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Use Your Sales Force’s Competitive Intelligence Wisely

Harvard Business Review

The vast majority of your marketing data, whether from purchases or surveys, tells you about your business customers’ past behaviors. Your job as a manager is to know what your customers will do next month or next year. My colleagues and I have seen numerous examples of sales forces gaining important competitive knowledge.

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JP Morgan's Loss: Bigger than "Risk Management"

Harvard Business Review

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

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You Can Make Your Sales Data a Lot Better with a Little Discipline

Harvard Business Review

Whether it’s the customer relationship management platforms used by sales teams, enterprise resource planning software used by purchasing teams, or the account-based marketing technology employed by marketing teams, the business intelligence platform can recognize a unique URL and attach it to clean, usable data.

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Why the Best Salespeople Get So Lucky

Harvard Business Review

Sales managers have a difficult relationship with luck. They’ve seen it occasionally give a lift to morale, but they’re probably familiar with studies showing that attributing success or failure to random outside factors drains salespeople’s willingness to try new strategies. Gathering competitive intelligence.

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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

For more than 30 years, most large corporations worldwide have adopted competitive intelligence (CI) as a way to expedite good decisions. We recently conducted a survey of CI managers and analysts who’ve been through our training program to see how much their findings influenced major company decisions, and why.

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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

There are inherent risks and pitfalls that can be avoided or need to be managed. This guide was developed as a way to ensure successful 2X2X2 executive developmental job changes and be a vaccination against possible derailment. I discovered that this is what’s really required of a General Manager – you can’t know it all.”

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How a Food-Ordering App Broke into a Crowded Market

Harvard Business Review

The idea for the business came to Nadav Sharon, a former Israeli Navy cook living in San Francisco and managing a small family pizzeria, when he realized how much time he was wasting taking endless phone orders. But Eat24 managed to bootstrap their app anyway. Here’s how. Go after “undesirable” media.