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Using Analytics to Align Sales and Marketing Teams

Harvard Business

Then, just days after receiving the quote, the manager gets an unsolicited email from the software company’s marketing team offering a better deal. At the same time, the software company has wasted time and resources on duplicate, uncoordinated, and ineffective marketing and sales outreach.

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Fixing Pharma’s Incentives Problem in the Wake of the U.S. Opioid Crisis

Harvard Business

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. And what can we learn from it?

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Sales Bonuses Are Supposed to Motivate, So Don’t Waste Them on Easy Targets

Harvard Business

The belief is that at-risk pay motivates salespeople to work hard and direct effort towards sales activities that encourage achievement of sales goals. sales forces, but the mix varies across industries and sales roles. Within an industry or company, pay mix often varies across sales roles.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. sales force teams. Where did ZS Associates begin, and what are they known for?

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Although it started as a tiny group, paling in comparison to the bohemoth revenues of the firm’s hardware sales, this group is now known as IBM Global Services (IGS) which is responsible for 50% of IBM’s revenue globally. Marketing Sales & Service. Financial Markets. IGS has 5 divisions/branches.

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What Should an Apple Car Be?

Harvard Business

With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. Some of them may never enter the car market, or may at least significantly delay a move toward ownership. Apple has a great intuitive feel for how consumers see a market, versus how manufacturers see it. Or a kitchen?

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