CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As new AI use cases continue to emerge, it is likely that we will see enterprises adopt AI — not merely in leveraging generative AI chat tools, but as a core driver of business that can create competitive differentiation. Or a sales team member inputs the prompt, “Can you create sales trends based on the following Q2 pipeline data?”

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Security Security Intellectual Property Loss 780

Aqute Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

The definition of a winning edge in the business world nowadays requires more than just savvy marketing campaigns and brilliant services. It’s about understanding your competition and using that knowledge to drive your business forward. What is Competitive Intelligence? But how do we measure how effective it is?

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Too many enterprise businesses have been held back by their commerce technology. Increasing tech debt, disparate sales channels, costly innovation to improve customer experiences, and worst of all: a high total cost of ownership (TCO). To avoid unnecessary losses, ensure your platform is optimized for conversions.

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Primary Intelligence

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Win loss analysis has helped many marketers better understand their buyers. As a marketing leader, there are many ways you can use your win loss insights including: Strategic Direction in Marketing Efforts. Your buyers want a solution that solves their business needs. Creating Sales Enablement Assets.

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Primary Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales reps must make the most of this shortened window of time by gaining a thorough understanding of what decision drivers cause won and lost deals and what specific things they can do as individuals to increase win rates. Additionally, over 50% of the time, sales reps will give a different reason for a win or loss than their buyer.

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Primary Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Most often when people think of win loss analysis, they think of the sales process. But win loss analysis has tremendous benefits on the customer success side of a buyer’s journey. Customer experience can benefit from win loss insights in the following ways: Aligning Sales Promises and Delivery.

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Primary Intelligence

JUNE 10, 2021

As sales leaders, we face tough challenges. With inaccurate forecasts, personnel turnover, and an ever-changing competitive landscape, our revenue goals can seem like they are slipping further and further away. Most often, buyers described missteps in the sales process as the reason for lost business – even ahead of price!

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Primary Intelligence

JULY 7, 2021

Companies who cannot find their competitive edge will lose deals. Therefore, it’s important that sales and marketing have a deep understanding of who their competitors are, what their competitors are doing, and how they can best position themselves against competitors in an ever-changing market. Don’t Skew Your Data. Talk to our team.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. Achieving this clear end-state vision requires deep and successful business and technology alignment,” he says.

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ArchIntel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The two segments that generated the majority of the revenue were laptop sales, with around $22 billion in revenue, and tablets, with around $11 billion in revenue, Statista reported. Competition in the industry has democratized access to the most sophisticated consumer electronics. In 2020, the computer hardware market in the U.S.

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Primary Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Most often, buyers described missteps in the sales experience as the reason for lost business – even above price or product features. However, according to a study by Gartner1, sellers will often blame their losses on pricing and feature issues, or claim it as an accident and credit their wins to their own heroics.

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Alpha Sense BI

JANUARY 11, 2024

Semaglutide injections, used to treat type 2 diabetes by promoting radical weight loss, are raking in historic profits. These developments indicate a promising financial trajectory for weight loss drugs in the upcoming quarters, leading to a spike in document activity within the AlphaSense platform.

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Loss Pharmaceutical Competitive Landscape Research 52

ArchIntel

JANUARY 4, 2021

Let’s discuss the best ways to use competitive intelligence in today’s market. As a business owner, there’s no doubt that you would focus on collecting data and researching the best marketing strategies solely for your business. What is competitive intelligence? How a business can identify their main competitors.

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Primary Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Most often, buyers described missteps in the sales experience as the reason for lost business – even above price or product features. This disconnect between why sellers think they lose and why they really lose according to their buyers is why buyer feedback is so crucial to helping sales teams increase win rates. The Challenge.

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Evalueserve

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Competitive Intelligence (CI) gives sales teams critical information surrounding competitors, markets, and customers, which are all key factors when making strategic decisions. If done right, CI tools will empower sales and business development teams to: Get a better understanding of their targeted customers.

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ArchIntel

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Adobe announced on Monday that it is currently recruiting a senior manager of competitive intelligence for placement in its offices in Lehi, Utah. The CI senior manager must be capable of analyzing data, distilling it and communicating insightful and actionable business intelligence for strategic decision-making. ArchIntel™ -.

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Cooperative Intelligence Blog

JUNE 29, 2016

In May, I was honored to give a Win/Loss analysis webinar, as part of the competitive intelligence #IntelCollab series facilitated by Craig Fleisher, Chief Learning Officer at Aurora WDC. You can view the slides and listen to the webinar entitled: Win/Loss Analysis Captures and Keeps New Business.

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Aqute Intelligence

APRIL 13, 2023

We use hundreds of public sources across the many competitive research projects that we conduct, but most of the useful information in any one project comes from only a handful of sources, and it’s usually the same sources. This is mostly the case if they target consumers or small businesses. Examples: SEC search , Annual Reports 3.

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Competitive Intelligence Competitive Intelligence Intelligence 130

ArchIntel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Khoros , a provider of digital-first customer engagement software, is looking for a manager of competitive intelligence who will join its market intelligence team. The post Khoros Hiring Oregon-Based Competitive Intelligence Manager appeared first on ArchIntel™. Khoros was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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Competitive Intelligence Competitive Intelligence Intelligence 104

mention

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Figures from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics show that 70% of businesses fail before reaching their fifth year. . The factors that lead each business to close down depend on the business, owners, market, and external economic factors. That’s where a business plan comes in. Why you need a business plan.

