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Transforming Commerce: Chief Commercial Officer Search

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of a Chief Commercial Officer In the complex world of corporate leadership, a Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) holds a pivotal role. This position is often seen as the linchpin of a company’s commercial strategy, controlling marketing, sales, and customer service efforts to achieve optimal success.

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Measuring Your Employees’ Invisible Forms of Influence

Harvard Business Review

Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential. Specifically, traditional organizational reporting structures limit managers’ visibility into how their employees are influencing and contributing to other teams.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas.

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If You Don't Want To Influence Others, You Can't Lead

Harvard Business Review

The division had just introduced a line of products aimed at an important new market segment. Since the company sold primarily through direct marketing, the design of such materials as catalogs — and, increasingly, web pages — had a direct impact on sales. Ask yourself: Do I want to influence others ?

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Improving Your Sales Force: Fine-tune or Transform?

Harvard Business Review

Several operational levers influence sales team activity to help you achieve these ends, including the following. focus more effort on specific market segments), tweaks to sales force size or structure (e.g. close a vacant territory in a low growth market) or small modifications to hiring profiles (e.g.

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Don't Live Your Life, Lead It

Harvard Business Review

It's far more likely that you and the people who influence you use the former. More than a century after Thoreau, a prominent leadership researcher echoed this insight with empirical evidence , noting that ".an Marketers segment you, target you, and analyze you. Are you more apt to say "I live my life."

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business Review

Today, the ability to measure data and adjust strategies in real-time enables marketing to prove its value to the business in entirely new ways. Cisco has created a real-time, online dashboard where the entire marketing organization can look at performance.