Speed-to-customer for new B2B product announcements or new capabilities for existing products is a thorny problem in the best of times. In a world transformed, where working from home is the new norm and virtual selling is the standard, it is exacerbated.
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How to Enable Speed to Customer and Accelerate Revenue?
By Mark Gibson on Sep 16, 2020 1:33:43 PM
Topics: sales enablement #playbook factory sales playbooks product launch
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How to Overcome Post-merger Go-to-Market- Challenges
By Mark Gibson on Aug 4, 2020 6:03:15 PM
Mergers and acquisitions hold promise for owners and investors of combinatorial synergies to reduce costs, increase profit, extend market and product coverage, as well as accelerate innovation.
2020 has been a banner year for mergers and acquisitions, with 5500 deals so far. This record volume may be partially due to the Covid-19 outbreak forcing the liquidation or disposal of underperforming non-core or struggling investments. However, mergers come with a great deal of risk as reflected in failure rates that are reported to be between 40% and 70%.
Despite best-laid plans and executive oversight, human factors present the greatest risk and sales-force integration is the toughest merger issue to overcome.