Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2011

As a value-added reseller of platforms and applications from the industry’s top manufacturers, and a provider of our own line of technology products and services, we design, build, and maintain today’s complex voice and data networks. Keith Ross is product manager for Networking products at Black Box Corporation.

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Strategy Management CRM Telecommunications 93

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Having advanced keyword search tools (knowing when someone's talking about you or your product), identifying key influencers (say, on a Twitter list), and really looking at social media through a CRM lens (vv. The key is knowing *when* – and how deeply – to interact. This is where much of the true complexity lies.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 325

Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

This question spurred frank and difficult conversations about why growth was stagnating, why employee attrition was happening, what it would take to effect real change (to culture, to policies and processes, to the product set, and to the customer experience), and who would have to step up to lead the charge. Tips to Ask Good Questions.

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Sull How To Insourcing Sharpe 71

QAspire

JULY 29, 2010

I read something similar to this in a management book related to CRM. Apart from the quality of product, the perception of value has a lot to do with the overall experience of client when dealing with you. Check out #4 there! This was a nice post to share on weekend!Thanks Thanks Tanmay and have a great weekend. Don’t Kill It!

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Gantt Chart Project Budgeting Teamwork 130

Strategy Driven

JUNE 9, 2014

The only people who don’t know that are other sales trainers, recently released old-world sales tactics books that are still trying to convey old messages, and several million salespeople still trying to cold call, pitch the product, overcome objections, and close the sale. Not just your company and your products – you personally.

Customer Loyalty 63

Customer Loyalty B2C Reputation CRM 63

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Every salesperson who has a CRM – SalesForce.com , Microsoft Dynamics, whatever it is – is required to put stuff into their computer on an everyday basis for every sales call they make and there’s one universal truth about it: they all can’t stand it. Do I need two different approaches? Gerhard, No.

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Real Estate CRM Ryan Open-book 50

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 18, 2013

The difference is that the cluster funnel is collapsing giving way to digital, mobile, and social moments of truth are missed by businesses because they believe technology is only used by people seeking consumer products. You know that's not true. Some of the most engaged companies leading the way are focused on B2B.

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B2B B2C Technology CRM 56

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Example: Carol owns a small business and needs a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. However, they do not promote your brand and they may switch easily to other products. Example: Jim’s firm has used the same CRM software for ten years. Example: Jacob loves his CRM software and has become an expert in its use.

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CRM Brand Business Model Intangible Assets 8

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

Get the leadership more involved? marketing, sales, product development, and innovation). Bloom boils down survival questions to these four: WHO is the core customer (most likely to buy your product or service in the quantity required for optimal profit)? What do you do: Send an email? Call an all-hands-on-deck meeting?

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CRM Tools Competitive Advantage Simon 172

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 16, 2016

We’re the ones who have to clean up the messes he makes when he freaks out, intimidates, or even runs off someone on our team, and we’re the ones who have to make sure that our agents are bringing in the numbers in spite of Cam’s leadership, not because of it. Rich stared at Sergio with raised eyebrows. Agnes waved her hand. Right, sugar?”.

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CRM Competitive Advantage Fashion Follow-up 40

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 16, 2016

We’re the ones who have to clean up the messes he makes when he freaks out, intimidates, or even runs off someone on our team, and we’re the ones who have to make sure that our agents are bringing in the numbers in spite of Cam’s leadership, not because of it. Rich stared at Sergio with raised eyebrows. Agnes waved her hand. Right, sugar?”.

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CRM Competitive Advantage Fashion Follow-up 40

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 9, 2016

We’re the ones who have to clean up the messes he makes when he freaks out, intimidates, or even runs off someone on our team, and we’re the ones who have to make sure that our agents are bringing in the numbers in spite of Cam’s leadership, not because of it. Rich stared at Sergio with raised eyebrows. Agnes waved her hand. Right, sugar?”.

