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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. Second, I observed that often in professional services marketing and business development we have minimal involvement in research, innovation, product development and pricing.

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Book review: The Strategy Book by Max McKeown

Red Star Kim

Being easy to read, short and jargon-free The Strategy Book (FT Publishing, 2012) is a considerable achievement bearing in mind the subject matter. He mentions innovation expert Clayton Christensen who suggests that success from what you are doing stops you seeing what you should do next. He’s clearly an advocate for scenario planning.

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Why Start a (True) Key Account Management Initiative?

KAM With Passion

For all organisations, large or small, who take it seriously, practicing KAM is about developing deep and strong relationships with truly strategic customers in order to accelerate innovation and growth. As stated earlier, boosting innovation has become a key criterion for organisations with a mature KAM practice.

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Proactive marketing and business development executives – CRM, internal engagement and career insights

Red Star Kim

Four themes in the art of selling – Integrating marketing and sales (kimtasso.com) A creative exercise on engagement generated some interesting metaphors – for example, a brick wall suggesting a lack of communication, a carrot considering motivation and a Leonardo di Caprio shrug suggesting indifference.

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The 5 Stages of Entrepreneurship

Hubspot Sales

However, turning your idea into a profitable business is no simple task. The goal here is to identify and validate a profitable business idea. Chanty is a communication and team collaboration app that went head-to-head with companies like Slack. As a result, many innovative ideas never become a reality.

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Book review: Neuroscience for learning and development by Stella Collins

Red Star Kim

And mentions that the CIPD bought out three research reports between 2012 and 2014 describing the impact that neuroscience will have on learning. The author has included some research on the value of skills (e.g. people skills are worth £88 billion to UK industry alone).

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How Social Sellers Write Effective LinkedIn Profiles

SBI Growth

They consider the expected profits from the innovation. But more importantly, they consider the value of the innovator. Source – CEB, The New High Performer Playbook, Arlington VA, 2012). Good Reps are unafraid to challenge the status quo in favor of innovative thinking. Bet on the Jockey.