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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

Document, assess, and streamline your pricing processes and pricing artifacts as you go along. Agencies may use common cookie-cutter pricing templates and common documentation requirements, especially when issuing a large volume of task order requests from the same IDIQ vehicle. What do you do then? Why reinvent the wheel?

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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Detecting and understanding customer intent can give brands clarity into what a customer is trying to do beyond what they are saying or clicking on, whether it’s an upsell opportunity, a chance to deepen the customer relationship, increase customer retention, enhance a product or service, or something else.

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Is Your Business Ready to be Sold?

Martinka Consulting

Is it expertise, the products, services, process, or IP? Things like car, travel, non-market rent, etc. And don’t forget the landlord and the buyer’s lease, which needs to be at least as long as any note (bank or your financing) as nobody wants the buyer forced out while owing money. “Do Know these things. Letter of Intent.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. ” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Classify the Problem Before You Decide on a Solution. Consider the case of Google Glass.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business

And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. “My guess is that one hundred percent of United’s employees are superconsumers of travel,” he said.

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