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This groundbreaking book describes the Lean journey as it extends to a business area that is mission critical, yet has been virtually untouched by the Lean transformation. Lean for Sales: Bringing the Science of Lean to the Art of Selling provides sales professionals, and their management teams, with a structured, fact-based approach to boosting sales close rates and delivering improved business value to customers.

The time-tested Lean selling techniques described in this book have been proven to deliver profound results. In fact, it is not uncommon for sales close rates to see a threefold increase over current rates as a result of using the techniques described in this book. After reading the book, you will understand how to integrate the science of Lean with the art of sales to:



  • Create winning sales proposals


  • Use Lean selling storyboards to confirm what is truly valuable to your client and their business


  • Improve sales team collaboration


  • Define and qualify a client’s unique business problems and goals


  • Manage sales process performance using a multi-dimensional measurement system that looks beyond sales revenue to include client value and process effectiveness


This book outlines an innovative and proven approach to creating a common language with your customers that is based on waste elimination, root cause analysis, and time to value. Making the management of the sales cycle fact-based, rather than leaving it to intuition, this Lean selling manual presents tools that will enable sales professionals, and their managers, to collect sales opportunity data early and discard those leads that will ultimately waste valuable time and resources.



Table of Contents:
Traditional Sales versus Lean Selling. What Is Value; Lean Selling Principles. The Lean Sales "Funnel" Framework Explained. Client Capability Study and Identifying the Eight Deadly Forms of Lean Waste. Getting to the Root Cause of a Client‘s Problem and Proposing the "To-Be" Process. The Cascade Effect and Lean Selling Balanced Scorecard. How to Build a Time to Value Proposition. Bringing It All Together with the Lean Selling Storyboard. Conclusion and a Call to Action.

About the Author :

Sean Gillespie is a leading authority on value creation and value delivery in sales engagements, through the use of Lean and Agile tools and techniques. He has enjoyed a 25+ year professional sales career working for 4 of the top 20 software companies, in various senior sales and management roles. From his very first role in sales selling personal computers Sean‘s focus has been based on developing strategic relationships with customers that enable tangible customer results. Today Sean works for IBM as a client value leader in IBM systems/software division. Additionally Sean advises the sales management teams on sales progression, success measurement, and sales skills and engagement enhancement.

Michael V. Testani, Sr is a senior business transformation consultant for the IBM Corporation, where he leads operational and culture transformation initiatives across the global IBM enterprise. One of Testani‘s primary areas of expertise is helping businesses make a successful Lean transformation, where he has successfully guided many organizations on their Lean journey. Over the last several years, he has been helping to enable Lean and Agile transformation initiatives within the IBM sales organization.

Over his career, Testani has held several corporate leadership positions outside of IBM including, vice president of engineering, plant general manager, director of manufacturing and product manager. He also served as the president and general manager of his own independent consulting company, where he has enabled several clients around the world to adopt Lean principles and practices. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Master, and Agile consultant.

Sreekanth Ramakrishnan

, PhD, is a data scientist with IBM Corporate Learning, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In this role, he has global responsibilities for facilitating transformation across IBM Corporation usin


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781040182017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Productivity Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1040182011
  • Publisher Date: 25 Feb 2016
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: Bringing the Science of Lean to the Art of Selling


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