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Three Value Perspectives: Business, Functional and Personal

The ROI Guy

For example, helping gain awards or accolades from executives and peers, going home early to be with family and kids, getting a promotion, and reducing risk of job disintermediation or disruptive job loss. When it comes to value, many think its all about financially quantifying the ROI impact of proposed solutions.

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Gartner: Are Your Ready for More Buyers and the IT to Business Shift?

The ROI Guy

More stakeholders than ever are engaged in enterprise buying decisions. According to Gartner, the average enterprise technology buying team now includes more than 13 people ! And to make it even more of a challenge, these active participants can shift depending on the stage in the buying journey. Who’s in Charge: The Business or IT?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

The consumer is now in charge: researching specifications, configuring and customizing solutions, getting peer reviews and advice, comparing prices, and “buying now&#. To prevent complete disintermediation of sales from the prospect’s decision making process, sales professionals must be made relevant and important again to buyers.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

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Evaluate: Buyers take a closer look at options uncovered while exploring, again leaning heavily on self-directed search and peer interactions as well as vendor sales representatives. So any effective sales model must adapt to changing buying protocols, not ignore or resist them. The sales force is more important than ever.

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What Is Web 3.0? The Future of the Internet

Single Grain

is the latest Internet technology that leverages machine learning, artificial intelligence and blockchain to achieve real-world human communication. The icing on the cake is that web 3.0 not only allows individuals to own their data, but they will be compensated for their time spent on the web. Sound too good to be true? Ubiquitous – Web 3.0

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PKM and the Organization - Pollard

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Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. September 2006. Its time for the knowledge champions of the world to get together, and to get our act. together. I believe time is running out.