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Visible and invisible tech stacks, and the upsides and downsides of “shadow IT” in martech and beyond

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The empirical stack data we recently shared from Zylo, a leading SaaS management platform, showed that even after a year of belt-tightening, the average SMB (500 employees or less) still has 162 SaaS apps. She and I wrote a joint article for Harvard Business Review in 2014 explaining the dynamics driving that shift.

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Enterprise Sales vs. SMB Sales: Decoding the B2B Sales

Unbound B2B

Quick Summary: Enterprise sales vs. SMB sales can help you understand the fundamental difference between B2B sales processes. SMB sales are less risky but faster to achieve. For instance, B2B Enterprise and SMB sales leads are different. Then, let’s decode enterprise sales vs. SMB sales to better plan your B2B growth strategy.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Updated Alinean Social Media ROI.

The ROI Guy

The Social Media ROI Calculator and related ROI research / articles and best practices can be found at: [link] Posted by Tom Pisello at 10:30 AM Email This BlogThis! Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The Business Value of Server Virtualization

The ROI Guy

In fact, according to Gartner’s white paper on Data Center Power and Cooling Scenario Options for the World Ahead, April 2007 during a 24 hour period less than 10% of the typical x86 /x64 server computing capacity is used. 1.38M in net present value (NPV) savings over 3 years (with a 10% discount rate) 4. Latest Research.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing.

The ROI Guy

In his book, and related articles and presentations, Mr. Carr’s main assertion is that the majority of IT investments have become a commodity – a utility that offers little competitive distinction and therefore no competitive advantage. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Latest Research.

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What Is Category Design in Marketing (And Why Is It an Important Strategy)?

Single Grain

In this article, we’ll explore category design 101, showing you how to implement it so that you can succeed in the age of disruptive innovation. The one thing that these companies have in common is that they presented consumers with a new solution that they didn’t even know they needed. Get A Free Consultation.

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