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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

Because you have nothing better to do with your time and resources? Projects become “cost centers,” and everyone knows that organizational cost centers have a much harder time getting resources than “profit centers.” Because you need to get rid of all that money? But without doing such an analysis, how can we even start?

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Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools for Your Business [2024]

Epicflow

Capacity planning is a crucial practice for organizations aiming to optimize resources, adapt to changing business needs, and deliver projects on time and within budget. However, with an increasing number of projects and limited resources engaged in other projects, effective capacity planning becomes a significant challenge.

Tools 253
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Integrating Digital Tools into Every Stage of Your Sales Strategy

Harvard Business

Digital tools powered by relevant data can help to generate customer insights, better allocate sales resources, facilitate channel interactions, and improve brand value. But, like any tool, digital systems are only as good as their users.

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Effective Manufacturing Operations Management in 2024

Epicflow

The purpose of inventory management is to make sure that the right material resources are available when needed, minimize storage costs, and reduce the risk of stockouts. Enhancing Resource Management Effective resource management is the key to maximizing production efficiency and optimizing costs. Supply chain management.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

Nurturing leads through your sales funnel is a daunting task for many business development teams, especially at the scale required to achieve lofty growth goals. But personalized prospecting is possible at scale with the right resources in place. These 16 plays are aligned to different stages of the sales funnel.

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How to Retain Your Best Sales Talent

Harvard Business

A recent study found that 56% of sales professionals are actively job hunting.

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business

So how can you improve your sales skills, especially if you don’t pitch people often? And what should you do if you lose a sale? “Many of them tell me that sales is something they never want to do in their careers.” ” And yet, he says, “Sales is the most fundamental skill.”

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The 5 Stages of Account-Based Marketing — and How to Win Them All

The benefits of account-based marketing are clear: internal alignment, shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates. Running an ABM program on data you don’t trust means wasted time, resources, and lost revenue. But none of this is possible without the most important element of a successful ABM program: good data.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. Database benchmarks for education and resource prioritization. 47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement.

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The 2019 Technographic Data Report for B2B Sales Organizations

In this report, ZoomInfo substantiates the assertion that technographic data is a vital resource for sales teams. The reason for this is simple—sales teams value technographic data because it makes essential selling activities easier and more efficient. In fact, the majority of respondents agree—with 72.3%