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How We Can Align our Corporate Strategy and Supply Chain Strategy

Flevy

Most organizations struggle to find a true strategic fit between their Corporate Strategies and their Supply Chain Strategies. For most organizations, they operate within a highly complex and globally interconnected Supply Chain. Each archetype is characterized by its Customer Value Proposition.

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Does Your Strategic Planning Process Incorporate Customer Value?

Luminas Strategy

At Luminas Strategy, we believe that in order for strategic planning effective it is critical to take an outside-in approach, to gather input from customers on how they perceive you create differential value vs. your competitors. How is the value you bring different from customers’ next best alternatives?

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The Future of SAM – Revisited

Strategic Account Management Association

It’s important to engage with customers and organizations in new ways. We have to understand how SAM relates to the other ways that we engage with customers like marketing, sales, supply chain management.”. Build multifunctional teams includingsupply chain, quality and operations that focus on servicing customers.

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Six Building Blocks for Revitalized B2B Marketing and Sales

Luminas Strategy

While grabbing the “low hanging fruit,” you can progress slower moving, multiyear technology investments, such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or content management systems, which often take a year and a half to three years to deliver returns. Link marketing and sales to the supply chain.

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“We’re all account managers now”

Mercuri International

Customer value orientation. Customer value orientation, identified as the number one trend in sales in a recent Mercuri Research survey, is at the core of this transition. We need to shift our perspective, with salespeople putting themselves in their customer’s shoes. The solution?

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Five Skills to Develop a Customer Driven Sales Team

Sales Readiness Group

the great resignation”, dealing with supply chain disruptions, and managing a remote workforce. In thinking about these very real challenges, I’m reminded of a CEO who always promoted the message “overwhelming, absolute commitment to customer satisfaction.”

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Zendesk for Manufacturing: Customer service that powers lifetime customer value

Zendesk

The manufacturing industry has seen increasing challenges over the last few years, including facing increasing global competition, disruptions in international supply chains, changing customer preferences, remote work and workforce reskilling, as well as fundamental shifts in product and service offerings.