LSA Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Does Your Sales Team Need to Learn How to Better Sell Value? Sales experts the world over tout the benefits of learning how to better sell value. Business sales training studies of both buyers and sellers report a recurrent theme – the importance of value. Create a Healthy, High Performing, and Aligned Sales Culture.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing. Studies indicate that participants in traditional curriculum-based training forget more than 80 percent of the information they were taught within 90 days.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

One research study suggests that followers contribute on average 80% to the success of an organization. A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

His consulting group focuses mainly on sales enablement and marketing, and they have been in the business since 1995. In this episode, we talk about the path that led Tony to sales and consulting, and he shares insights into creating a successful consulting firm within the corporate world. Were you in a sales role as youngster?

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Take the MIT Media Lab’s experiment to see whether it could estimate retail sales performance on “Black Friday,” the day following the US Thanksgiving holiday. Combining this with data on average spend per shopper enabled them to estimate a retailer’s sales , even before the company had recorded it themselves.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. In fact, she was getting pressure from her boss to spend more time with her counterparts in other divisions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire. Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. Both have advantages.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 6, 2011

Such as, a small nonprofit puts a link to Amazon on their website, because they get a few pennies back from each book sale as part of the "associates" program. On a larger scale, it could be the logo of a national organization placed on items or the marketing of a national chain store. Now, I have a little bit of evidence.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 30, 2020

I started my own business due to the] uncertainty in the job market. I would like to have my foundation set up before I start marketing myself. Reinventing the wheel for a proven tool or methodology or technique. Now the biggest challenge - marketing! Through cost reductions, I was released from the company.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. But what happens in smaller markets or with smaller clients?

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

A great deal of research — using methodologies such as resume studies and other models — has found that employer discrimination and prejudice plays a large role in creating this gap. Consumer discrimination in the labor market has not been extensively studied, but other research has borne this out.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Startups are often focused on disrupting existing markets, occasionally bending the rules while doing so. We recruited 250 experienced purchasing and sales managers and allocated them between the experiments. Their employees need to overcome demanding challenges, including the need to draft processes and responsibilities from scratch.

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Consulting Success

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Transform your failures into success in no time by implementing sales systems that will work for you. Description: Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences around the world. Without a passion for journalism, he knew he needed to make a career change and graduated into sales.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

A New York Fed study notes a huge surge in subprime auto loans after taking into account a newer, more accurate methodology. Wells Fargo, one of the largest subprime car lenders, is pulling back from that roaring market, a move that is being felt throughout the broader auto industry. billion, bank executives said.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 24, 2017

Unless your case studies show your potential clients that you’re capable of solving their problem, they are nothing but wasted space on your website. Your website’s copy certainly helps — but case studies provide an extra layer of credibility. Winning New Clients Through Your Case Studies.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Marketing & Sales. Each company faces substantial challenges in the every evolving face of marketing due to consumer trends and industry dynamics. Firm hires 2,000th employee. Organization & Transformation.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

I studied arts and it was my initial formal training. That led to a ten-year longitudinal study of more than 2,700 leaders. Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote. It’s a very crowded market out there. I was out working in Europe.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. I was immediately captivated by the dynamic and fascinating world of consulting, and began taking interest in studying cases. My group chose to examine the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

The shadow sector, or informal economy, includes everything from illicit sidewalk sales of counterfeit handbags to large corporations that evade taxes and ignore regulations. In a recent project we studied a foundational issue: the relationship between licit and illicit economies. yangleephoto/Multi-bits/Getty Images.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 17, 2016

In the last article, we gave you an introduction to case interview frameworks and laid out our 4 frameworks: Market Sizing. Market Study. 1 – Market Sizing. The interviewer wants you to measure the existing market of an item in total sales or total units. 2) How big is the car market in Mexico?

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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The Fearless Marketer

JUNE 10, 2019

It would be nice to think that there’s a secret strategy for implementing your marketing both successfully and consistently. Yes, there are marketing systems and methodologies. But there is no perfect system for marketing success (or any kind of success, for that matter). The map or plan to do this seems simple enough.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

He had spent his entire 14-year career at the company, had worked hard, and had rapidly climbed the ranks in sales and marketing. In a related study, I found that leaders making internal moves between units in their companies rated the difficulty of their transitions an average of 70% as hard as joining a new company.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. Where did ZS Associates begin, and what are they known for?

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The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 16, 2020

That’s a perfect marketing and selling opportunity, right? So, two things: What are those questions and how do you answer them as quickly and effectively as possible to speed up the sale of your professional service? What are your underlying methodologies? But can you prove it with examples, data, and case studies?

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with. Since its 2005 founding, the marketing company had grown to over 1,100 employees. Adobe’s New York office had been growing due to its acquisitions of smaller technology companies.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 13, 2020

He wants to understand the different customer segments to tailor the next marketing strategy. Within a cluster analysis, one widely used methodology is K-Means Clustering, where K represents the number of clusters to be created. age, gender, education, employment, annual income, home ownership, and residency). The Analytical Methods.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Indeed, some analysts have gone a step further, declaring that subscription boxes are in the midst of a venture capital-fueled bubble not unlike the flash-sale business craze that ended five years ago. the absolute size of the customer base and the number of customers acquired each quarter).

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