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Using Analytics to Align Sales and Marketing Teams

Harvard Business

At the same time, the software company has wasted time and resources on duplicate, uncoordinated, and ineffective marketing and sales outreach. Companies need an orchestrator to ensure marketing and sales outreach is well-coordinated and aligned with customer buying needs. The buying process is no longer linear or consistent.

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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. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.

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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. Consumer Products. Howe created the IBM Consulting Group in 1992.

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Research: Innovation Suffers When Drug Companies Merge

Harvard Business

Regulators try to model how prices, sales, and even the combining parties’ research and development efforts will change after a merger. That can benefit consumers through lower prices, more innovation, and better products. And so pharmaceutical firms appear to be benefitting from regulators’ incomplete decision process.

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Rising Robots: Is it Obvious Robots Cost Human Jobs? Looking for Someone to Blame?

MishTalk

In the US, as long as cars sales remain strong, it appears auto jobs will stay. Contrast that with the three lowest usages of pharmaceuticals, food, and plastics. Robot Sales Robot sales are up, and so is job growth in the US. It''s obvious robots increase productivity. How long will that be? Why Robots?

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A Pharma Playbook for Success in Southeast Asia

BCG

To capture the immense opportunities in emerging markets, pharmaceutical companies require highly targeted strategies. By 2020, emerging markets will account for more than 30% of pharmaceutical sales growth worldwide. Southeast Asia alone is expected to generate $40 billion in pharmaceutical sales by 2020.