Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

72% of all new products don’t meet their revenue targets. About two-thirds were in B2B businesses.). HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem? They build a product hoping to monetize, but not knowing whether they will be able to.

Price 11

Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

This may seem reasonable for small business websites or blogs, but when it comes to B2B systems and e-commerce platforms, these errors could lead to huge losses. The trick is to combine the financing model and the development calendar. The customer decides to create a B2B web platform from scratch. Solution: Take your time.

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B2B Development Wilde Project 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

If you build a team that brings in operations, sales, finance, and the executive suite, you are more likely to figure out where the real bottlenecks and opportunities are, and you are more likely to come up with practical solutions that actually start solving them.

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USP Airlines Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruptive products and services were, by definition, cheaper, lower quality, and lower margin. If you were running a profitable business with growth opportunities from an existing customer base, it was unlikely that you’d prioritize building low-quality products for over-served customers at lower margins.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

B2B companies have been doing it for years. The best B2B firms are very responsive to customers. But compared with consumer companies, B2B firms have relatively few customers. For example, many financial services companies can anticipate, on the basis of past behavior, what products a customer might need next.

Marketing 8

Marketing B2B Outsourcing Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

When an entrepreneur decides to start a business, there are typically several important tasks at the top of his or her To-Do list, such as writing a business plan, choosing a name, and obtaining financing. Without a long track record, it can be hard for a startup to establish and hold firm on the value of the product or service it's offering.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Discount B2B Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

When an entrepreneur decides to start a business, there are typically several important tasks at the top of his or her To-Do list, such as writing a business plan, choosing a name, and obtaining financing. Without a long track record, it can be hard for a startup to establish and hold firm on the value of the product or service it's offering.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Discount B2B Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The role exists in B2B and B2C firms as diverse as Allstate, Dunkin' Brands, USAA, Philips Electronics, FedEx, the Cleveland Clinic, and SAP. Our operations departments were focused on our products and services, our finance teams on collecting payments, and our sales and business development teams on meeting short-term revenue goals.

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B2C B2B Forrester Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

By seeing exactly where and how people spend their time — rather than relying on recollections, anecdotes, or assumptions — executives have a solid basis for taking actions that will raise productivity. The company had experienced lackluster sales growth, especially outside of its core product category. Related Video.

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Software Metrics CRM B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Now, however, students’ college and pre-MBA experience is more likely to be in a finance area or perhaps in coding. Does this mean that all business goes online?

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Education Levitt Retail Training 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2017

Real-time, human support is now one of the most sought-after features for any B2B and B2C website owner, and if it isn’t a given in your industry, I assure you it will be soon! This is where a customer service agent can redirect a user’s browser in order to help them reach a product or some information that they’re having trouble finding.

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Tips B2C B2B FAQ 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

(Industry cluster metrics measure the size of the pool of potential customers for B2B or B2C companies, and market stability metrics measure institutional, business, and social stability.) This data is publicly available on each state’s website.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Bain research shows that leading companies can achieve 60% or better response rates in B2B companies and 30% or more in most B2C situations. Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. You can also use these processes to inform policy, pricing, staffing, process and product improvements.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

But at this point the company is not vulnerable to a digital disruption, and the modes of interactions with its B2B customers are stable. The captive financing division of a global manufacturer has a team of 30 or so analytics modelers, several of which are PhD holders. Business demand exceeds the team’s capacity to deliver.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It’s because you don’t get it…It’s not about you, your company, your products or your services. Today’s consumer (B2B or B2C) does their homework, is well informed, and buys…they are not sold. Arrogante I am a product of the FAB, (features and benefits-selling if that is what you mean) era.

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Blog Ryan B2C Brand 409

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

With a little creativity, CMOs can work with them to monetize that data to create new products and, in some cases, whole new markets. The ability to offer financing gave the technology vendor a point of differentiation that helped it beat its revenue projection for the year. The finance team brought its scenario modeling tools to bear.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Most customers are interested in your content first (how much you know about their pain points) before purchasing your products or services. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

That would make his product unaffordable for most of his core customers, and they would almost certainly switch to his competitors’ cheaper alternative. Russia) in order to compensate for the depreciation’s effect on their USD earnings, but that means their product can become as much as 40% more expensive overnight.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Indeed, according to my research into 351 mid-market B2B companies , except for companies in software, the adoption rate of marketing technology is very low: companies in other industries are using a median of just 2 out of 9 major marketing technology programs that I identified. So it can be complicated.

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Technology Marketing Company CRM 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Indeed, according to my research into 351 mid-market B2B companies , except for companies in software, the adoption rate of marketing technology is very low: companies in other industries are using a median of just 2 out of 9 major marketing technology programs that I identified. So it can be complicated.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Company CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. .” Financed by VC firms. Unicorns are: Small in size. Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8