Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2017

But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing. As alarming as those numbers are, they shouldn’t come as a surprise if you consider how sales training is usually conducted. Here are some ways to incorporate better technology into training: Before.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Are you aiming to increase sales, improve customer satisfaction, or boost employee retention? For example, if your goal is to increase sales, your L&D programs might focus on enhancing sales techniques, product knowledge, or customer relationship management skills. Knowledge retention from eLearning courses.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. We’ll focus here on what the sales organization should be doing now to prepare for the next recession, with an eye toward using new digital tools.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Customer relationship management software revolutionized how companies manage their sales pipelines. It also allowed organizations to communicate and coordinate more effectively across large sales account teams. Now a new breed of software applications is reshaping sales force management. Insight Center.

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Consulting Success

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Transform your failures into success in no time by implementing sales systems that will work for you. Description: Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences around the world. Without a passion for journalism, he knew he needed to make a career change and graduated into sales.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 26, 2010

Nilofer’s book addresses the gap in business texts regarding the latter topic, which includes day-to-day and quarter-to-quarter strategies, such as “how do we grow sales of product XYZ” or “how do we grow sales of division Y by Q%?” As she writes, “One person’ strategy is another’s tactics.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Two elements of it have caught some attention: Snap’s statement that it is a “camera company,” and its intention to reinvest its revenues in developing new products that will take significant time and expense, but which it believes it can develop faster than competitors. Don’t Confuse Products and Platforms.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The capacity of HHI is superior to its competitors — a four-kilometer Ulsan shipyard with nine huge “Goliath Cranes,” 16,000 well-trained and experienced people in production, R&D, management, and administration, and the ability to manufacture any ship of any size with superb quality and the highest deadweight tonnage in the world.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

Retailers and manufacturers are rushing out new products to keep pace with the leaders of fast fashion such as Zara, H&M, and Forever 21, which launch new fashions every week or so. In a store, however, a sales associate tries to guess a shopper’s tastes in real time. Myth: The sales channel doesn’t matter.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

and how the work is accomplished, the flow by which products and services are created and delivered (e.g., This guidebook is your crash course on how to BEST position yourself as a consultant to the senior team in the C-Suite. Business Strategy : The organization’s formula for winning (e.g., goals, objectives, values, etc.).

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2021

Your heart won't be in it, and your clients will know that you are trying to land them for the sale and not out of a heart of service. B2C Business - Offer advice, inspiration, programs, products, and services sought out and paid for by an individual who is seeking to improve their own life, career, or personally owned boutique business.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Many leaders look at profit margin, which measures the total amount by which revenue from sales exceeds costs. But if you want to understand how a specific product contributes to the company’s profit, you need to look at contribution margin. You might think of this as the portion of sales that helps to offset fixed costs.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

What are the personal attributes, attitudes, and actions that influence personal sales productivity? I recently conducted an extensive study of more than 1,000 salespeople and sales management leaders to determine the attributes of top sales professionals–those who achieved more than 125% of their assigned quota last year.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 19, 2022

Electric Vehicles Production and Sales Will Grow. EVs are going to gain higher market shares in Europe, the United States and China and outpace ICE vehicles sales. Let’s consider some of the trends setting the course of automotive business according to Gartner [5]. . What else should we expect in 2022?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Think hard before blindly committing to another sales pitch. They become promoters because they’re delighted with your products or service, and maybe the entire experience surrounding the product. You have earned the right to ask them for another sale. Not so fast. Not so with detractors.

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Harvard Business

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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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

This, of course, was not an entirely new idea. They designed an eight-week course to teach graduate students about Steve’s methods. Graduate students would serve as entrepreneurial leads and would go through the course with their professors and a business mentor. From Product Development to Customer Development.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. But after listening to you and your podcast and understanding that I do have value in different ways than they would; that's the thing that set me on the course. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Product marketing: For this, the CMO pulls all of the analysis and insights from all of the customer-facing resources of the organization to support and co-design specific solutions with the product organization. In many cases, the incapacity to successfully support the sales operations has been the downfall of a CMO.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

At its most basic, productivity is the amount of value produced divided by the amount of cost (or time) required to do so. It’s tempting to conclude that, if individuals are able to perform their work much better and faster, overall productivity must be soaring. sales-related, product-related, program-related, etc.).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Yet despite these high stakes, and the growing adoption of sophisticated analytics, many retailers continue to take a broad-brush approach to running promotions that results in missed sales and profits. When are discounts most likely to stimulate a sufficient sales response? Not all items a retailer sells are created equal.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Killing products isn’t easy. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. In our five-year study of global handset makers , we found that most firms pull products when they turn out to be obvious disasters such as the Note 7. Know the big picture.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 1, 2019

Directing your prospect to online information about your services (what I call a Sales Letter). But the most neglected part of this process is that durn* sales letter. Why a sales letter is absolutely essential. Why a sales letter is absolutely essential. However… What should go into your sales letter?

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. But after listening to you and your podcast and understanding that I do have value in different ways than they would; that's the thing that set me on the course. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2018

While most for-profit companies start with product and then subsequently segment customers based on profit potential (higher lifetime value and lower acquisition costs), the most successful nonprofits commit first to reaching an underserved population, which often includes higher acquisition costs and lower lifetime value.

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Kai Davis

MAY 30, 2020

Crafting and testing a productized offer is an iterative process. You’re going to start with your best guess, collect information and feedback through research, interviews, and conversations, and then use your findings to craft the next version of your productized offer. What goes into the scope of your offer?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

retail market at less than 10% as of the first quarter of 2017, online sales are growing at almost 10% per year. One retailer I know saw a 35% bump in sales when it gave customers the option of picking up merchandise in its stores that they had bought online.). Census Bureau puts e-commerce’s share of the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 20, 2017

At Wells Fargo, for example, employees delivered higher sales numbers by secretly creating millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts — an unethical path toward results that has very high long-term costs. However, employees can achieve their results in different ways.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

billion to escape what Musk calls the “manufacturing hell” the company is now experiencing in its transition from small batch car making to mass production. In the meantime, of course, there’s no guarantee that Tesla will be the winner in any automotive technology arms race.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Firms are scrambling to hire a new brand of analysts dubbed “data scientists,” and universities have responded to this demand by introducing data science courses into degrees ranging from computer science to business. The traditional way of solving this problem is using time-series econometrics with historical sales data.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

As pressure intensifies to reduce prices, either by cutting the list price or offering a discount, managers may act hastily, without the same rigor they apply to investments elsewhere, such as capital deployment or product enhancements. All too often they don’t.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

The companies with the greatest value from IoT to date are the best at dealing with how products are performing for customers. Of course, every company eventually gets the truth about how its products and services are performing for customers. ” Product performance data must be processed and acted upon quickly.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. Instead of organizing by function, consider a product-oriented organization. Again, I am not saying this is the only way a product organization would look, but this is a possibility. What do you do?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. The participants rarely felt they were wasting their time.

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