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Continuing our series on complexity, let’s now examine how we harness the vast complexity involved with today’s technology. One factor differentiating Pipeliner CRM from our competitors—especially high-end systems such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and Oracle NetSuite—is that we have taken the incredible complexity involved with a CRM application and made it simple for the user. ...

Tempus Fugit. That’s the Latin phrase for “time flies.” With the incredibly rapid changes occurring today, this has never been more obvious. As front-and-center evidence, artificial intelligence is now very much with us, constantly in our minds and the media. The old world has long gone past. The new world is now entirely in place. ...

This article concludes our series on mega-threats to the sales industry, inspired by the fascinating bestselling book by Nouriel Roubini entitled MegaThtreats: 10 Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them. Let’s take up the final mega-threat to the sales industry—missing processes and wrong technology. Processes Every activity a company undertakes is ...

This article continues our series on mega-threats to the sales industry, inspired by the fascinating bestselling book by Nouriel Roubini entitled MegaThtreats: 10 Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them. The next mega-threat we’ll take up is the mishandling of data. This is a threat to any enterprise—or, for that matter, ...

Our last article introduced a new series on mega-threats to the sales industry, inspired by the fascinating bestselling book by Nouriel Roubini entitled MegaThtreats: 10 Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them. Now, let’s look at the first mega-threat—which deals with the salespeople themselves. Mega-Changes While researching this article, I turned ...

Nouriel Roubini has a fascinating bestselling book called MegaThtreats: 10 Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them. In this book, Roubini lays out 10 trends that seriously threaten our survival. This book got me thinking: are there mega-threats for our industry coming our way? Thus begins a new series of articles ...

Technology is growing exponentially—faster than we can even comprehend. When my grandfather was a boy, everyone was mainly still riding horses. In 1919 right after WWI, he visited the relatives of his mother in Chicago.  A voyage he had to make first by ship from Rotterdam to New York and then by train from New ...

In the last couple of weeks, the internet has been frantically buzzing over a warning issued by Elon Musk—and supported by hundreds of industry tech leaders—that we should pause the development of AI because of its threat to humanity. Musk states that all companies fervently working on AI development should cease for six months and ...