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CRM Competitive Advantage Fashion Follow-up 40

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2013

Your job is to understand the process and create your own questions based on your product, service, customer needs, and customer’s desired outcome. ” Emotion-based questions draw out feelings – feelings that will lead to true engagement and honest answers about how your product or service will affect their expected outcome.

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Open-book Customer Loyalty Seminar Price 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. The CoE has worked with IT and purchasing to procure a global set of tools for social media management, which are also integrated with our CRM systems. But where and how do you start?

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Your R&D group develops a unique new product. A sales model that pays salespeople almost entirely on commission and gives them exclusive "ownership" of customers often works for a while for products in unsaturated markets. Manufacturing produces it. Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in.

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Company Market Penetration Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

There has been even more stability in analytical leadership, change management, and culture, and in many cases those remain the toughest problems to address. They might draw from CRM systems to evaluate the lifetime value of a customer, for example, or optimize pricing based on supply chain systems about available inventory.

Open-book 8

Open-book Software Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Managements may want to dramatically improve productivity but they're decidedly mixed about comparably increasing their accountability. Or do they identify the productivity pathogens that must quickly and cost-effectively be organizationally excised? The arguments over numbers are really fights over accountability and its consequences.

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Resistance Organization Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

They have an even harder time admitting that the answer might be new leadership. As a venture begins achieving a solid foothold in the marketplace, it needs different leadership capabilities to create maximum shareholder value. Resistance to change must be overcome. Minimize the handover period.

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CEO Tacit Knowledge Chief Technology Officer How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Sales professionals make decisions every day about what prospects and customers they will be meeting with, what products or services they will highlight in their pitches, and even what elements of your value proposition they will emphasize. Focus the team on creating value beyond the products and services it sells. McKinsey & Co.

Strategy 8

Strategy Execution How To CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

For example, they may involve taking inputs from emails or spreadsheets, processing the information by applying certain rules, and then entering the output into some other business systems, such as an ERP or a CRM. The second area of opportunity with cognitive automation is for companies to develop new products and services.

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Disaggregation Insurance Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Companies fail to get the most out of the $12 billion a year they spend on sales enablement tools and the billions more on CRM technology. But good planning and proper leadership support can help. To spur growth, the company committed to a strategy of diversifying their product offering.

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Execution Cost CRM Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2015

For example, 52% of high- performing salespeople indicated they were power users who take full advantage of their company’s CRM technology and internal systems compared to only 31% of underperforming salespeople. Underperformers tend to use their managers to make up for the product and industry knowledge they lack.

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Comparison Morale CRM Influence 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Management Skills: Motivating, leadership, problem-solving, etc. Productivity. Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Before we deep dive into some of the key skills to include on a resume, let’s first look at the several types of job skills : Basic Skills: Speaking, listening, readings, writing, etc. Conflict management .

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Skills Six Sigma Software CRM 111

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system. The next phase of the BMW Startup Garage process involved whittling down startups to find those that have a strategically relevant technology, product, or service.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

They ran productive meetings. Managing for Value – Governance, change management, organizational culture, communication, leadership. One of the best summaries of Quality Management was written my Edward Deming: Create consistency of purpose toward the improvement of product and service, and communicate this goal to all employees.

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Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

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. I don’t mean what time you get up in the morning, I mean what time you get into productivity mode. Breakfast is the easiest and most productive time to make a sales call, and build a relationship.

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CRM Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Books 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One company failed to leverage its data on relative productivity of sales reps across geographies and inefficiently allocated scarce sales resources to the right growth opportunities. Getting there requires leadership to invest time and resources into acquiring the right data, systems, and people to build these new capabilities.

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CRM Content Power Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

It’s an inside-out process and CRM systems are there to provide data about progression (or not) through that company’s funnel steps — the famous “pipeline” metrics that dominate so much talk about sales. In each step, sales people are expected to perform a series of tasks, usually sequentially, in order to close.

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B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Interoperating with supply chain software and CRM technologies used by big customers in Europe and America is already underway. Chinese industries don't just need to become more productive; they want to be more innovative. But to the extent that Web 2.0

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Innovation Supply Chain Politics CRM 15