Our Director of Client Strategy and Director of Customer Success Sales examine how the 'Challenger Sale' philosophy can also be appllied across your Customer Success and Renewals & Expansion teams
The Challenger ™ Sale – How to take control of the sales processDennis Stoutjesdijk
The Challenger ™ Sale – How to take control of the sales process - CEB
The classic relationship building approach to solution selling has become obsolete. To be successful today, sales reps need to provide valuable new insights to their customers and they must challenge them with new perspectives. CEB’s Challenger Sale approach shows you how to open up new opportunities, create organisational capability and successfully take control of the sales process with the right stakeholders.
The Challenger Sale: Commercial Teaching and Your Sales PresentationModicum
Stop Selling, Start Teaching
The Challenger Sale, a groundbreaking book from the Corporate Executive Board, blew our ideas about sales strategy wide open. After extensive research across a whole range of industries, CEB discovered that successful salespeople challenge their customers by not simply responding to their needs but actually redefining them. A good challenger provides insight, helps a customer avoid pitfalls, and offers products and services that the client doesn’t even know exist. This technique is called “Commercial Teaching,” and any teacher will tell you, it’s all about your presentation.
At Propoint, we’ve been in the business of building engaging presentations and other marketing and sales collateral for over a decade. We believe that companies can achieve better results with well-constructed and well-designed presentations. Applying the lessons of The Challenger Sale and Commercial Teaching to your presentation can add additional levels of insight and persuasiveness and is another step toward more memorable presentations.
Four years ago, The Challenger Sale overturned decades of conventional wisdom with a bold new approach to sales. Now our latest research reveals something even more surprising: Being a Challenger seller is not enough. Your success or failure also depends on who you challenge. To win today, you need a Challenger inside the customer organization, a Mobilizer. CEB will reveal what high-performing B2B teams grasp that their average-performing peers don't. Now that big, complex deals increasingly require consensus among a wide range of players across the organization, the limiting factor is rarely the salesperson's inability to connect to any one individual stakeholder. It's far more often their inability to connect them to each other. Join Brent Adamson, Principal Advisor for CEB and co-author of The Challenger Sale. Brent facilitates a wide range of executive-level discussions around the world for Fortune 500/Global 1000 executives in sales, marketing, and customer service.
Check out the session video: http://bit.ly/1MnKzqu
True commercial insight is hard to create. It requires an intensive study of your ideal customer. Once it is created, salespeople must learn how to sell differently (consultatively) and sales managers have a role to play in changing behavior.
This presentation uses ideas from "The Challenger Customer" to illustrate why true commercial insight is so important. It discusses a way to capture commercial insight and convert that into a visual story or whiteboard to enable salespeople to challenge status-quo thinking and create new opportunities through story and conversation - not presentation.
Inside Sales Virtual Summit - Access all of the live sessions here: http://www.insidesales.com/summit/register-2
Matt Dixon - Author of the Challenger Sales & Executive Director, Sales & Service Practice at CEB
LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-dixon/1/17a/8b2
The Challenger Sale Twitter: https://twitter.com/CEB_Challenger
Matt Dixon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthewxdixon
Purchase The Challenger Sale here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591844355/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=12861934284&hvpos=1t2&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13918257381288675219&hvpone=19.26&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_4ltsmqgotn_b
Try InsideSales.com free for 10 days: PowerDialer™ — #1 Power Dialer Software for B2B Sales - http://www.insidesales.com/outbound_power_dialer.php
The Challenger ™ Sale – How to take control of the sales processDennis Stoutjesdijk
The Challenger ™ Sale – How to take control of the sales process - CEB
The classic relationship building approach to solution selling has become obsolete. To be successful today, sales reps need to provide valuable new insights to their customers and they must challenge them with new perspectives. CEB’s Challenger Sale approach shows you how to open up new opportunities, create organisational capability and successfully take control of the sales process with the right stakeholders.
The Challenger Sale: Commercial Teaching and Your Sales PresentationModicum
Stop Selling, Start Teaching
The Challenger Sale, a groundbreaking book from the Corporate Executive Board, blew our ideas about sales strategy wide open. After extensive research across a whole range of industries, CEB discovered that successful salespeople challenge their customers by not simply responding to their needs but actually redefining them. A good challenger provides insight, helps a customer avoid pitfalls, and offers products and services that the client doesn’t even know exist. This technique is called “Commercial Teaching,” and any teacher will tell you, it’s all about your presentation.
At Propoint, we’ve been in the business of building engaging presentations and other marketing and sales collateral for over a decade. We believe that companies can achieve better results with well-constructed and well-designed presentations. Applying the lessons of The Challenger Sale and Commercial Teaching to your presentation can add additional levels of insight and persuasiveness and is another step toward more memorable presentations.
Four years ago, The Challenger Sale overturned decades of conventional wisdom with a bold new approach to sales. Now our latest research reveals something even more surprising: Being a Challenger seller is not enough. Your success or failure also depends on who you challenge. To win today, you need a Challenger inside the customer organization, a Mobilizer. CEB will reveal what high-performing B2B teams grasp that their average-performing peers don't. Now that big, complex deals increasingly require consensus among a wide range of players across the organization, the limiting factor is rarely the salesperson's inability to connect to any one individual stakeholder. It's far more often their inability to connect them to each other. Join Brent Adamson, Principal Advisor for CEB and co-author of The Challenger Sale. Brent facilitates a wide range of executive-level discussions around the world for Fortune 500/Global 1000 executives in sales, marketing, and customer service.
