Stronger than expected response to price realignment leads to lower guidance for 2017.
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A critical part of realigning sales resources is reassessing how your sales compensation supports – or competes with – your company’s sales goals. This article, based on a presentation of Mike Emerson, Indian River Consultant Group, at the Sales GPS 2017 Executive Workshop, examines some of the common challenges to aligning compensation with company goals and some options for overcoming those challenges.
This article includes:
- Challenges to change
- Steps to creating change
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With questionable business practices making headlines, capitalism has gotten a bad rap with millennials. Rick Schwartz, chairman of Winsupply and outgoing chairman of NAW, advises that it’s up to businesses to change that perception – or put the future of the U.S. economy in peril.
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- Why capitalism seems to be a bad word
- Why it’s not
- Who is responsible for change
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Where will you invest your cost savings?
Manufacturer deploying machine learning, predictive analytics to lower customer costs.
Too many sales reps are missing opportunities to make a difference.
Manufacturing moves from making to creating.
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Customers investing in capital equipment at end of 2016 boosts long-term outlook.
Optimism high for domestic manufacturing, but global outlook still weak.
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