Give Your Champion a Handoff Note for Colleagues
A champion often has to brief people who never met the seller.
A champion often has to brief people who never met the seller.
How did it go is an easy question to ask and a hard one to answer.
A contact may like the product while other stakeholders prefer the current process.
A refusal to make an introduction is a signal, but it is not a license to go around the contact.
Your contact may support a change while facing a real reputational cost if it fails.