14. Customers’ progress through the purchase
decision before engaging sales
Customers are choosing to
delay commercial
conversations with suppliers
57%
complete
Customer due Customer’s first serious
diligence begins engagement with sales Purchase
Source: 2011 Corporate Executive Board Customer
Purchase Research Survey; CEB Research (n=1399)
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17. "…the goal of collaboration is not
collaboration, it’s better
results!”
− Morten Hansen, management
professor at University of
California, Berkeley and at
INSEAD, France
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