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Sales Planning

Sales planning is essential to managing and improving sales performance. Without a planning process, sales metrics and key indicators will provide only historical context and not forward-looking visibility into your sales activities, impacting your ability to achieve the best possible sales performance. But effective planning requires dedicated technology that is purpose-designed and is aligned to the needs of the organization. We're seeking your input on sales planning best practices. Please answer the questions below and click on "Submit" to see how you did and Ventana Research's thoughts on possible avenues for improvement.

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Sales and Operations Planning

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP, sometimes called Integrated Business Planning) is a management discipline that enables executives to assess trade-offs between multiple interdependent business components: demand and supply market opportunities, customer service, inventory investments, production capabilities, supply availability and distribution constraints. The objective is to produce a plan that best fits the company’s strategy and opportunities. S&OP addresses problems that result from uncoordinated and unbalanced decision making in sales, marketing, operations, manufacturing, supply chain product development and finance. The S&OP process amalgamates results from a group of connected planning processes to mediate a balanced solution. Please answer the 13 questions below and you'll receive our customized Dynamic Insights.

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Meet the Robotic Generation of Sales Performance Management

Disparate applications and data sets create barriers with antiquated SFA make it difficult for Sales to know how it is performing and what it should be doing to improve performance. Now, though, a new generation of robotics- and AI-enabled sales performance management applications are now available to help maximize the organization’s sales potential. Applying machine learning and analytics with the right level of automation can create engagement and levels of productivity not possible using yesterday’s approach to sales performance management. Will you invest into your sales organizations effectiveness and motivate them to improve?

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Structured CRM for Business Success

Today more than ever, organizations must prioritize customers and focus on both existing and new relationships in order to increase the value of the interactions with them. A spreading awareness of the importance of customer experiences and interactions has transformed how organizations view not only managing relationships but valuing them. Existing approaches to customer relationship management (CRM),

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The Future of AI and Predictive Sales: New technology can digitally transform sales and boost your revenue potential

Pity the poor sales organization! – always being called on to generate revenue but rarely receiving the level of investment it needs to be able to work smarter and more effectively. Sales force automation and the more recent promise of CRM have fallen short of delivering the insights and guidance that would help improve their ability to prioritize opportunities. Now, enter a new generation of technology in the for of artificial intelligence (AI), and we have actually begun to see the possibility of delivering on the promise of what can be done using advanced analytics and guidance-driven applications. Mark Smith, CEO and chief research officer of Ventana Research, has more than two decades of hands-on and analytic experience in sales processes and technology. In this webinar, Mark will present his research-based insights and lay out the five steps that must be taken by every organization looking to embrace technology to realize full selling potential

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Sales Analytics

Sales analytics is essential to managing and planning for better sales performance. In fact, our research into sales organizations finds that sales analytics effectiveness is a key indicator to plan for optimal sales performance and maximize the potential from quotas, territories and incentives.

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