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Manage Your Stakeholders

Peter Simoons

Tip 22: Manage Your Stakeholders. Inasmuch as we tend to think of organizations as inorganic entities, the fact is that organizations are made up of people. Unfortunately, the world is not always ideal, and there will be stakeholders in your alliance who don’t actually like that the alliance exists.

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Get more sales references without a traditional program

Upland

Even when organizations acknowledge their sales reference processes could be better, it can be an overwhelming problem to confront. A well-oiled, traditional customer reference or advocacy program can be an organization’s strongest asset, but launching, revamping, or expanding a traditional program isn’t right for every organization.

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The Enablement Profession at a Crossroads

Mike Kunkle

This conundrum can breed skepticism, both within the enablement team (as mentioned above) and from the stakeholders in their organization. At least in those organizations, the enablement team was not seen as critical in difficult times or able to support the sales force in getting better results in a crunch.

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Enablement is Hard. Do It Anyway.

Mike Kunkle

There are also other factors at play, such as product-market fit, strategy, the chosen sales model, organization design, or lack of top-down support, that also influence our work. For the remaining steps, see the blog post already referenced above , as well as the webinar and the eBook , to optimize your efforts. It’s not a surprise.

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3 Key Strategies to Cultivate A Customer-Focused Mindset

Force Management

Getting customer-focused is an organization-wide initiative that requires alignment of strategy, messaging, content and seller skills. The first step to creating a customer-focused sales process is to align your entire commercial organization on a new message of value that communicates your solution in terms of customer outcomes.

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5 Ways To Improve Customer Focus

Insightly

Before you can create a customer-focused organization, you need to get your entire frontline staff on the same page ( e.g. the same CRM ). When compiling a comprehensive list of touch points , organize them in phases. download an eBook, check out a blog post). Most companies have plenty of customer information.

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From Waste to Value: Value Stream Management and AI in Action

Planview

In this article, we’ll uncover six key sources of waste that may be slowing down your organization. This happens when teams work on lower-priority items, causing a ripple effect of inefficiency throughout the organization. Aligning work with strategic priorities is essential for eliminating this waste.