In this month’s edition of Management Today there is an interesting article about bullying. No, not online bullying or workplace bullying, but B2Bullying. B2Bullying is what happens when a (typically large) buyer makes continued unreasonable demands on a (typically small) supplier. In many cases, the buyer represents a significant proportion of the supplier’s business. Here’s the scenario: “Our […]
“Commitment and trust, rather than (or at least in addition to) power and dependence, are now central to discussions of business relationships. Researchers and practitioners have come to view most interactions between business parties as events that occur over the course of a relationship between two or more partners.” The funny thing about business-to-business (B2B) […]
At Deep-Insight, I spend a lot of my time trying to help our clients figure out how to build strong trusted relationships with their B2B (Business-to-Business) customers. Trust is all about honesty, fairness and acting with integrity. It’s one of the most basic elements of human interaction. And perhaps the most basic element of good […]