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Servitization 101 – How servitization can strengthen your relationship with your key accounts

Strategic Account Management Association

So, for example, instead of manufacturing and selling a machine tool and ending the transactional customer relationship there, a business instead might produce and sell the machine tool as part of delivering a contracted support and maintenance service. Servitization: a practical example.

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5 Examples of Disruptive Startups to Inspire Entrepreneurs in 2025

Hubspot Sales

This means that you must pair innovation with flawless execution to enable scale and sustained impact, ensuring new ideas can reach mass adoption and fundamentally reshape industries, Avi Pardo, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at LeapXpert , shares. According to its co-founder, the company was born out of this frustration.

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AI and Franchising: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know (+ Examples)

Hubspot Sales

Additionally, Kaufland's data and analytics team integrated documentation into their table creation process to ensure all data is verified and up to date, reduced time to insight, and increased transparency. Furuseth explains how the franchise sought manufacturers to produce for their restaurants.

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The Marketing and Sales roles in this tight collaboration

Cosawi

What follows is a simple example… Imagine that you have a company that manufactures soccer balls. SAMs traditionally are the experts at co-creation, identifying customer pain points and solutions connecting them – guiding customers through the steps of exploration, research, validation, purchase and, ultimately, advocacy.

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Bigtincan to Acquire Brainshark

SBI

With the acquisition, Bigtincan adds best-in-class solutions for course authoring, course content creation, 1:1 video coaching with AI-scoring, and readiness scorecards to help customers train, coach, and assess the buyer-readiness of all customer-facing teams including frontline sellers, field marketing, and support.

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Equipped for the Inevitable: The Owens Corning Story

Luminas Strategy

Based in Toledo, Ohio, Owens Corning — a leading manufacturer since 1938 — is known for its entrepreneurial spirit, focus and thirst for being better. Building materials manufacturers would die for that kind of brand recognition. In 2009, when the bottom fell out of the housing market, building materials manufacturers were hit hard.

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Value Net Model

Flevy

Automotive Manufacturer: An automotive manufacturer leveraged the model to better understand its competitive dynamics, leading to strategic partnerships with suppliers of key technologies for electric vehicles, which helped them stay competitive in a rapidly evolving industry.