What is strategy without execution? Merely theory. A successful business requires both a well developed strategy and the ability to execute on that strategy. Many companies develop robust strategies, but fail at operationalizing their strategies into implementable steps. We have just released a free primer on Strategy Development and Strategy Execution. It is a 54-slide deck that […]
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The Crisis in Corporate Strategy (Part 2): How to Make a Difference
Note from the Editor: Charles Fiaccabrino is a seasoned executive with 50+ years of sales management experience. Charles began his career at Hoffmann La Roche on April 1st, 1969 as the first diagnostics sales representative in the newly formed Diagnostics Division and helped grow the organization into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. During his career at […]
How to Turn Your First Time Customers into Repeat Customers?
It always takes more to retain customers than to create new in a highly competitive marketplace. With the growing customer awareness and their increasing demands, it is highly important for the business owners to provide high levels of customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is a simply a measure of a particular product or service’s ability to […]
The Crisis in Corporate Strategy (Part 1)
Note from the Editor: Charles Fiaccabrino is a seasoned executive with 50+ years of sales management experience. Charles began his career at Hoffmann La Roche on April 1st, 1969 as the first diagnostics sales representative in the newly formed Diagnostics Division and helped grow the organization into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. During his career at […]
3 Frameworks to Help Your SMB Grow into an Enterprise
Every small business dreams of growing into that $100MM midsize company–and every midsize company dreams of even grander sales. As a company grows, it traverses through distinct stages of growth. In fact, there are specific characteristics that define companies at a each growth stage. Knowing, understanding, and anticipating these characteristics will best prepare any business […]
Pricing Strategy: To Skim or to Penetrate?
Pricing is arguably the most critical component of your marketing mix. It directly drives how your product is positioned and what target segment you go after. Below, we have 5 documents that help you determine and craft a robust pricing strategy for your product or service. They range in topics from covering the basic question […]
Is Your Turnover Abysmal?
In most sales organizations, there are 2 crippling truths—1) 80-90% of sales are generated by only 20% of the sales team and 2) turnover is abysmal. This brings us to an important question. Why is that only 20% of the sales team generate such a disproportionate amount of the sales? What if you were to […]
The Complete Product Launch Strategy Toolkit
Launching a new product? In this email, we outline a number of strategic business frameworks that, together, provide a holistic approach to Product Launch Strategy. The linked documents have been developed by a couple of Flevy’s Top Authors, LearnPPT and PPT Lab. 1. Selecting the Right Market Segment Product Life Cycle https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Product-Lifecycle-227 The […]
Supervisors Do Things Right, Leaders Do the Right Things
Note from the Editor: Charles Fiaccabrino is a seasoned executive with 50+ years of sales management experience. Charles began his career at Hoffmann La Roche on April 1st, 1969 as the first diagnostics sales representative in the newly formed Diagnostics Division and helped grow the organization into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. During his career at […]
The Ultimate Reference Guide for Consultants
The majority of documents available on Flevy are produced by seasoned consultants and consulting firms. Many of these documents were produced FOR consultants, as well. Below, we have listed a number of must-have references for anyone working in management consulting–and, in particular, those who run their own boutique firms. They are roughly grouped into common […]
Make Strategy Review = Strategy Execution
Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from Executive Smarts, a collection of 25 concise chapters on management and leadership. For a limited time the e-version is free. The book’s co-authors, William Casey and Wendi Peck, teach and consult on the topics of organizational behavior management, organizational structure design, strategic communication, and strategic planning & execution. This material is […]
