irections emea 2024 vienna
6-8 November 2024

Directions EMEA 2024

Directions EMEA is the "Go To" place where Dynamics partners share the future. It's the preferred global community for collaborating and learning from Microsoft, MVPs, ISVs, VARs and their peers. The focus is on helping the SMB market unlock its full potential in technical, business development and strategy with ERP, CRM, and Cloud solutions, including the Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and Azure.

07-11-2024

Differentiate and Dominate with AI - How to position AI in Bus Apps Sales Cycles

14:00 - 14:45 Room 0.94+0.95 (110) Back to event schedule

AI....customers are interested...partners are educated...but the deals aren't closing. Why? Because there is a LOT of buyer psychology that comes into play when positioning and selling emerging technologies. They hype cycle drives desire and curiosity, but fear and risk undermine the decision-making/approval process. Far too often sellers are attaching AI to the wrong set of business drivers.

This session will focus on how to (re)position AI in your BC/CE sales cycles, based on the key learnings and outcomes of ten global AI practice optimization workshops Neural Impact delivered for Microsoft to leading AI services partners. Learn about their best practices, as well as from some of their mistakes so you avoid them yourself.
AI represents your company's single best chance to drive meaningful differentiation (especially if you focus on defined industries), but the window of opportunity won't be open for long. You'll learn how to transition from IT to business leaders, avoid the "proof-of-concept" trap, and overcome the two (emotional) AI objections that kill deals.

Speakers:

Mark Stuyt

Chief Engagement Officer, Neural Impact

Mark Stuyt is the founder and Chief Engagement Officer of Neural Impact; a sales and marketing consulting agency that applies behavioral economics, neuroscience and persuasion psychology to help Microsoft and its partners radically improve their customer acquisition and cloud strategies.