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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. When I started my career, the most profitable application of force was in sales. Back in the 1990s, sales reps had a lot of information, while customers had relatively little. Sales reps leveraged that information gap to create a lot of trust.

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Trend Watching 2018 The Year of Convergence

Cheryl Cran

now in 2018 we are going to see even more ‘outing’ of inappropriate, inexcusable and intolerant attitudes and behaviors. What we are going to see for trends in 2018 has a theme which is ‘convergence’ the melding of science/health/technology at a higher level than we have seen as a human collective.

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Institute of Management Consultants Announces New Chair and Directors of the Board

IMC USA

June 5, 2018 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) announces the election of Juan A. CMC is a consultant with The Dallas Marketing Group and specializes in marketing, market research, strategic planning, sales, operations and product development in tech, medical devices and health care.

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A framework for understanding technology companies

Tom Spencer

In 2018, tech firms take seven of the top ten spots (Financial Times Global 500). Amazon, Microsoft and Apple also employ platforms in their business models, in the form of online marketplaces, operating systems, application stores, and hardware that link buyers and sellers, or developers and users.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Record number of small business sales in 2018! PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Magazine – 65-75% of small companies in the US – some 10 million – likely hang up a “for sale” sign in the next 10 years (2015).

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Driverless technology: a soon-to-be reality?

Tom Spencer

The advantages of collaborating are clear: it reduces costs, lowers risk and allows carmakers to share in the expertise already gathered by these tech firms, all of which speeds up the time it takes to bring products to market. There is a strong sense among carmakers that they need to innovate or risk becoming obsolete.

Industry 106