Added on June 18, 2013
Ray Collis
Buying Process , Dependencies , Executive Sponsor , Featured , Project Behind The Purchase , Sales Success , stakeholders
Sellers Beware: The Project Behind The Purchase
Behind many big purchases is a project. Indeed the purchase itself may be a project, with a set of steps, a project team, project milestones and so on. Adopting the project perspective on the sale is important from the perspective of qualifying and closing the sale.
Added on April 14, 2010
Ray Collis
budgets , business decision , point of view , senior management team , stakeholders
Today’s Buying Is More Structured Than Ever Before
This entry is part of 7 in the series Buying Process
Most large organizations, and an increasing number of smaller ones, have a defined buying process. These processes are increasingly structured and indeed sophisticated. (a) More Sophisticated Buying Organizations have never been better, or at least more careful at buying. In particular, when it comes to major purchases they are applying greater rigor and sophistication to […]