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Master’s
Program in
Sales
Management
STRATEGY AND ALIGNMENT
Nick’s Bio - Highlights
Career:
ComputerLand Canada
◦ 8 Years in Sales and Sales Management
◦ Director of Marketing
Softchoice Corporation
◦ VP of Sales
◦ VP of Marketing
◦ SVP of HR
◦ SVP of Business Development
CultureByBrand
Personal:
Volunteering
◦ Led teams to
Ghana, Rwanda, Bali, Sri
Lanka, Kenya, Uganda and
Guatemala
◦ Board Member for The Strongest
Oak
Fitness
◦ Master’s Swim Club member for 22
years
◦ Club President
Married with one daughter
Agenda
Context
Corporate Strategy Fundamentals
The Importance of Culture in Differentiation
Aligning Marketing Strategy and Sales
Landing Strategy in Value Propositions
Elements of Sales Strategy
Managing Leading Indicators
Conclusion
Two ways to drive company
financials:
Decrease
Costs
Increase
Revenue
Leverage
(Creates Financial Health)
Revenue
Expenses
Productivity
What Challenges are you Facing
Today?
Internally and Externally
Corporat
e
Strategy
IT IS ABOUT WINNING NOT COMPETING
Do you have a Strategy?
Are you growing faster than your competition?
Strategy
Differentiation
Focus (Choices)
Value-Based
Positioning
Alignment
Operational Excellence
Tactics
A Budget
Product Strategy
Examples
Dell (circa 1990)
◦ Cut out the Middleman
◦ Low Cost
◦ Just in Time Manufacturing
Apple
◦ Beautiful design
◦ Revamp ecosystems
◦ Fun, Utility
Tim Horton’s
◦ Soup and Sandwiches
◦ Always Fresh coffee
◦ Homestyle lunches
What is your Strategy?
What is unique about what you offer?
Is there a unique focus that your company has?
Are your resources and processes aligned to enable your strategy?
Strategy Canvas
Strategy Canvas
Time to Practice
(strategycanvas.org)
Pick one of your companies
Inform the Group
What do you do?
Who are your customers?
What makes you different
Create the Factors of Competition for your industry
Plot your company on the Strategy Canvas
Plot at least one competitor
Pick a presenter
Time: 45 minutes
Groups
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
Patrick Graham Kristen Randall Cheryl Rose David Grinstead
Beth Gibbs-Bartel Francois Bosman Patti Anderson Marc Blanchette
John Connors Shaun Furneaux Stephen Miller Carolina Suarez-Maslanky
Craig Gleason Anthony Cianciotta John Cassidy
What did we learn?
Is your company differentiated?
Categories of Value
What We Offer
What Our
Competitors Offer
What a Customer
Wants
A
C
B
D
E
Airline Example:
A. Safety
Route Selection
Schedule options
B. Alliance Partners
C. Friendly Service
Speed
D. Frequent Flier Miles
Seat Selection
E. Car Rental Discounts
Activity Map
(Alignment of all
Resources)
How you do it differentiates you!
Four Actions Framework
Break the Trade-off Between Low Cost and Differentiation
Eliminate Create
Raise
Reduce
Which Factors
should be reduced
well below the
Industry’s standard?
Which Factors
should be created
that the industry
Has never offered?
Which Factors that
the industry has
long competed on
should be eliminated?
Which Factors
should be raised
Well above the
Industry’s standard?
New
Value Curve
Four Actions Framework
(Southwest Airlines)
Break the Trade-off Between Low Cost and Differentiation
Eliminate Create
Raise
Reduce
Which Factors
should be reduced
well below the
Industry’s standard?
Which Factors
should be created
that the industry
Has never offered?
Which Factors that
the industry has
long competed on
should be eliminated?
Which Factors
should be raised
Well above the
Industry’s standard?
New
Value Curve
Speed
Friendly Service
Seat Selection,
Lounges, Meals,
Frequent Flyer
Strategy AND Execution
95% of employees cannot
articulate their company’s strategy
2/3 of IT and HR initiatives do not
support corporate strategy
 Strategy is not cascaded to
Marketing, Sales, etc.
