High Performance Sales Organizations: Creating Competitive Advantage in the Global Marketplace

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McGraw Hill Professional, 16‏/11‏/1999 - 224 من الصفحات
"A must-read for the business leader of today and tomorrow."--John G. O'Neill, Vice President, 3M Canada. High Performance Sales Organizations defined the true nature of market-focused sales and service operations, and helped push sales organizations into the 21st century. This essential guide includes three new chapters that highlight the latest computer and communications technologies and updates the comprehensive research, charts, and checklists that have made it so indispensable.

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In Pursuit of Loyal Customer Partners
3
A New Type of Customer
12
BUILDING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
23
Focusing the Organization Outward
25
The Customer Relationship Process Creating Loyal Partners
35
Consultative Selling
53
Salesperson as Strategic Orchestrator
66
Salesperson as Business Consultant
80
Salesperson as LongTerm Ally
93
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS
103
TechnologyEnabled Selling Wiring the Enterprise for HighPerformance Selling
105
Selecting High Performers
125
Strategic Sales Training
145
Strategic Sales Coaching
162
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الصفحة 122 - An information extraction activity whose goal is to discover hidden facts contained in databases. Using a combination of machine learning, statistical analysis, modeling techniques, and database technology, data mining finds patterns and subtle relationships in data and infers rules that allow the prediction of future results.
الصفحة 147 - ... rather than first in size. Valuing quality above quantity, it has preferred to secure its business under certain salutary restrictions and limitations rather than to write a much larger business at the possible sacrifice of those valuable points which have made The Northwestern pre-eminently the policyowner's company.
الصفحة 26 - We aspire to deliver quality and excellence in all that we do We require premium return on assets...
الصفحة 26 - Customers To provide products and services of the highest quality and the greatest possible value to our customers, thereby gaining and holding their respect and loyalty.
الصفحة 57 - ... solution that meets each customer's needs. For most companies in most industries, the competitive necessity to understand and respond to the customer's more complex and strategic needs spells the end of the one-size-fits-all solution. In the past, the product was the solution; now, more often than not, the salesperson must create the solution from a mix of products and services. Usually, the solution represents either one of two options: 1. A customized version or application of a product and/or...
الصفحة 25 - We translate advanced technologies into value for our costumers as the world's largest information services company. Our professionals worldwide provide expertise within specific industries, consulting services, systems integration, and solution development and technical suport. PERKS Orientation; informational interviews with executives; employee discounts on IBM products; intramural softball and basketball leagues.
الصفحة 39 - Michael Porter, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (New York: The Free Press, 1990).
الصفحة 57 - The better a salesperson is at creatively marshaling all available resources to address a customer's strategic need, the stronger the customer relationship becomes. This ability to solve problems creatively is one of the characteristics of top salespeople at the leading sales organizations we studied. As a vice president at Scott Paper (United States) described them: "There's a creative energy around getting the answer.
الصفحة 53 - Three is a powerful tool for identifying and improving the activities that establish and strengthen profitable, long-term relationships between your organization and your customers. The knowledge, skills, and attitudes your salespeople use will determine the strength of the relationship between your two organizations. Sales executives in the leading sales organizations say that the critical skill salespeople need to develop long-term customer relationships is consultative selling.

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Edward R. Del Gaizo is director of market research, Darlene Coker is manager of the Sales Performance product portfolio, Howard I. Kamens manages the Sales Performance capabilities portfolio, Kathleen A. Murray is vice president for Europe and the Middle East, all at The Achieved Global, a world wide consulting and training orgnaization based in Stamford, Connecticut.

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