How to develop a winning data strategy in the artificial intelligent era.

Having read the most recent publication of the author, strategic business and technology advisor Bernard Marr “Data Strategy: How To Profit From A World Of Big Data, Analytics And The Internet Of Things”, we would like to present our ideas regarding predictive sales analytics in business-to-business (B2B).

Marr is an internationally best-selling author and futurist,
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Artificial intelligence and Machine learning revolutionize B2B Sales

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in sales are not dreams of the future. According to Gartner, 30% of all B2B companies will already use AI next year to expand at least one of their sales processes.

What is machine learning anyway?
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How Big Data and Advanced Analytics Are Revolutionizing Sales in B2B, and What Managers Should Know About It.

B2B customer buying experience is radically changing. This trend has led to dramatic changes in the sales profession over the past decade.

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change”, wrote Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Frankenstein. Sales management in B2B is experiencing an abrupt and rapid transformation.

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The top 3 reasons why successful companies avoid changing their CRM and use Predictive Analytics instead

Implementing a new Customer Relationship Management System (CRM) is a minefield for B2B companies. These projects tend to last longer than planned and cost more than budgeted. In many cases, they fail altogether.

CRM vendors are quick to oversell the utopian benefits of their solutions. Companies buy them in good faith without clear and measurable expectations.

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Managing Sales Behaviour to Improve Sales Performance using Predictive Sales Analytics

Improving sales performance often involves coaching and modifying the way your key account managers work – what practitioners in the field of sales & marketing define as behaviour. Changing behaviour usually leads to better performance in B2B sales.

There are several known theories and models about behaviour that have not been explicitly developed for sales professionals, but about general social practice.

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