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 * DESIGN THINKING, APPLIED.
   
   MAXIMISING CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT.
   
   Who


 * WHO
   
   
   
   BEING GUIDED
   
   BY DESIGN THINKING.
   
   We help organisations to maximise customer engagement in the high-value,
   high-touch sell with business or consumer buyers. This is Design Thinking,
   applied.
   
    
   
   Ian Smith
   
   Your Design Thinker . Slava Ukrayini! 🇺🇦
   
    
   
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   What


 * WHAT
   
   DESIGN THINKING, APPLIED.
   
   IDENTIFIED
   
   THINKING LIKE A DESIGNER.
   
   Curious decision-makers act more decisively, faster. Sellers who think like
   designers can build more receptivity and rapport with curious customers. This
   is increasing the human experience between buyer and seller.
   
   
   Why


 * WHY
   
   DESIGN THINKING, APPLIED.
   
   ENGAGED
   
   MAXIMISING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE.
   
   In a challenging economy, engagement between buyers and sellers must become a
   more responsive, meaningful experience. We help organisations to better
   understand what customers truly want.
   
   
   When


 * WHEN
   
   DESIGN THINKING, APPLIED.
   
   SIMPLIFIED
   
   ACHIEVING MORE WITH LESS.
   
   True to our Design Principle of Fierce Reduction, our work focuses on how to
   simplify market-facing activities. This means bringing customers into a
   co-creation approach to product or service innovation.
   
   
   Where


 * WHERE
   
   DESIGN THINKING, APPLIED.
   
   PROVEN
   
   A RECENT SUCCESS STORY.
   
   Our work with tech startup Tangle.io has resulted in a timely engagement with
   Europe's largest organisation - NHS. This is Design Thinking applied to
   improving a high-value, high-touch consumer experience.
   
   
   How


 * HOW
   
   DESIGN THINKING, APPLIED.
   
   MAXIMISED
   
   PEOPLE-FIRST INNOVATION.
   
   Design Thinking means placing people at the centre of problem-solving. In
   five steps of Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test we help you to
   maximise your customer experience with technology.
   
   
   Lab


 * LAB
   
   DELIVERABLES, NOT HOURS.
   
   ACCOUNTABLE
   
   PAID FOR WHAT WE DO, NOT TIME TAKEN TO DO IT.
   
    * Applying Design Thinking.
    * Enabling Guided Selling.
    * Maximising customer experiences.
    * Extending Salesforce CRM apps.
    * Delivering low-code innovation.
   
   
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 * THINK
   
   BY IAN H SMITH. ON DESIGN THINKING.
   
   Credit Decisioning
   July 18, 2022
   At Being Guided, I work with financial services innovators to speed-up
   qualification and approval...
   Guided Selling
   June 29, 2022
   As our name implies, at Being Guided we help you to increase sales
   effectiveness, through...
   Extending Salesforce
   June 27, 2022
   At Being Guided, I work with tech challengers who deliver new value
   propositions fthat extend...
   Progressive Disclosure
   June 18, 2022
   I work with three Design Principles applied to digital innovation: Meaningful
   Journey; Fierce...
   Fierce Reduction
   June 17, 2022
   I work with three Design Principles applied to digital innovation: Meaningful
   Journey; Fierce...
   Meaningful Journey
   June 16, 2022
   I work with three Design Principles applied to digital innovation: Meaningful
   Journey; Fierce...
   Low-Code Deliverables
   May 23, 2022
   There are two things that can reduce software design and development costs by
   eighty percent or...
   Design Thinking in Sales
   April 14, 2022
   Design Thinking in Sales is the combination of a Method and a Platform,
   designed to meet the...
   Startup Checklist
   March 27, 2022
   Here is my Startup Checklist: some very simple but tough questions that
   venture capital, angel or...
   Success Story. Tangle.io
   March 3, 2022
   At Being Guided, I work with tech challengers who deliver new value
   propositions for digital...
   Three Design Principles
   February 25, 2022
   Here are my Three Design Principles when applying Design Thinking to create
   and sell next...
   Find the Dark Horse
   December 20, 2021
   In a great book on Design Thinking - The Design Thinking Playbook by Michael
   Lewrick, Patrick...
   Servitization Integration
   October 4, 2021
   To quote Professor Tim Baines from the Aston Business School, UK:
   "Servitization is a process...
   Design Anthropologists
   June 11, 2021
   Design has become mainstream thinking: Design Thinking. This may be defined
   as a method and set...
   Ethnographic Thinking
   April 16, 2021
   Ethnography is the structured study of people and cultures. Jay Hasbrouck is
   a strategist and...


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   FIXED-PRICE AND HOURLY RATE SUBSCRIPTIONS AND SERVICES.
   
