Using marketing to create a new business with radically new ideas -- Identifying an application and market -- Identifying the market: segmentation and positioning to maximise the value of the product application -- Adoption, diffusion, and understanding lead customers -- Important competitive...

The purpose of this article is to explain why salespeople adopt information technology. The results from a cross-sectional study of 229 salespeople indicate that putting sales technology to use strongly depends on salespeople’s perceptions about the technology enhancing their performance,...