In 2014, then-President Barack Obama gave a speech on the importance of building infrastructure for future virus-borne pandemics. His predecessor, President George W. Bush, delivered similar speeches as they related to HIV and SARS viruses. The following two successive administrations each were and are plagued with the inability to get infrastructure planning right. As a …
Compress. A word that has often been used in business. Compressed files. Compression thinking. To compress and flatten organizational structures. A myriad of uses meant to communicate reduction. It is an adequate word to use when thinking about important takeaways from 2020. A year in which a decade’s worth of future buyer trends was compressed …
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Some of our all-time favorite movies involve an actress or actor transforming into a character that made them entirely unrecognizable. Through the use of make-up, prosthetics, and costumes, an actor and actress can perform as a historical or fantastical figure. A most recent example is the 2019 movie, Judy. Which was about the life of …
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Especially since the beginning of the pandemic, digital commerce is growing at lightning speed. Putting pressure on B2B Executives to transform their businesses. No longer can they wait with a long view. Commerce models that have been relied on for the past twenty to thirty years are giving way to a new robust era of …
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A hot buzzword during the past couple of years has been digital transformation. It has branched off a few more in the world of marketing and sales: Martech Transformation Sales Transformation CX Transformation Customer Engagement Transformation I am sure there are more. At the risk of being a buzz killer, there is something amiss about …
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For the past few decades, solution-based selling was the dominant theme in building sales organizations. Solution-selling methodologies and training proved to be a big business. B2B organizations reworked their sales organization and invested heavily to be more consultative with buyers. B2B entities are finding it hard to let go and prepare for sales transformation in …
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(This was one of the most popular articles written in 2017. It is profoundly applicable to this year – 2018. Buyer insights into how buyers make choices and decisions remain critical.) Many executives, particularly Chief Marketing Officers, are in constant pursuit of understanding changing buyer behaviors and markets. Which, for the most part, remains an …
Every couple of years, a new acronym or buzzword takes a foothold in the world of marketing. ABM, the acronym for Account-Based Marketing, is the latest rage. It is an example of how an old concept can be recycled and be claimed anew again. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, ABS, the acronym for Account-Based Sales, …
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Many executives, particularly Chief Marketing Officers, are in constant pursuit of understanding changing buyer behaviors and markets. Which, for the most part, remains an elusive and challenging endeavor. In the past ten plus years, we have seen a tumultuous upheaval in both the world of buyers and how marketing is adapting. As business leaders and …
B2B companies are faced with the most transformative era in business history. On a greater scale than that of the first Industrial Revolution over a century ago, we are witnessing a technological and digital revolution that will disrupt business-to-business profoundly in the next 10 years. The scale of which is still unpredictable and undoubtedly will …
