One of the fastest and most cost effective approaches to predictable and sustainable sales performance improvements is Inside Sales function. Any sales organisation is difficult to scale up. Field Sales work includes meetings, relationships, in-depth knowledge of the...
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Lead Generation in B2B sales
Lead generation, demand creation, growth hacking, growth, more sales. Whatever you want to call it, you are looking for more customers, more deals and more revenue. Scaling your sales approach To scale your sales organisation and results, you'll need a...
Learnings from AI meets sales hackathon
We arranged an AI hackathon at Aalto University. I’ll summarise our learnings into this post. The assignment We had prepared two assignments: Sales Opportunity Qualification - how can B2B sales teams predict which opportunities they will win? Customer Base...
Increase hit rate with opportunity qualification
Is your hit rate too low? Are your sales people running after opportunities they will not win? Do you think your sales process and sales people are not as efficient and effective as they could be? Qualification of sales opportunities is important Many businesses,...
How to solve efficiency paradox in Sales
Most companies want to have high utilisation across their organisation, including sales. When people work a lot, a lot of work gets done. It makes sense and sounds innocent, right? Well, let’s discuss this. If a sales organisation wants to win business and meet their...
Three levels of Lean thinking
I claim companies can (and should) apply Lean thinking on three levels: An approach to identify, structure and solve problems Management system Specific tools and techniques for specific functions and issues Lean was born in discrete manufacturing processes. The...
Case Study: How to improve hit rate by +20 % in solution selling with Lean Sales
One day a B2B solution sales organisation decided they had had enough and wanted to make a more radical change to their sales process, organisational structure and tools to grow sales and to win more business. This organisation operates B2B solution selling with sales...
100 day Lean Sales Transformation plan
100 day Lean Sales Transformation plan helps organisations create breakthrough results in Sales with Lean thinking. 100 day plan is designed to get Lean Sales Transformation started and to engage your team into work. There are no consultants, only Lean Sales experts...
Lean Sales – process maturity assessment
Is your sales process Lean? How would you know? Lean Process maturity model may help you perform self-assessment of your current state. Sales and selling is different across different industries. Some industries rely more on trust and personal relationships, some are...