LSA Global

MARCH 23, 2017

Designing and delivering solution selling training with sales teams over the last two decades, we have seen that most solution sellers have absorbed and put into practice the idea that value can trump price. Many sales reps then try in vain to convince the customer of “the value” to justify a higher price.

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Sales Training Training Finance 37

Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Examples include: Sending regular reports to make sure each client understands what value has been created for them Having defined touchpoints with each client Training your team on how you want them to engage with the client Having a customer satisfaction manager whose only job it is to keep your clients satisfied.

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How To Cash Flow Talent Training 52

Tom Spencer

JULY 15, 2015

If prices are changed, how will this affect sales volume and product perception? Declining sales volume. Faced with falling sales volume, there are four growth strategies that a business might choose to employ: market penetration, market development, product development, and diversification. Procurement. HR Management.

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Case Interview Operations Sales Analysis 60

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 6, 2021

work to improve the current process and eliminate unnecessary work optimize the remaining processes to be effective and efficient, using tools like Lean Management or Six Sigma. However, we recommend controlling external marketing spend at an early stage and at times it distracts from doing the actual grinding on execution and sales.

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Consulting Financial Boston Consulting Group Operations 52

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The senior manager has P&L (Profit and Loss) responsibility for the entire product line, including Product Management (for this product line), Customer Support, Training, etc. Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. Product lines use flow efficiency thinking. What do you do?

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Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 65

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Risk Management – assists CFOs and other finance executives on matters of finance and risk, global risk and trading, and compliance and governance.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 31, 2019

Too often otherwise good sales reps fail because they just haven’t learned to stop talking and start listening. The objective of basic sales questions is to identify what your prospect actually wants. By asking more questions and listening even more, you can take any sales conversation to a higher level. By Ken Lizotte CMC.

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Sales Conference Industry Productivity 40

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Founded in 1989 by three former consultants of the MAC Group (a boutique sales and distribution consulting firm), Cornerstone Research was established to be very different than the general management consulting firm it was birthed from; focused on unique clients, managing delicate client relationships, and offering specialized work.

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Interviews Research Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

The company has also hired hundreds of workers to revamp production processes, train (and retrain) the robots, and swap them out when needed, among other tasks. Some Training Required. In addition, Adidas flew employees to Germany for training, to work with the specialized AI-based robotic machinery. To be precise, my mistake.

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Engineering Training Training Analysis 39

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

At age 41, I am where I want to be in my career: running my own sales-training business, with enough clients lined up that I can probably live comfortably for the next several years. When I was younger, I used to hate how most sales trainers spoke. odla3D/Getty Images. But I’m in trouble. Every Gen Xer is.

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freshminds

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Being a critical business analyst is at the heart of management consulting - seeking out valuable data and generating new ideas to maximise efficiency and profit within companies. But there's no escaping it – today we are all members of a highly digital world and the new heights to which digital can reach just keep jumping forward.

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Data Analysis Accenture Tools 42

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

and status of financial commitments – commitments like sales orders, purchase orders, payroll, inventory, shipping, and taxes. Helps federal agencies solve complex business issues, manage risk, and improve financial measures and the overall quality, efficiency and effectiveness of public service. Internal Firm Services (IFS).

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 43

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Moreover, long-term investments — such as reducing carbon emissions, developing blockbuster drugs, or training workers — benefit more than just shareholders. This is taught in any Finance 101 class, and is presumably what McKinsey advises its clients. Could the investment cuts actually be efficient?

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Study McKinsey Efficiency Government 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Don’t optimize for efficiency. In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 47

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk.

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Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 45

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? Alternatively, human resources might be the right place.

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Company Ethics Resources Data 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. But it reduced the compensation of salespeople who were less efficient but ultimately more valuable—causing them to defect to competitors.

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Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

An early in-house program called A16 treated 16 junior architects to 16 weeks of intensive training, including knowledge mentorship from highly experienced architects. For example, many top sales people know clients personally; subject matter experts know others in their field.

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Development Education Engineering Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Higher pay throughout the industry helped lead to more sales, creating a virtuous cycle of growth and prosperity. Companies play a key role in promoting growth through investment and innovation as well as supporting their workforce through training programs. Could we be at another Henry Ford moment?

Retail 28

Retail Financial Productivity Trends 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

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Change Management Management Software Productivity 44

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” Decentralization is the norm in this industry.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Construction 28