Differentiated
Strategy
ExecutionC M
Culture
Values Drive Culture
Values Behaviours
Culture Brand
Me
We
Internal External
Example – Zappos
What is your Culture?
Is it Unique?
What are your Company’s Values?
What Behaviours do you manage?
When Sales People are destructive to your culture what do you do?
Group Work
(New Groups of 5)
Step 1:
Review the Values and Culture of your key competitor
◦ Careers section of their website or About Us
Step 2:
Identify where you sound the same and where you sound different
Step 3:
Share with your team how your culture seems unique and different
Step 4:
Get feedback from the team on making this more VIVID
What did we learn?
How does your culture help you to differentiate?
Marketin
g
Strategy
TURNING CORPORATE STRATEGY INTO
ACTION
Marketing
What is the Role of Marketing?
What is the Role of Marketing in your company?
Your company has a finite amount of $$ that it is able to spend on
customer acquisition
◦ How much should be spent on marketing?
◦ How much should be spent on sales?
◦ What is the optimal mix for your industry? For your strategy?
•Revenue Growth
•SGA as % or
RevenueKPI
•Cost of Customer
Acquisition
•Business MixKPI
•Sales % of Plan
•Growth Rate
•Sales Comp as % of
Revenue
KPI
•Customer
Retention
•Customer
Satisfaction
KPI
Planning
Strategic
Plan
Marketing
Plan
Sales Plan
Customer
Plan
Vision
Overall Business View
3-5 Year Horizon
Financial Goals
Company Structure
Leverage
Investment
Market-Centric
- 1 Year Horizon
What Segments?
What Offers?
What Competition?
Differentiation
Marketing Spend
Execution-Centric
- 1 Year Horizon
Territories
Coverage
Sales Comp
Business Mix
Biz plan for each market
Customer-Based
- Quarterly or Annually
Customer Value Proposition
Growth Goals
Objectives
Marketing Plan Elements
Section 1: Market Analysis
Section 2: Situation Analysis
Section 3: Marketing Strategy
Section 4: Implementation
Section 5: Financial Summary - Outcomes
Marketing Strategy
What are
we Selling?
• Products
• Services
• Mix and Lifecycle
• Portfolio Analysis
Who do
we sell it
to?
• By Product
• By Segment
• By Geography
• By Channel
Value
Proposition
• Pricing Strategy
• Margin Objectives
• Angel Customers
• Demon Customers
How do we
Sell it?
• Sales Force
• Social Media Plan
• Website
• Advertising
Value
Propositions
Psychological
Value
- Service
- The
Experience
Value Proposition
(Creating Value)
Technical
Value
- Better
Product
- Key Features
Economic
Value
- ROI
- Productivity
$$
The Marketplace
Are all Customers the Same? Is your Market Diverse?
Segment Specific Value
Props
Which slice of the market
do you wish to serve?
Value Propositions
At our company we value ______________________________
This means we ______________________________
We seek to help Customers who ______________________________
Unlike our Competitors we ______________________________
Answering these questions:
Why should someone purchase your offering?
Why should someone purchase your offering instead of your competitors?
What is most worthwhile for someone to keep in mind about your offering?
Exercise - Workshop
Same Groups as before and Same Company
What are the Functional, Economic and Psychological areas of Value
Creation? (where is the primary focus?)
Compare Value Proposition areas to Differentiation areas on the
Strategy Canvas
Are there any key areas of focus? (Customer Segments)
Present the re-worked Value Proposition statement for your company
30 minutes
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
Patrick Graham Kristen Randall Cheryl Rose David Grinstead
Beth Gibbs-Bartel Francois Bosman Patti Anderson Marc Blanchette
John Connors Shaun Furneaux Stephen Miller Carolina Suarez-Maslanky
Craig Gleason Anthony Cianciotta John Cassidy
What Did We Learn?
How helpful was it to have people who didn't understand your industry
asking questions?
Can you drive a preference for your company?
Is every customer a good customer?
What can you apply when you get back?
Sales Strategy
What Do We Manage?
