Interesting article from Thomas Baumgartner, Homayoun Hatami, and Maria Valdivieso published by McKinsey&Company:
http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/marketing-and-sales/our-insights/
The authors predict a change in B2B sales:
With more sales organizations turning to technology vendors to solve problems, is it only a matter of time before the whole sales function is outsourced? Outsourcing the part of your business that involves selling to customers sounds risky at first, but for pioneering companies, the fact that the salesperson doesn’t work directly for the company no longer matters, nor is it important that s/he may be selling products from several different companies in the same category over the course of a week. What matters for the manufacturer is that someone is out there pounding the pavement, the phone, and the digital platforms, getting the product into the hands of customers more cheaply and effectively than the company can do itself.
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