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The New World Of Enterprise Sales

Strategy Driven

However, the best sales pros will still provide value in the form of the latest technology industry trends to buyers. Companies need to make drastic changes to their websites and marketing collateral to recognize the change in the digital marketplace. Buyers tend to be far more educated on what is available in the marketplace now.

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Don't Divest Just Because the Economy Is Rotten

Harvard Business Review

The latest trend in M&A these days is divestitures: larger companies selling off pieces of their business. This trend is nothing more than a normal cycle, but it is critically important to understand. Yet M&A activity tends to spike when markets peak, arguably fueling a bubble: there were roughly $3.79

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans.

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Courtside Seats to the Best (And Worst) C-Suites

Harvard Business Review

Or, maybe a consumer trend spotted in some European markets could provide an early warning to leaders in North America or to the corporate product development group. This courtside seat also allows us to observe some of the best (and worst!) There is just too much inter-dependency and too much local or unique nuance.

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What Groupon and LivingSocial Cannot Offer

Harvard Business Review

That honor goes to the market leader, Groupon. Now, thousands of companies are jumping on the latest trend trying to generate buzz for their products. Without a valuable and unique product, viral marketing, social influence and buzz will help initially but will be of no lasting consequence. million units sold in a single day ).

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. Even more impressively, their spin out Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.