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Back to the Future: F2F selling is returning, but virtual selling is here to stay

Strategic Account Management Association

Moreover, many salespeople we interviewed report that both they and their customer counterparts are often more focused, and more efficient, in virtual interactions than in face-to-face meetings. At the same time the advantages of virtual selling are rising to the fore, so too are its challenges and limitations, as seen in Figure 2.

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9 Ways to Get Ideas Brewing with Instant Coffee

Planview

No matter what type of work you do, you likely do a fair amount of brainstorming, planning, and “noodling” in your daily work. Instant Coffee is a new way to brainstorm and collaborate with your team and others. A product team uses Instant Coffee to brainstorm ideas for the next quarter. Brainstorming.

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Design Thinking Driven Problem Solving and Innovation

Flevy

It is a way of thinking that focuses on understanding the needs of users and creating solutions that meet those needs. The goal of design thinking is to create a solution that meets the needs of the user and is feasible and practical. Collaboration: Design thinking is a collaborative process that involves multiple stakeholders.

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Book review: The Strategy Book by Max McKeown

Red Star Kim

I deliver and facilitate strategy workshops and it’s always good to be able to recommend strategy books to delegates. He shares the story of how Twitter came into existence from a big picture brainstorming day with people from a podcasting company considering tough competition from Apple and having an idea for an SMS service.

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[Q&A] How Do You Get CEO Buy-in for a Strategic Planning Process?

OnStrategyHQ

When developing and implementing a strategic plan, we always emphasize the importance of stakeholder buy-in; buy-in from everyone from individual contributors to executives. Our role as strategy leaders is to facilitate alignment by having purposeful conversations that get to the heart of issues fast. first appeared on OnStrategy.

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What a User-Friendly Tool for Strategy Execution Looks Like (And Why Your Organization Needs One)

AchieveIt

More effective team meetings A user-friendly tool means better data output, and this ultimately means effective team meetings. This leaves little to no room for brainstorming and problem-solving. You can avoid this by sharing progress updates with all stakeholders before a team meeting.

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Book review: The Management Shift – How to harness the power of people and transform your organization for sustainable success by Vlatka Hlupic

Red Star Kim

This 2014 book by Professor Vlatka Hluplic didn’t appear on my radar but I had the privilege of meeting the author through my work with the Managing Partners Forum. The new leadership approach is about interacting through informal networks, experimentation, learning, facilitating, coaching and enabling. “In