Sales
Management
Representatives
and Territories
Accounts Opportunities
Funnels and
Forecasts
Elements of Sales Strategy
Value
Proposition
Customer
Segmentation
Coverage/
Territories
Use of
Multiple Sales
Channels
Sales
Competencies
Activities for
Sales People
Sales
Management
Sales
Incentives
Efficiency
Productivity
Winning
Recommendation
1. Workshop all elements as part of your next fiscal year planning cycle
2. Work in tandem with Marketing
3. Plan changes well in advance
Leading
Indicators
Lagging Indicators
Examples of Lagging
Indicators
% of plan
Customer Satisfaction
On-time Delivery
Market Share
Win-Loss Ratios
Customer Retention
Customer Profitability
What do these
things have in
common?
Leading Indicators
Examples of Leading
Indicators
Number of Sales People Trained/Certified
Number of prospects identified
Number of customer appointments each month
Number of Demonstrations completed
Number of prospects touched in Seminars
Size of the Sales Pipeline
Sales Cycle
Does The
Rep know
how to sell
the
product?
Do we have
any
identified
suspects?
Have we
had
technical
people on
site?
Have we
done a
proof of
concept?
Have we
presented
an ROI
Analysis?
How about you?
“ When we get technical people onsite we win”
“ When we do a demo we win”
“ When we present ROI cases we win”
Group Work
Break into groups of four
Share your leading indicators
Discuss how you could measure at least one new leading indicator
effectively (Make sure it is Strategically Aligned!!)
20 minutes
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
John Cassidy Carolina Suarez-Maslanky Marc Blanchette Kristen Randall
Anthony Cianciotta Stephen Miller Patti Anderson David Grinstead
Craig Gleason Shaun Furneaux Francois Bosman Cheryl Rose
John Connors Beth Gibbs-Bartel Patrick Graham
What did we learn?
How do Leading Indicators help you to execute strategy?
Glancing Back
Context
Corporate Strategy Fundamentals
The Importance of Culture in
Differentiation
Aligning Marketing Strategy and Sales
Landing Strategy in Value Propositions
Elements of Sales Strategy
Managing Leading Indicators
Conclusion
Contact
Nick Foster
Cell: 416-275-0776
Email:
nick@culturexbrand.com
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Master's program in sales management strategy final

  • 2. Nick’s Bio - Highlights Career: ComputerLand Canada ◦ 8 Years in Sales and Sales Management ◦ Director of Marketing Softchoice Corporation ◦ VP of Sales ◦ VP of Marketing ◦ SVP of HR ◦ SVP of Business Development CultureByBrand Personal: Volunteering ◦ Led teams to Ghana, Rwanda, Bali, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda and Guatemala ◦ Board Member for The Strongest Oak Fitness ◦ Master’s Swim Club member for 22 years ◦ Club President Married with one daughter
  • 3. Agenda Context Corporate Strategy Fundamentals The Importance of Culture in Differentiation Aligning Marketing Strategy and Sales Landing Strategy in Value Propositions Elements of Sales Strategy Managing Leading Indicators Conclusion
  • 4. Two ways to drive company financials: Decrease Costs Increase Revenue
  • 6. What Challenges are you Facing Today? Internally and Externally
  • 7. Corporat e Strategy IT IS ABOUT WINNING NOT COMPETING
  • 8. Do you have a Strategy? Are you growing faster than your competition?
  • 10. Examples Dell (circa 1990) ◦ Cut out the Middleman ◦ Low Cost ◦ Just in Time Manufacturing Apple ◦ Beautiful design ◦ Revamp ecosystems ◦ Fun, Utility Tim Horton’s ◦ Soup and Sandwiches ◦ Always Fresh coffee ◦ Homestyle lunches
  • 11. What is your Strategy? What is unique about what you offer? Is there a unique focus that your company has? Are your resources and processes aligned to enable your strategy?
