Marketing, sales, and business development executives face constant
pressure to boost revenue. Most executive teams have considered, and
in many cases, tried introducing solutions, expanding geographically,
and focusing in on the most promising markets. Yet even the most successful
companies miss out on key revenue growth opportunities and fall into
common traps that hamper the best strategies.
42 Rules of Growing Enterprise Revenue is a collection
of practical ideas about the strategies that raise sales to those
most lucrative clients --large corporations. Lilia Shirman combines
observations from almost 20 years of experience in marketing, business
development, strategic alliance management and operations with stories
and lessons from other successful business leaders. The rules cover
a broad spectrum of concepts, including:
- Sales education
- New market entry
- Solutions
- Industry specialization
- Alliances
- Demonstrating value to customers
Some concepts are reminders of the things you know you “should do”
but never implemented. Others might spark new ideas, or inspire different
approaches to old ones. A few are warnings about the roadblocks you’ll
want to avoid. All are practical, concise, and actionable.
Lilia Shirman helps technology companies address complex challenges
in growth and profitability. In almost 20 years of work in strategic
planning, marketing, business development, and alliance management,
Ms. Shirman has consistently delivered measurable results. Before
creating The Shirman Group, Lilia held several leadership roles at
BEA Systems (now Oracle). As head of Business Development for the
ECA Division, Lilia was instrumental in launching BEA's Commerce,
Personalization and Portal Server products and developing relationships
with dozens of complementary technology vendors.
As Director of Strategic Alliance and Solutions Marketing, Lilia
managed marketing relationships with Global SI S, Accenture and EDS.
She launched several joint solutions with these key partners and
raised partner investment in BEA by 30 percent in a single
year. As a member of Accenture's Supply Chain Strategy practice,
Lilia worked with industry leaders including HP, Cisco, Compaq and
Ascend Communications on corporate operations and planning, and identifying
and integrating acquisitions.
She serves on several Directors and Advisory Boards for early stage
web 2.0 companies. Lilia holds a B.S. in Engineering from U.C. Berkeley,
and an M.S. in Technology Management from Stanford University.
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