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OCTOBER 1, 2012

HERE’S YOUR LESSON: You can invest in some marketing program to reach new people – or you can invest in giving your existing customers the best service possible, and let THEM find new people for you. PREDICTION: I’ll bet the investment in existing customer experience is one-tenth the cost of any marketing program.

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AUGUST 8, 2014

Change Management stage. Change management issues incorporated with solution choice. I started up a tech company in London 1983-89 and developed Buying Facilitation  to teach my sales folks to navigate buyers through their decision path, change management, and buy-in BEFORE they began selling.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

As sellers we are taught to find prospects with a need that matches our solution and then find creative, professional ways to pitch, present, entice, push, market, or somehow introduce our solution to enable them to understand how our solutions will fix their problem. Change Management stage. Organization stage.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

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CircleCI

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Due to marketing messaging and different interpretations of DevOps among organizations, there is no universal definition of what DevOps is and is not. Coined by Belgian engineer Patrick Debois around 2007, DevOps came in response to growing dysfunction in software development and delivery teams. What is DevOps?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2014

StrategyDriven provides executives and managers with the planning and execution advice, tools, and practices needed to create greater organizational alignment and accountability for the achievement of superior results. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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JULY 10, 2014

Buying decisions happen well before buyers consider your solution regardless of their need or the efficacy of your solution, marketing, or content. One of the first things they must do is assemble the complete Buying Decision Team to garner the consensus necessary for change. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2014

A Buying Decision is a Change Management Problem. To understand how buyers buy, we must understand systems and change. Buying anything, from a shirt to a company, a training program or a piece of software, is a change management activity. Buying Includes a 13 Step Buy-in Change Process. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2015

Buyer Personas do a great job targeting marketing and sales campaigns to reach the most probable buying audience. Here’s a question: Do you want to sell/market? The belief is that if you can sell/market appropriately – the right campaign to the right buyer with the right solution at the right time – buyers will buy.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2016

marketing avenues were limited, as was advertising (Sears Catalogue, Life Magazine, The Farmer’s Almanac, the local paper or general store). Buyers cannot buy unless they have managed their internal change management journey that. Obviously there was no technology, or global competition. Differentiation?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 15, 2014

Contact Sharon Drew at sharondrew@sharondrewmorgen.com and add her Buying Facilitation ® model to your sales or marketing solutions. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Relate Articles: How Sales, Marketing and Social Can Facilitate the Decision Path. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

80% of your prospects will buy a solution similar to yours within 2 years of your connection, but not from you; your relationship-building, price breaks, marketing campaigns, etc. Indeed: the time it takes buyers to manage changes they’ll face from bringing in your solution is the length of the sales cycle.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2014

What does the housing market look like for the sale of your house? In sales, coaching, change implementations, or negotiating, the focus has been on ‘the house’. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 37 – Making Change Work: Why is Buy-in Necessary and How to Achieve It.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Ensure each team includes people who have business, market, and product expertise. Give each team full responsibility over particular products or market segments. Organizational leaders often underestimate the importance of expert change management.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. Don’t skimp.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Remember that a buying decision is a change management problem; the sales model does not offer the skills to facilitate the sort of non-solution-based systemic change buyers go through (behind-the-scenes politics, relationships, timing, etc.) Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2015

When we create data-driven vehicles for marketing and sales, we have no idea if the mode, the message, the presentation, or the verbiage might go against a buyer’s internal criteria – regardless of whether or not they need our solution. We also have no idea where along the change management/decision path they are in their buy cycle.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Without adding some Buying Facilitation® components sellers have a tough time becoming part of the change management process that buyers must manage to not only implement the solution, but actually define their criteria for solution selection. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Buying Criteria.

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OCTOBER 30, 2010

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department).

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2015

As a result, you have learned ways to manage the fallout you’ve received from attempting to offer a solution at the wrong time. Every buying decision is a change management problem. You’re wasting your time trying to place a solution before the buyer has lined up the change management issues they must contend with.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Rapidly changing market conditions drive businesses leaders to continually reinvent how their organizations do business, their products and their services. Regardless of the changes made, differences between the business of today and the business of tomorrow commonly necessitate a change in personnel knowledge, skills, and experiences.

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2011

Episode 39 – Making Change Work: A Radical Approach to Change Management, Real Leadership explores what true leadership is and how it is effectively applied throughout the change management process. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Focusing on understanding and biasing material toward Marketing Mary’s ‘needs’ is specious: we’re outsiders and can never understand the unique composition of anyone else’s culture that has created, and maintains, the ‘need’ and would have to change to bring in something new. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2017

Thankfully, there are a few useful tools that can be easily implemented, even in small companies, and that are designed to provide you with the necessary knowledge to take informed decisions: CRM tools, task management tools, and web traffic tools are already available on the market. The digital trends change and evolve all the time.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I’m a sales visionary, and for decades have been teaching a buy-in model I invented and teach to sales folks and coaches to give them the tools to help buyers make the change management decisions necessary to be ready to buy. SDM: Yes, I have a few moments, but I’m not in the market for coaching products. This is a cold call.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As soon as 2020, innovation could be measured, just like other essential elements of the industry such as marketing and IT. You just finished reading How Digital Process Innovation Can Influence Organisational Change In The Finance Sector ! Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Perhaps the marketing team is pushing for one set of goals while the sales team wants to go another way. You just finished reading Dealing with Change as Your Company Grows ! Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2010

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DECEMBER 18, 2010

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JANUARY 4, 2011

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2016

Sharon Drew Morgen is a visionary, original thinker, and thought leader in change management and decision facilitation. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Your solution is perfect for them; they just need help getting their ducks in a row so they can give you the order. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 1, 2011

Best Wishes Always, Karen Juliano Editor-in-Chief and Director, Communications and Marketing StrategyDriven Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. We look forward to continuing the journey to becoming a truly StrategyDriven organization with you.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2016

In 1979 I became Rookie (stockbroker) of the Year at Merrill Lynch with 210 accounts (the market was 777). A generic change management model for coaches, sellers, managers, etc.) 13 steps that traverse the elements of change management: starting with an idea (Step 1) through to a purchase (Step 13).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2011

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