Trane Makes Field-to-factory Work

Clearly adopting a field-to-factory vision and then aggressively going after the strategies to fulfill its objectives goes beyond searching for the best of what others have done.

Selling More Profitably Through Channels

The top nine lessons for manufacturers to make themselves easier to do business with when it comes to selling higher margin, complex products.

2010 Trends: Manufacturing

What’s on the horizon for the U.S. manufacturing industry in 2010? Jerry Miller, director of Cincom’s Manufacturing Business Solutions, sat down to offer his insights of the year ahead from the economy’s effects to what Twitter can do for manufacturing to going green.

How to Banish the Boring: Eight Ways to Use Animoto Video in Business Presentations

The best presentations are always great stories. Stories that invoke clashing images that open your mind. But, the “State of the Business Presentation” today is pretty lame. Boring. Bullet-pointed PowerPoint ad nauseum. How to get adventurous when giving presentations?

Who Should Own Your Next Technology Project?

Every key decision maker in business, regardless of their role, will face a technology decision at least once in their professional career. What follows are some ways to best overcome challenges in terms of IT and business executives collaborating on technology projects. Understanding how to empower both IT and business decision makers to collaborate is key to maintaining your competitive advantage.

Urgency Addiction is Not Job Insurance

When urgency addiction is seen as some form of flimsy job insurance – a mirage if you will – people sell themselves short of what they can accomplish.

Channel Management: A Lot Like Marriage?

Often created through years of effort, refined by a continual pursuit of looking for ways to make shared tasks, processes and systems more effective while dealing with occasional conflict, channel strategies have much in common with marriages.

Stop Chasing the Internal Expert and Close More Sales

Product customization is seen as key to sales growth according to recent research.