Interim Sales Manager in medium-sized companies: Resulting instead of consulting!
How to make a successful business restart in times of digitalisation? Interim Sales Managers initiate new business models in the digital change and lead sales teams to old strengths and new successes. This is becoming increasingly important, especially for medium-sized businesses.
Dear interested parties and clients!
I want to find out if I am the right man for the job. For this purpose I have developed these questions over the course of time.
Please answer these seven questions for yourself before hiring me or any other Interim Manager.
Norrie Johnston, one of the leading British Interim Recruiters, shares his best tips for Interim Candidates. This quick checklist should hopefully give you the most answers.
INTERIM MANAGER: these questions, thoughts and tips can be used to help you prepare your presentation and plan the start-up phase of a mandate.
CUSTOMER: these questions, thoughts and hints can be used to prepare for the assignment of an interim manager.
In German there is only one term: digitalisation. In the Anglo-American language area, however, a distinction is made between “digitisation” and “digitalisation” (in the U.S.A.: digitization – digitalization). For once, our language is not as precise as English.
But what is the difference?
“Disruptive” and “innovation” – the two terms are often mentioned in the same breath, but they are also misunderstood and misused. Harvard professor Clayton Christensen is considered the inventor of the Theory of Disruptive Innovation. He is astonished that his theory is applied to all kinds of things. Neither Uber, nor Tesla, nor Airbnb are considered to be disruptive innovators.
I am totally convinced that the more agile a sales organization is to be, the more clearly the rules and scope must be defined. Rules and automatisms create freedom of manoeuvre. Only in this way is it possible for the local salesperson to quickly make clear statements to the customer’s purchasing team. This creates self-confidence in the employee, has a highly qualified effect and accelerates the decision-making process at the customer. This clear assignment of KPI-controlled implementation competencies is part of my concept of Vertriebshygiene®
Everyone is talking about digitalisation. It is changing and presenting companies with new challenges. These are also reaching traditional industries, such as the construction industry. Here, digitalisation is driven primarily by a new methodology, Building Information Modelling (BIM). However, the effects of this are not yet fully foreseeable. What is certain, however, is that business models could and possibly must change.
Interim Manager is not a “trend profession”. Its presence in the media is due to the fact that the shortage of managers in companies is becoming increasingly apparent. Due to the good economic situation in the DACH region, there is an ever higher fluctuation at director level and, in parallel, an ever shorter period of time spent by managing directors and board members. What opportunities and privations does this profession bring with it?
In the near future it should be possible to load all information from WALDNER products into BIM databases without any problems. However, we also use the necessary software to simplify, accelerate and make our internal processes more transparent. This initially requires a change in thinking and rethinking – but pays off in the long term.
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Here you can access my article “Selling in the Metaverse with MetaSales” from SalesExcellence magazine (German only)
MARKETING AND SALES IN THE METAVERSE – Understanding and Profiting from the Metaverse: An Introduction for Businesses. Springer | Amazon
STRATEGIC SALES MANAGEMENT – Insights and Guidance from Top Interim Managers. Springer | Amazon
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