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The Most Innovative Large Companies in Europe

Destination Innovation

It is clear that Europe lags the USA in producing high growth innovative large companies. However, there are many small companies that are doing surprisingly well and some large ones which are more innovative than you might think. Germany BASF: A chemical company that continuously innovates in sustainable solutions and materials.

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Go-to-Market Strategy Template for Business

Leapfrogging

What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Go-to-Market Strategy: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects A Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is a structured plan that defines how a company will introduce a product or service to the market, attract customers, and achieve a competitive advantage.

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Eight Companies that Switched What They Did

Destination Innovation

Here are examples of eight successful companies which switched from one activity to another in order to meet a customer need. Berkshire Hathaway was originally a textile manufacturing company established by Oliver Chace in 1839 in Rhode Island. He used it as a vehicle to buy stakes in insurance companies and other businesses.

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Examples of Lateral Thinking in Marketing

Destination Innovation

Brand marketing offers tremendous scope for lateral thinking. Its whole branding, messaging and advertising is posited on one ridiculously obscure piece of lateral thinking – that customers might confuse the words market and meerkat and so search for comparethemeerkat.com. Bland marketing upsets no-one and no-one remembers it.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Is your market large enough?

Idea to Value

All of the ideas above might be possible high-quality products, which would be extremely sought-after by the target market. The total market for the innovation is not viable. Many companies successfully innovate and develop products and services for extremely focused customer segments. Probably not. Quite the opposite.

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The Modern Rental Market According to the Experts

Business and Tech

Real estate industry leaders share their insights on how the rental market has evolved in the face of COVID-19 and rapidly advancing technology. Almost half of the companies included in the report indicated that they did not detect the fraudulent information before the person moved in. Dylan Lenz Founder and CEO, Naborly.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. Stakeholder Engagement 👥 Learn strategies to secure buy-in from sales, marketing, and executives.

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

Fact: Only 8% of sales and marketing professionals say their data is between 91% - 100% accurate. In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. of companies achieved a score indicating maturity in data management practices in the space.".

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Going to Market Smarter in the New Economy

The fight to find new customers and retain existing ones is the biggest business challenge for many companies. In 2022, as companies continue to move more functions online, employees will take a more virtual -- and flexible -- mindset and lifestyle in parallel to the digitization of businesses.

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Fuel the Engine of Product Growth with an Impeccable Framing Model

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst - President, Tyner Blain

A product-led company is one that grows through user adoption and word-of-mouth recommendation. Usage by individuals then drives companies to purchase subscriptions or licenses. For this model to work, your product has to be genuinely desirable to the users you want to engage as the company's engine of growth.

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100 Pipeline Plays: The Modern Sales Playbook

For the first time, we’re sharing the winning plays that took us from scrappy startup to a publicly traded company. Meet your modern sales playbook - See how high-performing sales and marketing teams increase pipeline year-over-year. Use our proven data-driven plays to grow your pipeline and crush your revenue targets.

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Foundational ABM Building Blocks

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a key strategy for driving sustainable growth. Today, many B2B companies use ABM teams or technologies to make sales. But getting a program off the ground successfully doesn’t have to be a daunting task.

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How to Develop a Recession-Proof Product-Led Strategy

Speaker: Wes Bush, Author of "Product-Led Growth"

Zoom, Stripe, and Airtable are all examples of software companies with strong PLG strategies. What features do their strategies have that allow them to see continued success in this ever-changing market? But what else do they have in common?

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals.