Remove Development Remove Finance Remove Sales Remove Sports
article thumbnail

How to Build a Better Sales Playbook

LSA Global

What Is a Sales Playbook? Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Strategy.

Sales 28
article thumbnail

Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

In my consulting work, I’ve seen business unit managers unable to achieve the market share goals mandated by the CEO because they couldn’t get the IT support for new product development software; Finance and HR support to hire the necessary material scientists; and Operations support to rapidly qualify new suppliers.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Virtual and Augmented Reality Will Reshape Retail

Harvard Business

And neither of you is anywhere near a sporting goods store. Retailers looking to develop a virtual commerce strategy should consider breaking it down along the following dimensions. Doing so will keep you nimble at meeting consumer needs with a still-developing technology. Your buddy is in Houston.

Retail 28
article thumbnail

What Should an Apple Car Be?

Harvard Business

Apple is so great at connectivity, aesthetics, and entertainment that any vehicle they develop will incorporate these as table stakes. One way to appeal to this demographic (and to the parents who often finance young drivers’ transportation) is to focus on safety. To me, the minivan is the guiding light. Or a kitchen?

Sports 34
article thumbnail

Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. But one person had given him the lowest ratings possible, and from the written remarks, Lance could tell that it was Ahmed Lund, Barker’s head of sales. “You’re surprised?”

article thumbnail

There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. This is also true of executives.

Metrics 45
article thumbnail

FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. The FTI Technology practice played a substantial role in the Major League Baseball steroids investigation that both news and sports casters covered religiously. Corporate Finance/Restructuring.