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Lessons from the field.

Go-to-market, sales enablement, pricing, and MedTech B2B — grounded in experience, not only theory. What works, what doesn't, and why.

Leadership
August 2026·7 min

Being led by someone with less experience in your core strength.

The risks that can arise when a specialist reports to a less experienced, more generalist manager, and how to assess them before accepting a role.

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Leadership
August 2026·6 min

Same facts, two judgments: why the same track record can be a strength or a threat.

The difference is rarely in the facts themselves. It's in how secure the person judging them feels. A framework for checking your own reaction before it turns into a decision.

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Leadership
August 2026·6 min

Why a job title rarely reflects the actual scope of responsibility.

In smaller departments, a single title often covers several functions at once. Judging resumes by title alone can easily misrepresent someone's actual experience.

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Leadership
July 2026·7 min

Repeated resignations from the same team are rarely a coincidence.

When people keep leaving the same team and the manager consistently looks elsewhere for an explanation, it stops looking like a coincidence, and starts looking like self-deception.

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Leadership
June 2026·7 min

Who are the best leaders? The emotionally intelligent ones.

IQ gets you in the room. Emotional intelligence determines what you do once you're there. Goleman's model, and why EI may be the defining leadership skill of the 21st century.

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Leadership
June 2026·6 min

Who should never be in a leadership role?

Not everyone in a leadership position is a leader. The minimum requirements for leadership, and what happens when they are missing.

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Go-to-Market
June 2026·7 min

What is go-to-market, and why isn't it just a spreadsheet?

GTM isn't a launch plan, and it isn't a marketing strategy. It's the system that determines whether a finished product succeeds in the market, or sits in the warehouse.

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Go-to-Market
June 2026·7 min

GTM roadmap: how to prioritize without losing focus.

A GTM roadmap isn't a Gantt chart. It's a structured view of what gets done when, and what deliberately doesn't. MoSCoW, customer centricity, revenue potential.

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Go-to-Market
June 2026·6 min

Why so few companies launch products properly, and what it costs them.

Launch day isn't the goal. It's one moment in a controlled process. Most companies don't have that process, and they pay for it through unnecessary rework.

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Strategy
August 2026·6 min

From customer statement to requirement: why traceability isn't a formality.

A requirement without a source is an opinion with good formatting. How to trace requirements all the way back to what the customer actually said.

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Strategy
June 2026·6 min

A value proposition is not a feature or a benefit. So what is it?

"Fast, reliable, cost-effective" is not a value proposition. It's a wish list. What a real value proposition sounds like, and how to write one.

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Strategy
June 2026·5 min

Are you really talking to your customers?

Most companies think they know what their customers want. That's not enough. Real customer understanding is a system, not an event.

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Sales
July 2026·7 min

Neglecting existing customers isn't market leadership, it's negligence.

Many market leaders ignore the most cost-effective growth opportunity they already have: their existing customer base.

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Sales Enablement
June 2026·6 min

Why B2B companies leave their best weapon on the shelf.

Most sales teams are product experts without a system for selling. That's not their fault. The commercial infrastructure is missing.

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Sales
June 2026·5 min

Why everyone in the company should speak the language of value.

Not just sales. Not just marketing. When everyone communicates the same value, it creates a level of credibility no budget can buy.

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Pricing
June 2026·6 min

Why CHF 14.99 sells more than CHF 15.00, even when your buyer is a CFO.

Anchoring, charm pricing, the decoy effect. Pricing psychology works in B2B too. Always.

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Pricing
June 2026·8 min

How to set a price: from hardware to SaaS, a B2B guide.

Bundles, freemium, subscriptions, hardware costing, discount logic, pricing psychology. Pricing is the most complex, and most underestimated, element of a commercial system.

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Pricing
June 2026·5 min

When does a customer want to see ROI? The honest answer.

There's no universal threshold. But there are clear patterns. ROI isn't the answer to price resistance. It's the customer's language.

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MedTech
June 2026·8 min

Why MedTech startups fail after launch, even when the product is excellent.

CE marking. Clinical trial. Investor deck. All in place. And yet, six months after launch, revenue has stalled. The problem is almost never the product.

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MedTech
June 2026·7 min

How hospitals really buy, and who actually decides.

The chief physician says yes. Procurement says no. IT has concerns. Anyone who doesn't understand the hospital buying center loses deals that looked won.

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MedTech
June 2026·6 min

KOL strategy in MedTech: why physicians aren't ordinary customers.

A chief physician giving a conference talk is more than a potential buyer, they're a multiplier. The relationship comes before the sale.

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Brand
July 2026·8 min

Brand architecture is a top-down decision, not an accident of growth.

Many companies never get around to building a clean structure of umbrella brand, product groups, and individual products. A look at MedTech shows how to build it top-down instead.

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Brand Management
June 2026·7 min

Brandwashed: why Coca-Cola paints water drops on bottles.

Freshness, purity, refreshment: that's what you're buying, not brown sugar water. How brands use sensory cues to win over the brain.

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Brand
June 2026·7 min

Not every graphic designer is a brand strategist, and why that can get expensive.

Many companies confuse visual design with brand strategy. The result: cluttered brochures and a brand no one recognizes at a glance.

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Social Media
June 2026·7 min

Why most companies don't post every day, and what it actually takes.

Social media doesn't run itself. Why even large companies struggle with it, and what separates channels that work from those that get forgotten.

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Social Media
June 2026·7 min

LinkedIn for B2B: what actually works, beyond the hype.

Many companies post on LinkedIn because they feel they should. Few understand why some posts go viral while others get no response at all.

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Social Media
June 2026·6 min

CEOs on social media: why it pays off and how to do it right.

Visible leaders build trust in themselves, their company, and their brand. But there's a difference between being visible and simply being loud.

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E-Commerce
June 2026·7 min

Why your checkout loses customers, and what A/B tests really reveal.

Red sale prices, a progress bar, one less form field, small changes with a big impact. What CRO data reveals about human buying behavior.

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E-Commerce · Pricing
June 2026·7 min

Why women prefer to buy complete sets online, and how that drives more revenue.

Top and bottom together instead of choosing each piece separately: a concept rooted in psychology, pricing logic, and evidence from U.S. retail.

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E-Commerce
June 2026·6 min

Bundles vs. individual products: when does each make sense?

Product bundles can increase average order value, but only when they're structured correctly. What research and practice tell us.

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ERP
June 2026·7 min

Why 70% of ERP rollouts fail, and how to prevent it.

ERP projects exceed budgets and timelines with remarkable consistency. The causes are well known, yet companies keep ignoring them.

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ERP
June 2026·6 min

When the ERP is on fire: what happens internally when product data is wrong.

A wrong product description isn't a typo. It's the start of a chain reaction that hits production, customer service, finance, and trust.

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ERP
June 2026·7 min

Master data governance: how to systematically clean up a messy ERP system.

Poor master data is one of the most expensive hidden problems in any ERP system. Here's how to fix it and keep it under control.

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