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Startups SWOT Business Analysis 271

Zoominfo

AUGUST 18, 2021

In sales, as with any other field or practice, sometimes you need to think outside the box to come out on top. Knowing the rules for a sales call is vital; so is knowing when to break those rules. Our research has shown how much sales calls have changed in the last year. Longer sales cycles. Talk About the Competition.

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Sales Benchmarking Market Segmentation Education 130

Cooperative Intelligence Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Recently I was interviewed about Win Loss analysis. Question: Why did you write this book, Win/Loss Analysis ? Ellen: There wasn’t a book written on Win/Loss analysis and every time I complete a Win/Loss project, and my client makes the changes that I recommend, they make more money. I thought you might be interested.

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mention

JANUARY 4, 2023

Are you thinking of starting a business? In this blog post, we’ll go over 15 things every potential business owner should think about before getting started. We’ll cover the serious and technical aspects of starting a business. Analyze Your Competition. Figure Out Your Business Name and Domain URL.

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Cooperative Intelligence Blog

APRIL 6, 2017

I just had another client tell me he was getting pushback from his salesforce to do Win/Loss analysis. They felt that win/loss analysis would be a critique of them, and only them. The objective of Win/Loss analysis is to win and retain more business, not to critique sales people. What business to walk away from.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Then they opened up the API to let their business users build their own applications,” he says. With a little experimentation, it’s cheap and easy to find applications that can provide business benefits, creating a false perception of value. Their idea of effort was miniscule, and the business value was great.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 16, 2017

A win/loss analysis reveals why and how a sales opportunity turned into a new customer (or not). Making the most out of this feedback, by creating a report, is crucial to improving future sales processes. What Is A Win/Loss Analysis? What was your perception of the sales team? How was their sales pitch ?

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Cooperative Intelligence Blog

JULY 28, 2016

Earlier this year, I was honored to give a Win Loss analysis webinar, as part of the competitive intelligence #IntelCollab series facilitated by Craig Fleisher, Chief Learning Officer at Aurora WDC. You can view the slides and listen to the webinar entitled: Win/Loss Analysis Captures and Keeps New Business.

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Loss Win Analysis Business 100

Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2018

Are your sales forecasts tied to reality? Is sales forecast accuracy more of a pipedream within your sales organization? Does the speed of your sales pipeline resemble molasses? In fact, less than half of all forecasted sales opportunities actually result in a sales win. Ditch the weighted sales pipeline.

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Fuld

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This was leading to negative articles in the national and business press, the erosion of customer confidence and trust, and, in some cases, the loss of large—scale contracts. We then provided a Counterpoint for our client for each of these Points, highlighting how they compared to the competitor, for tactical use by their sales team.

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Battlecard Competitive Intelligence Win Competitive 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 18, 2021

In sales, as with any other field or practice, sometimes you need to think outside the box to come out on top. Knowing the rules for a sales call is vital; so is knowing when to break those rules. Our research has shown how much sales calls have changed in the last year. Longer sales cycles.

Sales 100

Sales Benchmarking Market Segmentation Education 100

mention

MAY 27, 2024

From trademarks and copyrights to online presence management and counterfeit prevention, businesses must proactively defend their identity. Source The Significance of Brand Protection Brand protection is crucial for businesses as it safeguards integrity, reputation, and brand value.

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Fuld

MAY 3, 2021

Sales acceleration is a form of competitive intelligence (CI) in the sales enablement ecosystem. An effective accelerated sales strategy arms your business with timely data and insights that ramp up the velocity and relevance of sales conversations. Active Selling. What are their requirements?

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Cooperative Intelligence Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Four of the top 7 competitive intelligence blogs were written in 2009. 2 were competitive intelligence analytic tools, which the other 2 were relationship skills: emotional intelligence; and marketing, R&D and product development relationships. This is a powerful competitive weapon since this is not the case at many companies.

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Competitive Intelligence Competitive Intelligence Intelligence 100

ArchIntel

APRIL 14, 2021

The industry has traditionally been highly competitive. Business logistics costs in the U.S. Without a doubt, each company in the crucial sector will press their competitive intelligence executives for the insights needed to enhance competitiveness amid uncertain times. Mack Robinson School of Business. reached $1.6

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Cooperative Intelligence Blog

AUGUST 26, 2016

I have worked in competitive intelligence for over 25 years and here are some timeless key findings. What Is Competitive intelligence Anyway? Competitive Intelligence is NOT competitor spying. Company Insularity Is Not a Competitive Advantage. Many Companies Can’t Afford a Competitive Intelligence Process.

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Competitive Intelligence Competitive Intelligence Intelligence 100

Zoominfo

MAY 11, 2020

There’s a lot to think about when developing an annual sales plan to support your organization’s strategy and objectives: New customer acquisition, customer retention, increasing share of wallet, resource budgeting … just to name a few. But don’t forget about your sales territory plan. What is a Sales Territory Plan?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2022

Public-facing roles, in particular, saw heavy losses. Others have introduced signing bonuses, tuition support, and retirement contributions to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive recruitment landscape. This has reconfigured a strongly candidate-driven recruitment landscape. and 4.5 %, respectively.

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