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The likelihood of delivering on the sales strategy is greatly increased when a company focuses on being truly customer centric. Obviously this means understanding the customer's business intimately, but it is more than this. It means making sure that everything within the company is geared to 'adding value' to the customer's experience. It means asking some difficult questions, such as:
- Do we enable people throughout the business to take empowered decisions that benefit customers without prejudice to us ?
- Do we build our organisational structures in ways that customers can understand, or are they designed to confuse ?
- Do we spend enough time seeking customer input into how we expect to grow our business with them and to develop long term relationships ?
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