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Five Ways to Position Your Business to Weather Recession

Makarios Consulting

If you are a B2B company, connecting with your customers is usually as straightforward as getting on the phone or making an in-person visit with your clients to have informal (but informative) conversations. Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. Then, give each one due consideration.

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Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy: A Blueprint for Success

LSA Global

According to Accenture, 80% of B2B customers will change providers at least every two years if their expectations aren’t understood and met. Stay agile and proactive, regularly reassess your approach, and incorporate feedback to maintain a competitive edge.

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Five Ways to Position Your Business to Weather Recession

Makarios Consulting

If you are a B2B company, connecting with your customers is usually as straightforward as getting on the phone or making an in-person visit with your clients to have informal (but informative) conversations. Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. Then, give each one due consideration.

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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together

Harvard Business

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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How to Become a Future-Ready Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY

Harvard Business

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries.

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Every Organizational Function Needs to Work on Digital Transformation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GARTNER

Harvard Business

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance.

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What Sales Teams Should Do to Prepare for the Next Recession

Harvard Business

Our recent benchmarking of nearly 900 B2B companies underscores the importance of these tools. A B2B technology supplier used Microsoft Workplace Analytics and other digital tools to track the behaviors of its sales reps. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession. Raise the game in pricing.

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