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   Engage. Sales Coaching - 10 Sessions.
   £550.00
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   Engage. Sales Outsourcing Services.
   £6,000.00
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   Identify. Lead Generation Services.
   £6,000.00
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   Design Thinking Platform.
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   PiercePoint. Messaging Design.
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   Proofpoint. Validation Model.
   £4,500.00
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   Decisionpoint. Closing Process.
   £4,500.00
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   Salesforce Health Check. Level 1.
   £2,500.00
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   £6,000.00
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   £1,500.00
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   Salesforce eDocuments. Automation.
   £5,000.00
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   Salesforce Nested Files. Canvas.
   £4,200.00
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   Tangle.io. App Platform. Annual Fees.
   £12,000.00
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   Tangle.io. Integration. Annual Fees.
   £12,000.00
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   Tangle.io. Connectors. Annual Fees.
   £3,000.00
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   PRIVACY POLICY
   
   When you use and interact with our Websites or Services, communicate with or
   otherwise contact us or visit our offices or attend our events, we may
   collect, use, share and process information relating to you ("Personal
   Data"). These Privacy Statement Highlights summarise our Personal Data
   processing practices and your related rights.
   
   We collect and process Personal Data for a variety of purposes, including:
   
    * The processing of your name and contact information to provide you with
      information about our products, manage your registration for and
      attendance at our events and webinars or for office visits, manage your
      registration for contests or promotions, provide you with customer support
      or otherwise communicate with you.
    * The processing of device and usage data to develop, improve, manage and
      customise our Websites and Services, to assess and improve the related
      user experience, to identify customer opportunities and to guarantee our
      Websites and Services security and continued proper functioning.
    * The processing of your billing information to complete transactions with
      you when you purchase our Products or Services.
    * To provide you with the necessary functionalities required during your use
      of our Websites and Services, and to review capacity requirements and
      compliance with the applicable usage terms.
    * To display personalised advertisements to you and to send to you marketing
      communications about us, our Products and our Services. ;p
    * To comply with our legal obligations under applicable laws of England and
      Wales and cooperate with public and government authorities.
    * We only collect and process your Personal Data to the extent it is
      necessary for fulfilling these purposes and where we can rely on a legal
      basis for such processing. Where required, we will ask you for your prior
      consent to processing.
   
   We may share Personal Data with various parties, including:
   
    * Our contracted service providers that process Personal Data on our behalf
      for IT and system administration and hosting, credit card processing,
      research and analytics, marketing, customer support and data enrichment.
    * Affiliates within our current or future organisation that processEs
      Personal Data for customer support, marketing, event management, technical
      operations and account management.
    * If you are using our Services as an authorised user, we may be responsible
      by accessIng the Services for verifying your account, investigating
      suspicious activity and reviewing the compliance our usage terms and
      policies.
    * Sponsors of events, webinar or contests for which you register.
    * Third-party social media and advertising networks, which usually act as
      separate controllers, so that we can advertise on their platforms.
    * Specifically in relation to our Being Guided Website
      at https://www.beingguided.com, with our third-party Partners, including
      but not limited to Salesforce, who may contact you regarding their
      Products or Services.
    * In individual instances, professional advisers who provide consultancy,
      banking, legal, insurance and accounting services, or if we are involved
      in a merger, reorganisation, asset sale or business combination.
    * Public and government authorities, to the extent we are compelled to
      disclose Personal Data to comply with our legal obligations under the laws
      of England and Wales.
   
   You have certain rights relating to your Personal Data, subject to local data
   protection Under the laws of England and Wales. These rights may include:
   
    * To access your Personal Data held by us ('Right to Access').
    * To rectify inaccurate Personal Data and, taking into account the purpose
      of processing the Personal Data, ensure it is complete ('Right to
      Rectification').
    * To erase/delete your Personal Data, to the extent permitted by applicable
      data protection laws ('Right to Erasure; 'Right to be Forgotten').
    * To restrict our processing of your Personal Data to the extent permitted
      by law ('Right to Restriction of Processing').
    * To transfer your Personal Data to another controller, to the extent
      possible ('Right to Data Portability').
    * To object to any processing of your Personal Data carried out on the basis
      of our legitimate interests ("Right to Object'). 
   
   Where we process your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes or share it
   with third-parties for their own direct marketing purposes, you can exercise
   your right to object at any time to such processing without having to provide
   any specific reason for such objection.
   
    
   
   To not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing,
   including profiling, which produces legal effects ('Automated
   Decision-Making'); Automated Decision-Making currently does not take place on
   our Websites or in our Services.
   
   To the extent we base the collection, processing and sharing of your Personal
   Data on your consent, to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting
   the lawfulness of the processing based on such consent before its withdrawal.
   
   
    
   
   
    
   
   Modern Slavery Act
   
   1. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND POLICIES 1.1 In performing its obligations under
   the agreement, Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall and shall ensure that
   each of its subcontractors shall: (a) comply with all applicable laws,
   statutes, regulations in force from time to time including but not limited to
   the Modern Slavery Act 2015; and (b) take reasonable steps to ensure that
   there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in Being Guided ("Xceliant
   Limited") or subcontractors supply chains or in any part of their business
   
   
   2. DUE DILIGENCE 2.1 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") represents and
   warrants that: (a) neither Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") nor any of its
   officers, employees or other persons associated with it: (i) has been
   convicted of any offence involving slavery and human trafficking; and (ii)
   having made reasonable enquiries, to the best of its knowledge, has been or
   is the subject of any investigation, inquiry or enforcement proceedings by
   any governmental, administrative or regulatory body regarding any offence or
   alleged offence of or in connection with slavery and human trafficking. 2.2
   Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall implement due diligence procedures
   for its own suppliers, subcontractors and other participants to ensure that
   there is no slavery or human trafficking in its supply chains.
   
