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According to Cummins CIO, Sherry Aaholm, "Millennials--who make up 57% of our workforce--expect to collaborate in real time, with video calls, texting, and coauthoring." Do you have the right tools to support your employees? You may want to consider modernizing your workplace with solutions like Microsoft Teams. At Kirkpatrick Consult Limited, we want you to have a powerful collaboration and communication solution designed to meet the diverse work styles and needs of every group within your workforce. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you plan and implement a modern digital workplace.

What does effective engagement look like? Contrary to what many sellers assume, it's not about increasing the number of interactions or even introducing buyers to the most relevant products. Today's buying process is a combination of self-research by the customer and key interactions with sales reps to answer questions along the way. When is the right moment to interact? Dynamics 365 for Sales can provide insights into what your customers are looking for in those key interactions and when. At Kirkpatrick Consult Limited, we want to help your sales reps meet and surpass buyer expectations. Contact us to learn more.

According to IWG, as many as 70% of employees work remotely at least one day each week. With a distributed workforce, individual team members and diverse employees bring different expectations, preferences, and tool demands. That's why it's important to have the right tools that everyone knows. Adopting a familiar modern workplace with solutions like Microsoft Teams can help bring your workforce together. At Kirkpatrick Consult Limited, we have the expertise and experience to help you integrate the modern workplace you need to achieve more. Contact us today to learn more on how we can help.

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The buyer's journey is changing, blurring the lines between the once separate marketing and selling functions. Companies that are embracing this change are already seeing positive results, with tightly aligned sales and marketing functions experiencing 38% higher sales. What does this mean for your business? It starts with a base of shared data. By using integrated tools like Dynamics 365, these two functions can combine customer data from multiple sources to generate more insights that help nurture leads and provide a consistent customer experience. Contact us to learn how you can market and sell smarter.

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Oftentimes, a prospect has never heard of a company when a sales rep first makes contact. This cold-calling strategy can be frustrating and ineffective, but content marketing offers an alternative. Connected sales and marketing offer a huge opportunity for more effective lead generation and follow-up. By putting out educational content, you can build trust and add value with leads before your sellers initiate contact. At Kirkpatrick Consult Limited, we can help you find the best tools to integrate marketing and sales and boost the value of your leads. Contact us to learn more.

IT shouldn't be a bottleneck for collaboration, yet it happens more often than you think. It's easy to fall into a gatekeeper mindset, but as professionals, it's important to remember the mission of your IT department. As an IT pro, your role should be to enable and support your fellow employees. Adopting a facilitator mindset can benefit the productivity of workers and the firm. At Kirkpatrick Consult Limited, we want you to have the right platform to match your mindset. Let's chat about the best ways to get you started.

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A recent study shows over 40% of SMB leaders expect to invest in automation and machine learning, signifying a shift to analytics-based sales interactions and decisions. With Dynamics 365 for Sales Professional, Kirkpatrick Consult Limited can help your sales organization make the shift. This benefits businesses by shifting low-value work away from high-value employees, but it is also beneficial to employees by allowing them to focus on the more engaging and dynamic aspects of their work. All of these advantages are accomplished through sales productivity technologies such as Dynamics 365 for Sales Professional. Want to make your sales more profitable and interesting? Contact us to learn more.

Park Place Technologies is growing fast. They're using Dynamics 365 to build relationships and maintain a 97% satisfaction rate with more than 13,000 customers. With Dynamics 365, their sellers focus on the right opportunities and pivot when needed. They collect and analyze data to improve productivity and close more deals today, while leveraging actionable insights and predictive analytics that inform where to go in the future. At Kirkpatrick Consult Limited, we understand how important relationships are in driving sales, and we can set you up with intelligent tools to close more deals. Contact us to learn more.

Pharmaceutical company, Lilly, uses teamwork to discover new therapies and accelerate time to market. They use Microsoft 365 to track projects, communicate in real time, and foster innovations at scale. At Kirkpatrick Consult Limited, we know the power of teamwork and tech to improve communication, increase productivity, and accelerate time to market. Contact us today to learn more about unlocking your business possibilities.

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