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Does Your Strategic Planning Process Incorporate Customer Value?

Luminas Strategy

As managers we, of course, believe that our organizations have a unique value proposition and that our offerings somehow provide us with a competitive advantage even if we are unable to articulate how this occurs. Many organizations unknowingly offering de facto customer or stakeholder value as if they are operating on autopilot.

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Business Model Innovation (BMI): Business Model Journey

Flevy

As defined by Clayton Christensen, author of the Innovator’s Dilemma, a Business Model consists of 4 elements: Customer Value Proposition – The Customer Value Proposition is the “job to be done.” The focus is on the key elements that create value for the customer and the company.

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How We Can Align our Corporate Strategy and Supply Chain Strategy

Flevy

Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Procurement. Due to the difficulty in managing these demands and balancing trade-offs, we cannot address issues like cost, customization, speed, and price in an effective, cross-functional manner. Customizers. Value Players. These are: Innovators. Premium Players.

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THE 10-K FILING: THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT THAT SAMS NEVER READ

Strategic Account Management Association

For the CXO, they care about three categories of value: value to their customers, value to their firm and value to themselves. “So, So, Jacques, how do You define value?”. Both the CXO and salesperson will have their own definitions of value. Beware: This is not a one-size-fits-all exercise.

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Equipped for the Inevitable: The Owens Corning Story

Luminas Strategy

Based in Toledo, Ohio, Owens Corning — a leading manufacturer since 1938 — is known for its entrepreneurial spirit, focus and thirst for being better. Building materials manufacturers would die for that kind of brand recognition. In 2009, when the bottom fell out of the housing market, building materials manufacturers were hit hard.

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Why is value-based selling so important?

Mercuri International

Value-based selling has been around for more than 30 years and is still as relevant as ever. When Mercuri Research recently surveyed the most important challenges for business leaders, customer value orientation came out on top, just as it did in our last survey 5 years ago.

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Smart Selling Visions: Up-Close with Top Revenue Leader Greg Sherrill, CEO of @ChannelRocket

SBI

Channel Rocket is a SaaS sales enablement platform that helps manufacturers grow sales through their direct and indirect sales channels. We help deliver instant, customized content to the salesperson on any device – shortening sales cycles and increasing revenue. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations?