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Stop Numerator Thinking: Innovating Your Service Experience

Lead Change Blog

Then there are the business developers forever in pursuit of new products and new markets. I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. What rings their chime is growth.

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Who Owns Your Customer Relationships: Your Salespeople or Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

Your R&D group develops a unique new product. Marketing designs the promotional campaign. The company holds us accountable for revenues and expects us to develop and maintain the connections to drive sales. Manufacturing produces it. Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Top startups already have market leading solutions. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system. For those that do, the last step prior to acceptance into the program is to define a pilot project between the startup and a business unit. Creating the Venture Client Model.