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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Read Beyond the Sales Process?
Before, During, and After the Sale
How This Book Is Organized
What Matters Most to Customers
SECTION I. Engage: Driving Success Before the Sale
Strategy 1. Research the Organization: Becoming a Student of Your Customer
What You Need to Know About Your Customer
Where You Can Acquire and Capture Customer Knowledge
How You Can Leverage Customer Knowledge
Testing the Effectiveness of Your Research
Strategy 2. Explore the Possibilities: Giving Your Customer a Reason to Engage
Initiating the Customer Dialogue
The Essence of Exploration: Curiosity and the Inquiring Mind
What Does Your Customer Care Most About?
Are You Willing to Make the Required Investments?
Taking Inventory of Your Assets
Testing the Effectiveness of Your Exploration
Strategy 3. Vision the Success: Visualizing Future Potential Value with Your Customer
A Vision of Customer Success and of Future Potential Value
How Today’s Customers Define Supplier Value
Understanding Your Customer’s Expectations of You
Developing a Collaborative Vision of Customer Success
Testing the Effectiveness of Your Visioning
Strategy 4. Elevate the Conversation: Defining and Pursuing Customer Value Targets
A Word of Caution About Your Customer Conversations
Focusing on the Customer Value Target
Elevating the Conversation
Defining Your Customer Value Targets
Evolving from Before to During the Sale
Testing the Effectiveness of Your Elevation
Case Studies
Zurich Insurance Group
Merck/MSD
BNY Mellon
SECTION II. Win: Driving Success During the Sale
Strategy 5. Discover the Drivers: Understanding What’s at Stake for Your Customers
What Is Discovery?
The “Value” of the Value-Focused Question
The Quest for Actionable Awareness
The Focus of Your Discovery Efforts
Testing the Effectiveness of Your Discovery
Strategy 6. Align the Teams: Developing Customer Sponsors and Supporters
Many Are Connected; Few Are Truly Aligned
The Dimensions of Alignment
Alignment Is As Valuable to Your Customer As It Is to You
Testing the Effectiveness of Your Alignment
Strategy 7. Position the Fit: Competing for Customer Mindshare
Positioning Is All About the Fit
To Position or Be Positioned? That Is the Question
Start with Your Customer, Not with Your Product
What Is Being Positioned?
Planning to Win: The Intersection of Alignment and Positioning
Testing the Effectiveness of Your Positioning
Strategy 8. Differentiate the Value: Creating a Customer Preference
Making Your Plan to Win a Reality
Developing the Ideal Environment for Value Differentiation
Activities for Effective Differentiation
Proving Your Value: Building Customer-Specific Value Messages
Testing the Effectiveness of Your Value Differentiation
Case Studies
Adecco
Honeywell
Panasonic
SECTION III. Grow: Driving Success After the Sale
Strategy 9. Realize the Value: Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations
What Happens After the Sale?
Delivering on Promises and Expectations
Yesterday’s Future Potential Value Is Tomorrow’s Past Proven Value
Value Realization, Consolidation, and Articulation
Testing Your Effectiveness: Realize the Value
Strategy 10. Validate the Impact: Measuring Success with Your Customer
Measuring Success with Performance Impact Zones
Benchmarking Performance from the Customer’s Perspective
Testing Your Effectiveness: Validate the Impact
Strategy 11. Adapt the Approach: Applying Lessons Learned with Your Customer
Understanding How Your Customer Defines Success After the Sale
Adapting Your Approach to Meet Your Customer’s Changing Needs
Embracing Change and Making Needed Adjustments
Validating the Impact on Your Business to Ensure Both Parties Are Successful
Benchmarking Performance from the Seller’s Perspective
Adapting Your Approach and Planning to Grow
Testing Your Effectiveness: Adapt the Approach
Strategy 12. Expand the Relationship: Leveraging Your Past Proven Value
You and Your Momentum: In Motion and Growing Stronger
Building Your Plan to Grow with Your Customer
Ending with the Beginning in Mind
Will Your Engage/Win/Grow Circle Be Unbroken?
Testing Your Effectiveness: Expand the Relationship
Case Studies
Siemens AG
Hilton Worldwide
Securian Financial Group—Group Insurance
Afterword
Index
About the Authors
Copyright
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