Background script:
DemandGen is a great partner, Gaea – here to unlock the potential of business value out of AI.
It’s incredible to see the value that digital transformation unlocks. The benefits don’t happen with words alone. Companies need to be committed to changing how they run end-to-end including culture, competencies and metrics to realize this value.
There is no doubt that organizations investing in AI competence today will be the dominant players for decades to come. I see it every day - at scale in real time. AI transformation is the new digital transformation - Why Artificial intelligence will be critical to your long-term success.
Businesses realize that for truly unlocking business value, they need to not only weave AI into the fabric of their enterprise, but also operationalize it – with the right personnel and change management initiatives. Given that AI can bring both cost efficiencies to business as well as potentially new revenue streams, businesses today are exploring an ‘AI Transformation’
An AI Transformation is doubtless the most strategic subject to be tackled by organizations today. Successful transformations will ensure enterprises go beyond mere automation and cost-cutting strategies and unveil previously unseen business and revenue opportunities.
Mindset of successful implementation – assess where you are, build a team , remove the siloes – especially between sales and marketing.
Use Cases:
Automate Selection of Account and Prioritization
Optimization of SDR Outbound outreach - focus on the high value accounts
Account Data (Fit and Intent) Enrichment for Personalization, Segmentation and Precise targeting
Sales Enablement with Actionable Intelligence for better engagement and conversions
With Mintigo, it’s a true platform in which you can build your own predictive models quickly…. We have customers with 100s of models like CA Technologies, a joint client
Q: What are some of the predictive analytics concepts that you find are most difficult to grasp for marketers?
Q: Which of these do you recommend as an easy starting place for organizations wanting to test out the power of predictive?
Start building a culture of analysis – no more “set and forget”
Benchmarking now also starts to expose some of the gaps in the data that you already collect, giving you early opportunity to improve tracking and capture.
Distribution is more balanced in predictive model, and predictive As and Bs outperform for total won Opp amount.
Q: Do you always see these kind of results when analyzing a clients’ models?
A: Almost always, yes. We’ve compared rules-based versus predictive and hybrid versus predictive-only, and in almost all cases for all KPIs, predictive outperforms rules-based-only.
B2B/B2C subscription sales model with thousands of customers of all sizes and industries
Established, well-known brand, considered a thought leader in their space
Client brought DemandGen in as an unbiased third-party to help diagnose issues resulting in decreasing performance.
DemandGen’s approach:
Discovery interviews with marketing and sales
Review of documentation and reporting definitions
Systems audit
What we found: Siloes
Models had no knowledge of each other’s outcomes
Sales and Marketing looked at the customer differently, impacting routing and SLAs
Sales didn’t understand the models and therefore didn’t believe the output scoring
Marketing measured on lead volume (quantity), Sales measured on pipeline volume (quality)
Work breakdown structure
Communication plans and RACI charts – clarity on responsibility and accountability during transformation project
Get Sales on board with quick wins – “what’s in it for me?”
Get Sales educated on what the score means
Crystal clarity on ownership, next actions and required timeframe to take those actions
Q: Which of these tactics was most key toward “stepping on the gas” for this transformation? Or, which tactic could you not afford to skip or de-prioritize?
A: Quick wins for Sales. You must convince the organization that you are working for the collective benefit, and not in a vacuum.
Agreed-upon segmentation of customers
Applied Mintigo capabilities at all points in the journey
Decision tree executed in MAP to avoid duplication across models
Defined Plays outlining action plan for customer owner
Q: This seems awfully complicated. Does every organization need to take this approach?
A: This is ideal when there is a likelihood that a customer (or prospect) could fall into multiple segments. It also drives the highest likelihood that you deliver the best solution for their needs.
Q: What’s the most valuable step here? Or, which step can you not afford to skip or de-prioritize?
A: Diligently capturing the data that you can.
Which customers are most likely to buy from you? Which products?
Q: Most organizations that we talk to freely admit that their data isn’t of the quality that they prefer. Can they even pursue predictive?