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The New World Of Enterprise Sales

Strategy Driven

The enterprise sales practice has been highly affected by technological change, in a mostly positive manner. On the other hand, sales is still sales – and it is all about gaining the trust of the buyer with a product or solution that will fulfill their needs. The products gained in functionality and became more expensive.

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Federal Contracts Depend on Your Report Card

Women on Business

A CPAR is not required on every contract – generally, only on contracts over $100,000 – but the threshold varies for some services, such as ship repair ($500,000), Information Technology ($1 million), and a few other categories. Did the quality of your products or services meet/exceed the contract? Were subcontractors well managed?

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

and Mike Myatt, Productivity links. Productivity links said: n2growth.com: Looking For Leadership: By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Really? We must slow down the technology speed and its consequences. The trick is to separate the wheat from the chaff and then to put the valuable items to productive use.

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What a Big-Data Business Model Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

Together with the complementary technology forces of social, mobile, the cloud, and unified communications, big data brings countless new opportunities for learning about customers and their wants and needs. For a decade or so now, we've seen technology and data bring new levels of personalization and relevance.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. Even more impressively, their spin out Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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What Groupon and LivingSocial Cannot Offer

Harvard Business Review

Now, thousands of companies are jumping on the latest trend trying to generate buzz for their products. The costs are clearly high, but companies with products that tend to generate early buzz seem to do very well. I'd say it does, but only if the product you are selling delivers real value. Success begets success.