The rise of the internet and email defined the leads era of B2B, when marketing focused on creating and delivering individual leads. A shift is now underway as we enter the buying groups era, when organizations must transform their processes to reflect that the B2B buyer is usually not an individual person. Instead, the buyer is a group of people who may appear independent as they browse websites but are working together to identify solutions for their organization. In this report, we explain how marketing must retool systems and processes to accommodate buying groups, increase effectiveness, and realize an immediate competitive advantage.