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Steps in a Buying Decision

Strategy Driven

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. Find budget. Long meeting to get consensus. meet with BDT.

CFO 50
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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Your challenge is to develop and model the behaviors required to inspire people and teams to genuinely break through organizational silos and make collaboration a competitive advantage. But are your resources truly applied as optimally as possible to your market opportunities in a way that best serves the total business?

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We Close Only The Low Hanging Fruit

Strategy Driven

80% of your prospects will buy a solution similar to yours within 2 years of your connection, but not from you; your relationship-building, price breaks, marketing campaigns, etc. I developed Buying Facilitation® to manage that problem for my own sales team. Should the HR person share budget with L&D?

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Battling Entitlement, the Innovation-Killer

Harvard Business Review

We had budgeted $90,000 for a particular expenditure. As can becoming a benevolent dictator to my staff, deciding that seeking consensus is no longer required. It's no wonder then that the emerging markets are a seedbed of innovation. In a business, entitlement inhibits innovation. Instead of "What did they do that I didn't?"

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Making Decisions Together (When You Don’t Agree on What’s Important)

Harvard Business Review

One group’s accountable for managing costs, for example, and another group’s responsible for growing market share. Jeff: It always shows up in discussions about budgets and resource allocation. You recommend developing a common process for resolving these conflicts. These are natural checks and balances.

Project 11
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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. They keep customers happier.

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Advertisers Should Act More Like Newsrooms

Harvard Business Review

In contrast, the newsroom metaphor suggests that content has to be produced and delivered in a continuous stream rather than through a ponderous, slow-moving process of months of campaign development. A Unique Approach to Marketing Coca-Cola in Hong Kong. Contact cathays@wharton.upenn.edu. When Advertising Meets the Meme.