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The Salesforce Way

The company with a radically different product strategy, and a business model that included all stakeholders, continues to do well and to teach those of us willing to learn how business can be done better in the twenty-first century.

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Oracle Is Signaling

The idea of layoffs might be disconcerting for some. Others might wonder about the acuity of decision making in Redwood Shores or Austin or wherever Oracle does its thinking these days. But there’s a certain logic to it.

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Oracle’s ‘Box of Chocolates’

Oracle's acquisition of health IT company Cerner could turn out to be pure genius. But right now, I see a Gumpian box of chocolates, and what I notice acutely are the missing jobs and resources in CX.

RESEARCH

A Study of Selling

Some businesses are returning to the office and others continue working from anywhere or adopting hybrid strategies. All can benefit from the advantages of intelligent systems, and all of this is pointing to a paradigm shift once again led by CRM.

The CRM Quiz

Software systems come and go. When is it time to re-evaluate your commitments in CRM and how do you know for sure? This simple quiz is based on my own market research for clients which I share with you to stimulate your thinking.

INSIGHTS

Service Is More Than a Selling Opportunity

Sales and service are tightly related for the simple reason that they center on the newness of a category or product type and thus neophyte customers. When a product or its category are new it takes great effort to explain how something works and demonstrate the benefits.

INSIGHTS

Have We Forgotten How To Sell?

Some of the technology that drives modern selling is really helpful, but too much seems aimed at scratching the itch of lead generation with no thought to what one does to process a lead.

VENDOR WATCH

Zoho Consolidates Marketing Functions

Zoho Marketing Plus is an attempt to bring things back into focus so that SMBs can do the same things in marketing that larger companies do with more labor. You might call this the second democratization of information.

ANALYSIS

Digital Skills Front and Center

Research the Rand Corporation did for Salesforce paints a startling picture of how our industry -- actually our world -- is significantly underprepared for its digital future.

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Spreadsheet Mishigas

Recently McKinsey & Company did a deep dive on supply-chain planning -- which you might think is a long way from CRM -- but you might be surprised. The shocking finding to me, and the connection with CRM, is the statistic that 73 percent of respondents said that spreadsheets are their primary supply...

INSIGHTS

The Sustainable Customer

The customer version of sustainability requires that we capture scads of data about customers -- and today that means in an ethical and non-snooping way so that we'll have something to feed the monster we call AI.

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Moving Up From SFA

It's time -- past time, really -- to reevaluate sales force automation and maybe consider a new path. That's not as dire as it sounds though. We did a study recently in which we asked over 500 experienced sellers about everything from lead quality to support in the form of resources and even their m...

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More Platform Tools

Back in the day, never mind which one, software development was both easier and harder than it is now. The code you wrote was compiled and it ran. If you were a good programmer, you might have left comments in the code so that later developers could understand how the system was intended to work if ...

INSIGHTS

The Great Upgrade

Today, we all need to be on platform-based CRM, and we need to become ninjas at platform-based application development and deployment. This especially goes for the newest tools on the platforms which include an array of analytics, machine learning, and voice assistants.

INSIGHTS

The Great Re…tirement

CRM has become big enough to generate a significant shadow. When an idea like putting customers in the center of our universe takes hold, we see ripple effects everywhere in the culture. Nobody wants to be in favor of something else. But other times, CRM gets blowback from new trends. Such is the ca...

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Dreamforce NYC Was Un-CRM-Like and That’s Okay

Salesforce held its Dreamforce NYC on schedule in early December, which you might have missed because of other news like Omicron and the looming chaos of the holidays. What was so interesting was how un-CRM-like it was.

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This Year in CRM

It's okay to give ourselves kudos for CRM's resiliency over the course of the pandemic. We did a heck of a job keeping most of the balls in the air. Oracle, Salesforce, and many other CRM vendors continued innovating for the pandemic, but they also began innovating systems for what happens afterward...

INSIGHTS

The Great Sales Methodology Debate, Solved

Sales managers and their managers have had to make peace with the reality that they might not be able to get reps to use technology. But methodology alone or with technology is a more-or-less lost cause. Fortunately, the technology has improved consistently over the last two decades. Even more fortu...

OPINION

The Dilithium Crystals Might Be Melting

For those born after the mini-computer era (co-terminus with the original Star Trek), dilithium is the fuel used to power a warp core propulsion system needed for interstellar travel. Dilithium is both naturally occurring and rare, and when it melts, from overuse of the warp core, the starship is ba...

Zoho’s Surround Strategy

Surround strategy is the antithesis of rip and replace. Rather than replacement, a business can move parts of its workload from some workhorse system, say ERP, to Zoho -- where things like pre-built reports and Zia, an AI-based digital assistant, can help business users interrogate data stored on th...

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