Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2013

Add them to your CRM notes. Print your CRM history and present it to the new person so they can see your relationship and your value. All of a sudden, CRM diligence can have an impact.). EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. ” Begin to plan and act from there. Who’s the boss?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2013

CRM pioneer Mike Muhney, the co-creator of ACT! software, is CEO of mobile relationship management purveyor vipOrbit – the first relationship-centric contact manager solution enabling mobile business professionals to manage their contacts, calendar and client/customer interactions across Mac, iPhone and iPad platforms.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

If businesses exist, as the father of Business Management Peter Drucker proposed, “to create and keep a customer,” then success is defined by the relationships you establish with your customers. CRM pioneer Mike Muhney, the co-creator of ACT! EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Jeffrey, You are pretty critical of CRM systems. How do you suggest someone shows the value of CRM to the sales users? Mike, Make the CRM applicable to the sales cycle, not just what they did on Tuesday. And it’s the managers or the leaders responsibility to help them be responsible for themselves.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

It may seem an obscure data management distinction, but this shift toward collecting unstructured data – which is a large part of what Big Data is all about – is sending shock waves across traditional organizations. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Unstructured data is very different.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 9, 2014

Don’t forget their managers who force them to use an uncomfortable ‘system,’ a non-sales helpful CRM, and hold their salespeople accountable for their actions and numbers. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Dead and over. What killed it? Who killed it?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How would you approach the market of sales professionals and sales management? But if you could get them to record something on their laptop immediately, like a two minute, this goes here, this goes here, and you could actually do their CRM entering for them… Oh baby! EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Rich turned to face the six sales managers who comprised the entire team of Cam’s direct reports. There’s a rumor going around the floor,” she said, getting right down to business, “that you’re going to put Cam back on the phones, and that he won’t be in management anymore, or something to that effect.”. Rich sighed. Which is?” “If

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Rich turned to face the six sales managers who comprised the entire team of Cam’s direct reports. There’s a rumor going around the floor,” she said, getting right down to business, “that you’re going to put Cam back on the phones, and that he won’t be in management anymore, or something to that effect.”. Rich sighed. Which is?” “If

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CRM Competitive Advantage Fashion Follow-up 40

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Rich turned to face the six sales managers who comprised the entire team of Cam’s direct reports. There’s a rumor going around the floor,” she said, getting right down to business, “that you’re going to put Cam back on the phones, and that he won’t be in management anymore, or something to that effect.”. Rich sighed. Which is?”. “If

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CRM Competitive Advantage Fashion Follow-up 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. How do companies differentiate in a world where access to technology is no longer a competitive advantage?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Salesforce Einstein features within your CRM system) the fit with your business processes and IT architecture will require significant planning and time for adaptation. But you may lose your distinctive competence or competitive advantage if you do not tweak it to fit your context and build everything around it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In addition, traditional CRM systems, built on more rigid, relational databases, often don’t have the flexibility or scalability to manage vast piles of structured and unstructured data. This allows brands to shape their customers’ decision journeys, deepen their relationships, and gain a distinct competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2015

Here are five more sales concepts from my original list to put more sales on your CRM and more money in your ATM. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. For the past few weeks I have given you the list of 21.5 ideas that will drive the years results, and elaborated in detail on several of the elements.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Second, even if you do manage to hire stars, their unique skill sets may not be easily portable. It is as important as the products and services they sell and the customers they sell them to, and it’s a key to competitive advantage. There are a few problems with the hire-stars approach, however. Think about forecasting.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2014

contact management software, the product credited as the catalyst for the Customer Relationship Management industry, I’m surprisingly not a champion of the concept of ‘managing relationships’ at all. CRM Isn’t the Answer. Manage Your Reputation Instead. In other words, managing your reputation!

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CRM Reputation Competitive Advantage Software 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

ConnectMe leverages the world’s leading CRM cloud solution, Salesforce, to help organizations navigate the changing workplace and deliver an exceptional employee experience. How are those changes impacting business leaders, and what does that mean for human capital management? Jody Kohner, Salesforce. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

Technology 10

Technology Consultative Content Human Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

And many in enterprise IT, from software engineers to IT managers, are moaning the loss of control as elegant, easy-to-use consumer technologies like the iPad and Dropbox reshape expectations in the corporate landscape. So the mental involvement for managing these apps can get out of control. What sort of social graph could you build?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2014

In the same way that ‘going paperless’ doesn’t mean less paperwork, using technology to manage your contacts, calendars, and communication still requires diligence. As a result, many of us are managing work and play in one device, which is convenient, as it is sometimes impossible to distinguish one from the other.

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