Business Development
Customer-oriented Business Development for successful companies
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Beschreibung
This book offers a comprehensive guide to Business Development (BD): what it is, what professional skills are needed, why it is vital to business growth, and how to implement it successfully in a corporation. The book draws on the author’s considerable expertise and experience, gained in his position as Business Development Manager for a multinational IT company with offices in a dozen countries.Taking a step-by-step approach, the book reviews the principles of Business Development, from goals and change management, through stakeholder interests, lean startup mentality and corporate culture in general. It also examines the process of Business Development in detail, and includes separate chapters on the structure, life cycle and management of the portfolio and the allocation of corporate, internal and external resources in the development plan. The case study section follows a hypothetical company through the conception, creation and implementation of a Business Development plan.This book inspires readers from corporate executives and managers, to academic researchers and business students.
Content
- Business Development: role, role profile, business unit, process
- Portfolio structure, management and life cycle
- Resources
- Target market
- Market cultivation strategy
- Case study
- Six steps to Business Development
Target Groups
- CEOs
- Responsible persons from sales and marketing
- Project and product managers of all industries
- Students of Business Administration and Business Informatics
The AuthorAndreas Kohne works as Business Development and Sales Manager at the Dortmund-based company Materna TMT in Germany. He previously worked in the areas of Business and Corporate Development as well as the assistant to the management of the parent company in Dortmund. He has a doctorate in Computer Science from the TU Dortmund and writes reference books in the areas of IT and business.
The book provides a compact overview of the increasingly important topic of Business Development (BD). The author not only describes the role of the Business Development Manager and its tasks, but also shows how Business Development can be integrated organizationally into a company. In addition, a prototypical Business Development Process is presented in concrete terms and explained using a case study. The book shows why enterprises fail, deals with new creative techniques such as Hackthons and dedicates itself more comprehensively than so far to the topic of communication in the course of changes.The book helps all, which want to introduce and/or optimize Business Development in the enterprise as responsible ones or work in the future in this range.
Easy to implement business development process General approach that can be used in any business Relevant businsess development case study included
Autor*in
Andreas Kohne
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