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  • 15. Time to Practice (strategycanvas.org) Pick one of your companies Inform the Group What do you do? Who are your customers? What makes you different Create the Factors of Competition for your industry Plot your company on the Strategy Canvas Plot at least one competitor Pick a presenter Time: 45 minutes
  • 16. Groups Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Patrick Graham Kristen Randall Cheryl Rose David Grinstead Beth Gibbs-Bartel Francois Bosman Patti Anderson Marc Blanchette John Connors Shaun Furneaux Stephen Miller Carolina Suarez-Maslanky Craig Gleason Anthony Cianciotta John Cassidy
  • 17. What did we learn? Is your company differentiated?
  • 18. Categories of Value What We Offer What Our Competitors Offer What a Customer Wants A C B D E Airline Example: A. Safety Route Selection Schedule options B. Alliance Partners C. Friendly Service Speed D. Frequent Flier Miles Seat Selection E. Car Rental Discounts
  • 19. Activity Map (Alignment of all Resources) How you do it differentiates you!
  • 20. Four Actions Framework Break the Trade-off Between Low Cost and Differentiation Eliminate Create Raise Reduce Which Factors should be reduced well below the Industry’s standard? Which Factors should be created that the industry Has never offered? Which Factors that the industry has long competed on should be eliminated? Which Factors should be raised Well above the Industry’s standard? New Value Curve
  • 21. Four Actions Framework (Southwest Airlines) Break the Trade-off Between Low Cost and Differentiation Eliminate Create Raise Reduce Which Factors should be reduced well below the Industry’s standard? Which Factors should be created that the industry Has never offered? Which Factors that the industry has long competed on should be eliminated? Which Factors should be raised Well above the Industry’s standard? New Value Curve Speed Friendly Service Seat Selection, Lounges, Meals, Frequent Flyer
  • 22. Strategy AND Execution 95% of employees cannot articulate their company’s strategy 2/3 of IT and HR initiatives do not support corporate strategy  Strategy is not cascaded to Marketing, Sales, etc. Differentiated Strategy ExecutionC M
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  • 25. Values Drive Culture Values Behaviours Culture Brand Me We Internal External
  • 27. What is your Culture? Is it Unique? What are your Company’s Values? What Behaviours do you manage? When Sales People are destructive to your culture what do you do?
  • 28. Group Work (New Groups of 5) Step 1: Review the Values and Culture of your key competitor ◦ Careers section of their website or About Us Step 2: Identify where you sound the same and where you sound different Step 3: Share with your team how your culture seems unique and different Step 4: Get feedback from the team on making this more VIVID
  • 29. What did we learn? How does your culture help you to differentiate?
  • 31. Marketing What is the Role of Marketing? What is the Role of Marketing in your company? Your company has a finite amount of $$ that it is able to spend on customer acquisition ◦ How much should be spent on marketing? ◦ How much should be spent on sales? ◦ What is the optimal mix for your industry? For your strategy?
  • 32. •Revenue Growth •SGA as % or RevenueKPI •Cost of Customer Acquisition •Business MixKPI •Sales % of Plan •Growth Rate •Sales Comp as % of Revenue KPI •Customer Retention •Customer Satisfaction KPI Planning Strategic Plan Marketing Plan Sales Plan Customer Plan Vision Overall Business View 3-5 Year Horizon Financial Goals Company Structure Leverage Investment Market-Centric - 1 Year Horizon What Segments? What Offers? What Competition? Differentiation Marketing Spend Execution-Centric - 1 Year Horizon Territories Coverage Sales Comp Business Mix Biz plan for each market Customer-Based - Quarterly or Annually Customer Value Proposition Growth Goals Objectives
  • 33. Marketing Plan Elements Section 1: Market Analysis Section 2: Situation Analysis Section 3: Marketing Strategy Section 4: Implementation Section 5: Financial Summary - Outcomes
  • 34. Marketing Strategy What are we Selling? • Products • Services • Mix and Lifecycle • Portfolio Analysis Who do we sell it to? • By Product • By Segment • By Geography • By Channel Value Proposition • Pricing Strategy • Margin Objectives • Angel Customers • Demon Customers How do we Sell it? • Sales Force • Social Media Plan • Website • Advertising
  • 36. Psychological Value - Service - The Experience Value Proposition (Creating Value) Technical Value - Better Product - Key Features Economic Value - ROI - Productivity $$
  • 37. The Marketplace Are all Customers the Same? Is your Market Diverse?
