Examination Paper: Sales Management IIBM Institute of Business Management 1 IIBM Institute of Business Management Examination Paper MM.100 Sales and Distribution Management Section A: Objective Type (30 marks) This section consists of Multiple Choice questions & short notes type questions. Answer all the questions. Part one questions carry 1 mark each & Part Two questions carry 5 marks each. Part One: Multiple Choices: 1. Out of the following which gap arise when the sales force does not have
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Sales Force In the beginning of the simulation‚ Allround started with 135 members of the sale force. A well equip and knowledgeable sales force can also help a company deliver more value to the customer (Winer & Dhar‚ 2016). The decision to add or contract the sale force was based on the simulation reports and the competitor’s sale force. From the beginning of the simulation‚ we came to a realization that sale force plays a pivotal part of the simulation‚ having the right amount of sale person per
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I. Current Situation (1991-1993) 1. History of IBM: IBM is a multinational corporation that started its activities in 1911. But its origins can be traced back to 1890‚ during the height of the Industrial Revolution. It was first known as the Computing-Recording Company‚ and then in 1924‚ it took the name of International Business Machines. Nowadays‚ this multinational company is known as the ¡§Big Blue¡¨ 2. Mission statement IBM main activity is to find solutions to its wide range of clients
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Sales Force of a company is often called the ’face of the company’ because they are the ones who actually face customers on the behalf of their business. And in terms of an insurance company‚ the sales force would be considered an important aspect of the business. Therefore‚ the need of effectively managing the insurance sales force also rises in importance. Effectively evaluating the performance of the sales force is necessary to figure out the loopholes in the performance and to devise ways to
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IBM Case Study 1.) IBM advertises itself as a company that provides service and business solutions. It used to be positioned as a computer hardware company‚ but as more companies like HP and Dell began to pop up they were forced to move away from this image. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with an IBM sales person‚ and he said that they very much rely on the value of their products‚ rather than competing on price. IBM positions themselves as having better‚ but slightly more costly
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reader his own personal insights on how to effectively motivate a salesforce. The article states that‚ "Traditionally‚ sales managers have relied primarily on commission to motivate their sales force. Unfortunately‚ a compensation structure based solely on commission does not address separate motivational factors and therefore‚ commission alone will not motivate your sales force to peak performance." As discussed in class‚ there are other factors more important to employees rather then solely commission
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Running Head: MANAGING THE CHANNEL AND THE SALES FORCE Title: Name: Course name: Course number: Instructor: Date: Kraft Foods Incorporation is the second largest food company in the world. Starbucks are global consumer products group that tries to broaden the Starbucks experience to consumers outside retail stores (Vickers‚ 2005). In 1998 Starbucks signed an agreement with Kraft foods to assist in selling Starbucks products in groceries across the United States of America
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Corporate Restructuring means any change in the business capacity or portfolio that is carried out by inorganic route or any change in the capital structure of a company that is not in the ordinary course of its business or any change in the ownership of a company or control over its management or a combination of any two or all of the above. Reasons for corporate restructuring: Restructuring a corporate entity is often a necessity when the company has grown to the point that the original structure
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Corporate Restructuring: Corporate restructuring is one of the most complex and fundamental phenomena that management confronts. Each company has two opposite strategies from which to choose: to diversify or to refocus on its core business. While diversifying represents the expansion of corporate activities‚ refocus characterizes a concentration on its core business. From this perspective‚ corporate restructuring is reduction in diversification. Corporate restructuring is an episodic exercise‚
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ramifications. Downsizing may occur intentionally as a strategic‚ proactive response designed to improve organizational effectiveness‚ increase productivity and cost cutting strategy. This response may involve mergers‚ acquisitions‚ sell-offs‚ or restructuring to better enable the organization to meet its mission or fill an environmental niche. It may involve reduction in personnel through transfers‚ outplacement‚ retirement incentives‚ buyout packages‚ layoffs‚ attrition‚ and so on or may occur in
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