   
   3. SUBCONTRACTING 3.1 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall not subcontract
   its obligations under this agreement without the prior written consent of
   Customer. In order to help Customer reach a decision on a proposed
   subcontract, Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") r shall provide Customer with
   a copy of any proposed subcontract, together with any other information that
   Aster may reasonably require about the proposed subcontractor. 2 3.3 If
   Customer agrees that Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") may subcontract its
   obligations, Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall implement an appropriate
   system of due diligence designed to ensure the subcontractor complies with
   the principles of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and that the subcontractor
   shall take reasonable steps to ensure that there is no modern slavery or
   human trafficking in the subcontractors supply chains or in any part of its
   business
   
   
   4. REPORTS 4.1 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall notify Customer as
   soon as it becomes aware of any actual or suspected slavery or human
   trafficking in a supply chain which has a connection with this Agreement. 4.2
   Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall prepare and deliver to Customer no
   later than April each year, an annual slavery and human trafficking statement
   setting out the steps it has taken to ensure that slavery and human
   trafficking is not taking place in any of its supply chains or in any part of
   its business.
   
   
   5. AUDITS 5.1 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall maintain a complete set
   of records to trace the supply chain of all goods and services provided to
   Customer in connection with this agreement.
   
   
   6. TRAINING 6.1 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall implement a system of
   training for its employees to ensure compliance with the principles of the
   Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the prevention of modern slavery or human
   trafficking. 6.2 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall keep a record of all
   training offered and completed by its employees and shall make a copy of the
   record available to Customer on request.
   
   
   7. WARRANTIES Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") represents, warrants and
   undertakes that it conducts its business in a manner that is consistent with
   the principles of the Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") if Being Guided
   ("Xceliant Limited") commits a breach of Clauses 1, 2 4 or 7.
   
   MODERN SLAVERY ACT
   
   1. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND POLICIES 1.1 In performing its obligations under
   the agreement, Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall and shall ensure that
   each of its subcontractors shall: (a) comply with all applicable laws,
   statutes, regulations in force from time to time including but not limited to
   the Modern Slavery Act 2015; and (b) take reasonable steps to ensure that
   there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in Being Guided ("Xceliant
   Limited") or subcontractors supply chains or in any part of their business
   
   
   2. DUE DILIGENCE 2.1 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") represents and
   warrants that: (a) neither Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") nor any of its
   officers, employees or other persons associated with it: (i) has been
   convicted of any offence involving slavery and human trafficking; and (ii)
   having made reasonable enquiries, to the best of its knowledge, has been or
   is the subject of any investigation, inquiry or enforcement proceedings by
   any governmental, administrative or regulatory body regarding any offence or
   alleged offence of or in connection with slavery and human trafficking. 2.2
   Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall implement due diligence procedures
   for its own suppliers, subcontractors and other participants to ensure that
   there is no slavery or human trafficking in its supply chains.
   
   
   3. SUBCONTRACTING 3.1 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall not subcontract
   its obligations under this agreement without the prior written consent of
   Customer. In order to help Customer reach a decision on a proposed
   subcontract, Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") r shall provide Customer with
   a copy of any proposed subcontract, together with any other information that
   Aster may reasonably require about the proposed subcontractor. 2 3.3 If
   Customer agrees that Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") may subcontract its
   obligations, Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall implement an appropriate
   system of due diligence designed to ensure the subcontractor complies with
   the principles of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and that the subcontractor
   shall take reasonable steps to ensure that there is no modern slavery or
   human trafficking in the subcontractors supply chains or in any part of its
   business
   
   
   4. REPORTS 4.1 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall notify Customer as
   soon as it becomes aware of any actual or suspected slavery or human
   trafficking in a supply chain which has a connection with this Agreement. 4.2
   Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall prepare and deliver to Customer no
   later than April each year, an annual slavery and human trafficking statement
   setting out the steps it has taken to ensure that slavery and human
   trafficking is not taking place in any of its supply chains or in any part of
   its business.
   
   
   5. AUDITS 5.1 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall maintain a complete set
   of records to trace the supply chain of all goods and services provided to
   Customer in connection with this agreement.
   
   
   6. TRAINING 6.1 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall implement a system of
   training for its employees to ensure compliance with the principles of the
   Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the prevention of modern slavery or human
   trafficking. 6.2 Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") shall keep a record of all
   training offered and completed by its employees and shall make a copy of the
   record available to Customer on request.
   
   
   7. WARRANTIES Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") represents, warrants and
   undertakes that it conducts its business in a manner that is consistent with
   the principles of the Being Guided ("Xceliant Limited") if Being Guided
   ("Xceliant Limited") commits a breach of Clauses 1, 2 4 or 7.
   
   




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