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The Solution-Centric Organization [Hardcover]

Keith M. Eades (Author), Robert Kear (Author)
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May 23, 2006

The Solution-Centric Organization provides a comprehensive framework for moving companies away from a product/price orientation to a successful, solution-centric approach that includes sales, marketing, communication, and a problem-solving mentality.

Written by the CEO and Marketing VP of Sales Performance International (SPI)_a company that has trained thousands of senior managers in the principles of Solution Selling®_this business-building resource shows how to transform an organization so that it can better solve customers' problems, and thereby differentiate itself from the competition. The Solution-Centric Organization takes managers step by step through:

  • A New Sales Environment:provides the rationale for transforming a company into a solution-centric organization, fully describing the emerging emphasis on solution-centricity, the growing trend in solutions focus, and common reactions to sales performance problems in business today
  • Solution-Centric Concepts and Principles: explains the essentials of solution-centricity and how to embrace them, exploring the implications for sales, the kinds of organizational transformations needed to become solution-centric, and the dangers of “pseudo solutions”
  • A Practical Framework to Drive Performance Improvement: offers a systemic approach for aligning marketing and sales functions to support solution-centric behavior and integrate those activities to improve revenue generation
  • Sales Performance Health Check_presents a methodology for assessing where systemic factors have a negative impact on overall sales performance, featuring objective assessment criteria for each of 26 performance areas and numerous templates and tools for understanding customer problems and needs

    Designed to help organizations capitalize on the realities of 21st century business, this essential management guide contains clear starting points for moving a company to the powerful solution-centric model, plus practical benchmarks for measuring the success of the transformation.

    Authoritative and easy to use, The Solution-Centric Organization equips forward-looking companies with all the concepts, methodology, and techniques needed to reap the rewards of becoming solution-centric: significant competitive advantage, larger sales volume, increased revenue and profit, higher employee morale, and greater customer loyalty.


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    About the Author

    Keith Eades is the founder, president, and CEO of Sales Performance International (SPI). He has consulted with the senior management teams of leading edge organizations and trained thousands of sales and executive management professionals on the principles of Solution Selling®.

    Robert Kear is vice president of Marketing at SPI. He has more than 20 years of extensive, hands-on experience in all facets of technology industry management.


    Product Details

    • Hardcover: 284 pages
    • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (May 23, 2006)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0072262648
    • ISBN-13: 978-0072262643
    • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.7 x 1.2 inches
    • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
    • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
    • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #867,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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    5.0 out of 5 stars What works & WHY..., August 1, 2006
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    This review is from: The Solution-Centric Organization (Hardcover)
    Eades & Kear take The New Solution Selling to a higher level with the application of the principles throughout the enterprise. They examine the interactions and roles of the different departments (HR, Marketing, Compensation, Management, Service, and more) in a detailed yet concise analysis and application of their proper organizational involvement and accountabilities in a solution-centric organization.

    If you have ever been curoius to know either where your roadblocks internally have been or why they exist and how to correct them then you really should make this book a priority. It is a must read for leaders of organizations in the midst of transforming their salesforce and more importantly company from product-focused to client-focused.
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    2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars ...and I thought the first two books were good..., September 4, 2007
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    ...but "The Solution Centric Organization" is amazing. With a pointed message that sales is about getting your entire organization aligned around solutions, Eades and Kear clearly communicate more than the "what" and the "why"--they drill into the "how". With a far clearer writing style than the first "Solutions" books, the authors discern between solutions and 'pseudo-solutions'. The last part of the book gives easy to use tools to ascertain specific areas to improve and it describes ways to begin to get the organization aligned.

    "The Solution-Centric Organization" will impact our company more than any business book I've read.
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    1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great overview of solutions-oriented fundamentals, November 25, 2010
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    Randall Ponder (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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    I found this book to be extremely helpful in understanding--and confirming--what I knew about companies' reliance on product and price and how shallow is this approach.

    As the review says, "The Solution-Centric Organization provides a comprehensive framework for moving companies away from a product/price orientation to a successful, solution-centric approach that includes sales, marketing, communication, and a problem-solving mentality."

    Randall Ponder, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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    Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
    situational fluency, solution messaging platform, defensible differentiators, value defensibility, sales performance problems, systemic drivers, diagnose customer problems, buying sponsors, real customer problems, customer value drivers, reinforcement vehicles, sales management process, revenue engine, selling disciplines, quota attainment, marketing execution, territory planning, critical business issues, core value proposition, sales execution, selling solutions, situational knowledge, sales conversations, power sponsor, solution selling
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    Key Partici, Solution Messaging Cards, Sales Performance Improvement Framework, Key Parnct, Channel Key, Executive Supporting, Review Figure, Evaluation Plan, Finance Limited, Mohanbir Sawhney, Primary Intelligence, Summary Changing
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