  • 38. Segment Specific Value Props Which slice of the market do you wish to serve?
  • 39. Value Propositions At our company we value ______________________________ This means we ______________________________ We seek to help Customers who ______________________________ Unlike our Competitors we ______________________________ Answering these questions: Why should someone purchase your offering? Why should someone purchase your offering instead of your competitors? What is most worthwhile for someone to keep in mind about your offering?
  • 40. Exercise - Workshop Same Groups as before and Same Company What are the Functional, Economic and Psychological areas of Value Creation? (where is the primary focus?) Compare Value Proposition areas to Differentiation areas on the Strategy Canvas Are there any key areas of focus? (Customer Segments) Present the re-worked Value Proposition statement for your company 30 minutes Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Patrick Graham Kristen Randall Cheryl Rose David Grinstead Beth Gibbs-Bartel Francois Bosman Patti Anderson Marc Blanchette John Connors Shaun Furneaux Stephen Miller Carolina Suarez-Maslanky Craig Gleason Anthony Cianciotta John Cassidy
  • 41. What Did We Learn? How helpful was it to have people who didn't understand your industry asking questions? Can you drive a preference for your company? Is every customer a good customer? What can you apply when you get back?
  • 43. What Do We Manage? Sales Management Representatives and Territories Accounts Opportunities Funnels and Forecasts
  • 44. Elements of Sales Strategy Value Proposition Customer Segmentation Coverage/ Territories Use of Multiple Sales Channels Sales Competencies Activities for Sales People Sales Management Sales Incentives Efficiency Productivity Winning
  • 45. Recommendation 1. Workshop all elements as part of your next fiscal year planning cycle 2. Work in tandem with Marketing 3. Plan changes well in advance
  • 48. Examples of Lagging Indicators % of plan Customer Satisfaction On-time Delivery Market Share Win-Loss Ratios Customer Retention Customer Profitability What do these things have in common?
  • 50. Examples of Leading Indicators Number of Sales People Trained/Certified Number of prospects identified Number of customer appointments each month Number of Demonstrations completed Number of prospects touched in Seminars Size of the Sales Pipeline
  • 51. Sales Cycle Does The Rep know how to sell the product? Do we have any identified suspects? Have we had technical people on site? Have we done a proof of concept? Have we presented an ROI Analysis?
  • 52. How about you? “ When we get technical people onsite we win” “ When we do a demo we win” “ When we present ROI cases we win”
  • 53. Group Work Break into groups of four Share your leading indicators Discuss how you could measure at least one new leading indicator effectively (Make sure it is Strategically Aligned!!) 20 minutes Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 John Cassidy Carolina Suarez-Maslanky Marc Blanchette Kristen Randall Anthony Cianciotta Stephen Miller Patti Anderson David Grinstead Craig Gleason Shaun Furneaux Francois Bosman Cheryl Rose John Connors Beth Gibbs-Bartel Patrick Graham
  • 54. What did we learn? How do Leading Indicators help you to execute strategy?
  • 55. Glancing Back Context Corporate Strategy Fundamentals The Importance of Culture in Differentiation Aligning Marketing Strategy and Sales Landing Strategy in Value Propositions Elements of Sales Strategy Managing Leading Indicators Conclusion
  • 57. © 2 0 1 3 B Y N I C K F O S T E R O N B E H A L F O F S C H U L I C H E X E C U T I V E E D U C A T I O N C E N T R E ( S E E C ) . A L L R I G H T S R E S E R V E D . N O P A R T O F T H I S P U B L I C A T I O N M A Y B E R E P R O D U C E D , S T O R E D I N A R E T R I E V A L S Y S T E M , O R T R A N S M I T T E D I N A N Y F O R M O R B Y A N Y M E A N S , E L E C T R O N I C , M E C H A N I C A L , R E C O R D I N G , P H O T O C O P Y I N G O R O T H E R W I S E , W I T H O U T W R I T T E N P E R M I S S I O N O F T H E C O P Y R I G H T H O L D E R .