Sun, 30 October 2016
Today’s topic is transitioning from sales training to sales enablement. Sale enablement is about driving revenue per sales head up and time to productivity for new sales hires down. Joining us today is Brad Kerst, Senior Director of Global Sales Enablement for Intuitive Surgical, a medical device company. Intuitive Surgical is the leader in surgical robotics, manufacturing and selling the da Vinci® Surgical System. Brad and Greg discuss the difference between sales training and sales enablement. Sales training is the focus on three core areas of technical product knowledge, industry knowledge, and sales skills and execution. By comparison, sales enablement is a focus on the process and analytics to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the sales force. Listen to Brad explain how both are interlocked, with training as the background and context and the enablement side is the execution. Brad goes into detail explaining how sales training and sales enablement are symbiotic. Sales training develops the skills and sales enablement defines the behaviors and skills and generate the insights necessary to drive and maximize results. In the final segment of the program listen to Brad describe his training certification process and blended learning approach.
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Sun, 23 October 2016
On today’s show we discuss product strategy. Our guest is Peter Sheldon, the Vice President of Strategy at Magento Commerce. Magento is a leading e-commerce platform providing enterprise solutions. Before his position at Magento, Peter was one of the foremost thought leaders at Forrester on the topic of e-commerce. The goal of the call today is to think through product strategy using Magento as a use case. Your company’s go-to-market model needs to flow out of the product strategy. There are different types of product strategy: Market Expansion, Market Share and Market Exposure. Very different product strategies. Spend the time to get these right. Your go to market model for sales will be very different depending on which strategy is selected. It’s nearly impossible to build a sales and marketing strategy that makes your number every year if you don’t fully understand the product strategy. The go-to-market strategy for sales and marketing changes significantly based on how you answer these product questions. Listen to Peter bring the question of product strategy’s impact on sales and marketing to life with the Magento use case. Work with your product leader to get answers to these questions to align your strategies. Peter answers a series of questions to help sales and marketing leaders understand the impact of product strategy on the overall go to market strategy.
Listen to Peter respond to each question and highlight how to avoid the traps and the approach the market challenges. |
Mon, 17 October 2016
On today's show we discuss the different types of revenue growth and their impact on company valuation. Our guest is Charlie DeLacey, the vice president of corporate development and strategy at the Kenan Advantage Group. Kenan is a $1.5 billion dollar transportation and logistics business. Charlie is responsible for driving and shaping the strategy of Kenan Advantage Group, who has experienced 10-15% growth on an annual basis. The types of growth discussed include organic and inorganic, and the different returns on capital each type of investment drives. For example, given the opportunity to grow the same amount of revenue through organic or inorganic, Charlie explains that typically organic growth will drive greater value creation. However, there are other variables such as time, capital requirements and execution risks. Charlie describes how to make the decision between organic and inorganic growth.
Direct download: SBI_AP1616-Charlie_DeLacey.mp3
Category:Corporate Strategy -- posted at: 12:16am EST |