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Navigating Technical Debt in the Automotive Industry

Planview

Amidst the relentless waves of innovation and competition, OEMs, suppliers, and manufacturers in the automotive industry navigate a sea of challenges and opportunities. The impact of technical debt on quality, speed, and performance often remains obscured, making it crucial to bridge this gap in understanding.

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Using End-to-End Visibility to Scale and Streamline Automotive Production

Planview

Lastly, established tier-one suppliers are grappling with dual challenges: a scarcity of comprehensive software expertise and a dearth of suitable hardware platforms for deployment. This statistic serves as a call to action for automotive manufacturers and suppliers to prioritize the enhancement of their software development capabilities.

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Selling to the C-Suite: Strategies for Reaching Executive Decision Makers

Brooks Group

As buying processes grow more complex, it’s becoming increasingly important for sales professionals to gain access to senior executives and C-level decision makers. Today’s major purchasing decisions often involve cross-functional buying committees that include executives from the C-suite. Your prospect lacks budget authority.

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13 Best Consultative Sales Questions

Brooks Group

When you understand your customers better, you can offer solutions that meet their needs, making it more likely to close a sale. Strategic questioning should aim to uncover the prospect’s pain points, goals, decision-making process, and any potential objections or concerns they may have.

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Are You Working on the Right Things? The Power of Collaborative Channels

Planview

One of the most important decisions people in organizations make on a daily basis at all levels is choosing how to spend resources. Think of new product enhancements or concepts that come from customers, strategic portfolio initiatives, agile process improvements from employees, or innovations from suppliers and partners.

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Every Minute Counts

Revenue Storm

In a report published in Q1 this year from Gartner, in a complex B2B purchasing decision, the stakeholders spend only 17% of their time with suppliers. If you are in a competitive situation with, say 5 potential suppliers, this means that your buyers are only engaging with you about 3.4% of the time. Create insights!

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Technical Skills Of A Sales Manager

Brooks Group

Further, it ensures client satisfaction by effectively resolving concerns, reviewing and monitoring projects’ performance, and making improvement recommendations. Also, they facilitate new business opportunities for a company by helping develop new supplier partnerships.