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B2B CX – Strategy & Business Alignment

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For B2B companies, the complexity of sales cycles, long-term contracts, and multiple decision-makers makes it imperative to align CX strategy with overall business objectives. Customer expectations are changing Todays B2B customers expect seamless interactions, self-service options, and personalized service just like in B2C.

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Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: The Top 7

LSA Global

Foundational business sales training should include a primer on business acumen : key business drivers, financial metrics, and industry-specific trends. Collaboration Across Functions In most B2B sales environments, selling is a team sport. They must understand how to engage and align with cross-functional teams.

Sales 62
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Ban These 5 Words From Your Corporate Values Statement

Harvard Business

Practically every organization today has a set of core values that ideally function as the “operating instructions” of the company. Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established.

Ethics 135
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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

To measure human capital, you can deploy metrics such as our productive power index , which looks at the cost of organizational drag and the benefits of effective talent and energy management on your overall productive power. Consider the case of one B2B supplier that wanted to figure out what made some salespeople top performers.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. We’ve referred to this phenomenon as corporate robo-advisers , and we see more of them all the time.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Brocade’s Net Promoter Score went from 50 (already a best in class score) to 62 (one of the highest B2B scores on record) within 18 months. The metrics also changed. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.” The results?

Marketing 135
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You Don’t Need an “India Strategy” — You Need a Strategy for Each State in India

Harvard Business

Based on our experience of working with numerous companies operating in India across different industries, we find that a simple yet powerful four-step framework helps companies effectively prioritize markets in the country: Step 1: Measure risk-adjusted opportunity. Step 2: Measure operating environment.