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The Business Plan Is Alive And Well But It May Not Be What You Think

Steve Shu Consulting

See a popular post of mine, “ In Consulting The Process Is An Essential Part Of The Deliverable “ Business plan as a sales document - This situation is particularly appropriate for fund raising (e.g., angels, VCs). technology feasibility, commercial feasibility, ramp-up). for government grants).

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

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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How to Steer the Conversation When Someone Asks for a Specific Backlog Item Prediction, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

” That's a backlog/marketing/sales problem. By product, where they assign a team to a product for a long period of time. By person, where they take one person from here and one person from there, etc, to create enough people to work on the product. They should consider stopping the effort (project or product) now.

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STAR Method

CaseInterview.com

The resume might read: * Increased sales by $10 million. If asked about this in an interview, the candidate might say, "WE increased sales by $10 million in a single year.". Both candidates list on their resumes that they "grew sales by $10 million in 1 year.". So from his point of view, "we" generated $10 million in sales.

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Win Over Value Buyers and Key Mistakes to Avoid

LSA Global

How to Win Over Value Buyers + Key Mistakes to Avoid Studies highlighted by our microlearning experts show that more than half of all sales prospects are value buyers who focus on achieving measurable business outcomes. To win their business and win over value buyers, sales reps must behave differently.

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Consultant Marketing Juggernaut

Jerry Fletcher

Blog and Newslog development to include recording and editing audio and video components and uploading them to Vimeo and YouTube Books, for example one for entrepreneurs on how to use speaking to build a business Speaking professionally requires a great deal of sales activity. Don’t waste production time. Lots of content.

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Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation

Johanna Rothman

Let's assume everyone works together, on one project (product, if you prefer). So, let's assume the team spends a total of 4 hours planning, retrospecting, demoing, all that non-creation time out of the 40 hours the team works. I would add demoing in as value creation, but I'm not sure how accountants categorize feedback loops.