Monthly Archives: July 2011
Freeing up the sales force for selling – McKinsey Quarterly – Marketing – Sales & Distribution

Let say it is coincidence. Working on a paper about strategic selling and structuring of activities and finding this post. Some guys do have all the luck. Hope u can use it ot
Found at Freeing up the sales force for selling – McKinsey Quarterly – Marketing – Sales & Distribution.
Most sales reps spend less than half of their time actually selling. Here’s how companies can reshape sales operations to allow them to focus on their real job
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Freeing up the sales force for selling – McKinsey Quarterly – Marketing – Sales & Distribution.
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Tim Brown’s “We’re Spent” » Design Thinking IDEO

Found at “We’re Spent” » Design Thinking.
Some of you may remember me writing about ideas around the participation economy back in Spring 2009. One of those articles was entitled “The Post Consumption Economy” . There hasn’t been a whole lot of debate in the mainstream media about whether we have been solving the wrong problem by trying to revive the consumer economy but David Leonhardt argues in his New York Times article ” We’re Spent” that we may have no choice but to look for a different answer
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