 11, 2024

” Let’s imagine we sell manufacturing equipment. We’ve sold to a customer with a single manufacturing line, but now they are expanding the number of manufacturing lines so they need to buy more. If we create manufacturing machinery, we may have started with machines that do one thing on an assembly line.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2024

” In the original development of Lean/Agile principles in manufacturing, leaders recognized they could never rest on their laurels. ” “Can we reduce costs, can we reduce end to end manufacturing time?” This mindset was part of the culture of high performing lean/agile manufacturers.

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Membrain

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Largely inspired by the work of Frederick Winslow Taylor, and made real by Henry Ford and others, the age of mass production introduced the concept of role specialisation in the pursuit of manufacturing efficiency.

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Martech

APRIL 24, 2024

. “No one goes to Spotify or Apple Podcasts and searches for manufacturing podcasts (or if they do, it’s very few). On the flip side, manufacturing companies have lot of unique industry data and niche concepts. Podcasts, as a content type, are all about meeting customers’ preferences.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

And manufacturing has to make sure those products are high quality so we don’t get returns and keep our customers happy… ” But still the customer is an abstraction. Engineering serves manufacturing to make sure products can be effectively manufactured. My job is different, I work with people internally.”

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2023

In 2002, I cofounded a company that offered an AI tool focused on a couple of problem areas–manufacturing process control and prescriptive maintenance. For example, we could analyze millions of pieces of data, with thousands of variables, to give people insights into, in this case, their manufacturing processes.

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Martech

MAY 19, 2022

Some dealers find it difficult to have repeated conversations about problems with manufacturing or delivery. Sharer’s question for them: “If a manufacturer knew a delivery was delayed, when would you want to know?” . “Reach out when you have new information,” said Sharer. The state of the crisis.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 4, 2021

My phone’s manufacturer is about to release a new version that will exceed the current model in every way, eventually providing users an augmented reality with even more frequent distractions. What a way to escape from your life into a sort of reverse Matrix, where people plug themselves in to avoid an uncomfortable reality.

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Martech

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With this business model, the first B (manufacturing company) does not know the C (end-user, consumer). These companies sell products they manufacture to other companies (retailers and distributors) who, in turn, sell to the consumer, the person actually buying and using the product. how many of your products were sold).

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Veloxy

MARCH 29, 2021

These can include anyone such as your manufacturers, vendors, and suppliers. So instead of trying t master all of them at once, just choose a few and try mastering those first. 5: Piggyback your Partners. When you’re a small startup with limited marketing funds, it makes total sense to partner up with other complementary businesses.

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Engage Selling

DECEMBER 17, 2021

They are a manufacturer and they sell through distributors. Why does team selling work? A client recently reported interesting results to me. They have a core sales team of experts that are assigned to all of these distributors.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For example, we have engineering/product development, manufacturing/service delivery, marketing, sales, customer support, finance, HR, operations, and so forth. For example, manufacturing depends on product development to feed new products to build and deliver. As a result, we break them down into subsystems.

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Manufacturing Finance Inside sales Technique 133

Tibor Shanto

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Holding an Engineer’s Diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (equal to an MS in Engineering), he started out with a corporate career with telecom equipment manufacturers where he held positions such as: Product Manager, Business Manager, Director of Corporate Strategic Planning and COO of a joint venture start-up company.

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The Advantexe Advisor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Advantexe delivers many business acumen training programs for our clients in the automobile industry including clients who manufacture cars, clients who manufacture tires, and clients who supply the paint to new and refurbished cars.

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Membrain

MAY 31, 2023

I did not realize that much of what we would develop over the next ten years would echo the work of leading thinkers responsible for major shifts and improvements in manufacturing over the past hundred years. When I set out to develop Membrain , I knew the sales profession deserved a better CRM platform.

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Membrain

AUGUST 21, 2022

If your car was manufactured in the last few years, you probably have a rear camera that helps you see your surroundings when you need to back up, back into a parking space, or drive backwards on the interstate at 65 MPH. Okay, maybe not the last one.

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Martech

MAY 4, 2023

Take the following B2B manufacturing example. Understanding this customer need allows the manufacturing company to provide support throughout challenging economic times and help marketing leaders improve customer perceptions and meet internal goals simultaneously.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 10, 2023

It was a large manufacturing company, he wanted to understand it the systems were to help manage their manufacturing plants, or for their engineering teams, or finance, or some other area. ” The response came quickly, “$45M!” ” But the question George was asking was about what the customer was trying to do.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2022

If you are a manufacturer, an IT professional, an HR or finance professional? Or if our customers were manufacturers, I tried to hire and train manufacturing managers. What if we went to customers, asking, “Would you have trust and confidence in working with a sales person who had never done what you did?”

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Martech

JUNE 18, 2024

. “S&P Global Mobility is a data-rich environment of automotive information and analytics from every part of the automotive life cycle, whether it’s the manufacturer’s planning for their next vehicle launch or understanding how many vehicles they’re going to sell over the next five years.”

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Force Management

MARCH 19, 2024

Companies that can’t rely on forecasts feel ripple effects across the organization, impacting manufacturing, delivery, operations, and finance. But when slipped deals are a consistent end-of-quarter occurrence, that’s an organizational problem with serious negative consequences.

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Territory Manufacturing Finance Process 120

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They aren’t looking for new software technologies to help improve manufacturing, or development, or HR, or whatever, every day. Why would HR, Sales, Marketing Customer experience care about a new manufacturing process control system. And why would manufacturing care about a new content management system.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 9, 2021

At one point in my career, I worked with engineers and manufacturing organizations. While these organizations are still responsible for developing and manufacturing products, the methods, tools, skills, organizational structures bear little resemblance to 30 years ago.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

” When I moved to working with manufacturing and process based organizations, I read all sorts of books on modern manufacturing. We create the greatest value with our customers when we connect with them where they are at. When we understand the things they do, how they think, what they care about.

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