Check out the session video: http://bit.ly/1MnKzqu
True commercial insight is hard to create. It requires an intensive study of your ideal customer. Once it is created, salespeople must learn how to sell differently (consultatively) and sales managers have a role to play in changing behavior.
This presentation uses ideas from "The Challenger Customer" to illustrate why true commercial insight is so important. It discusses a way to capture commercial insight and convert that into a visual story or whiteboard to enable salespeople to challenge status-quo thinking and create new opportunities through story and conversation - not presentation.
Inside Sales Virtual Summit - Access all of the live sessions here: http://www.insidesales.com/summit/register-2
Matt Dixon - Author of the Challenger Sales & Executive Director, Sales & Service Practice at CEB
LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-dixon/1/17a/8b2
The Challenger Sale Twitter: https://twitter.com/CEB_Challenger
Matt Dixon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthewxdixon
Purchase The Challenger Sale here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591844355/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=12861934284&hvpos=1t2&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13918257381288675219&hvpone=19.26&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_4ltsmqgotn_b
Try InsideSales.com free for 10 days: PowerDialer™ — #1 Power Dialer Software for B2B Sales - http://www.insidesales.com/outbound_power_dialer.php
The Challenger Sale Model is a transformation imperative for every organization and needs to be embedded in the sales force . The book explains how to deliver a differentiates selling experience that delivers higher level of partner loyalty and growth . This is a summary of my key takeaways and by no means does justice to all the tools and techniques to reframe customer conversations to make them impactful and memorable
An Introduction to The Challenger Customer [Pat Spenner, CEB]Quarry
Pat Spenner, co-author of The Challenger Customer presented to animal health marketing and sales professionals at NAVC 2016 about the changing landscape of B2B buying.
In The Challenger Customer, CEB research identifies the Mobilizer customer as a critical player on the buyer panel. Engaging and challenging this individual is crucial to your deal’s success.
Every sales manager knows that 80% of business comes from 20% of customers... than why is your company not on the right spot... is it so easy to lock-in a customer or to ward-off the competitors efforts to snatch away your key customers
This SlideShare presentation is an extract of the content I use to train sales people, sales leaders, and executives on a sales and buyer research model for today's dynamic sales environment.
Success in the Cloud requires 3 things:
1) A Compelling Value Proposition
2) Creating Competitive Separation
3) Strategy vs Execution. Making it happen requires execution
The purpose of this deck is two-fold:
1. provide key insights on how to build a highly effective and predictable demand gen engine
2. provide a template for a monthly demand gen dashboard that tracks the value/ROI of your actions
There are numerous other key metrics that are essential for marketing to track but are not represented in this template such as customer experience [NPS, CSAT, etc.], brand recognition & affinity, website analytics, email analytics, PR share of voice, ad campaign effectiveness, and so on and so on.
Additionally, this dashboard is not intended to replace a full sales pipeline dashboard but rather to provide insights on how marketing is contributing to sales effectiveness and revenue.
This is an overview of a webinar sponsored by the EcSell Institute and LucidEra. It focuses on the 6 Pillars of Sales Productivity and the importance of measurement to sales success in this difficult economy.
The Challenger Sale Model is a transformation imperative for every organization and needs to be embedded in the sales force . The book explains how to deliver a differentiates selling experience that delivers higher level of partner loyalty and growth . This is a summary of my key takeaways and by no means does justice to all the tools and techniques to reframe customer conversations to make them impactful and memorable
An Introduction to The Challenger Customer [Pat Spenner, CEB]Quarry
Pat Spenner, co-author of The Challenger Customer presented to animal health marketing and sales professionals at NAVC 2016 about the changing landscape of B2B buying.
In The Challenger Customer, CEB research identifies the Mobilizer customer as a critical player on the buyer panel. Engaging and challenging this individual is crucial to your deal’s success.
Every sales manager knows that 80% of business comes from 20% of customers... than why is your company not on the right spot... is it so easy to lock-in a customer or to ward-off the competitors efforts to snatch away your key customers
This SlideShare presentation is an extract of the content I use to train sales people, sales leaders, and executives on a sales and buyer research model for today's dynamic sales environment.
Success in the Cloud requires 3 things:
1) A Compelling Value Proposition
2) Creating Competitive Separation
3) Strategy vs Execution. Making it happen requires execution
The purpose of this deck is two-fold:
1. provide key insights on how to build a highly effective and predictable demand gen engine
2. provide a template for a monthly demand gen dashboard that tracks the value/ROI of your actions
There are numerous other key metrics that are essential for marketing to track but are not represented in this template such as customer experience [NPS, CSAT, etc.], brand recognition & affinity, website analytics, email analytics, PR share of voice, ad campaign effectiveness, and so on and so on.
Additionally, this dashboard is not intended to replace a full sales pipeline dashboard but rather to provide insights on how marketing is contributing to sales effectiveness and revenue.
This is an overview of a webinar sponsored by the EcSell Institute and LucidEra. It focuses on the 6 Pillars of Sales Productivity and the importance of measurement to sales success in this difficult economy.
Anna Mamaieva: Agile for Sales and Marketing Teams
UA Online PMDay 2022
Website - https://pmday.org/online
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/startuplviv
FB - https://www.facebook.com/pmdayconference
Core Elements of Product Management
- Don’t compromise on outcomes
- The imperative to recognize uncertainty
- The value of Customer Fail-Gaps (CFG’s)
Find more at: https://www.blockchain-product-management.com/
Breakfast Talk hosted by Lee Hecht Harrison: Learn practical strategies and approaches to enable organizational change, lower resistance to change and increase adoption and sustainability of change initiatives
1. Four Product Management mindsets Deploy and balance the Explorer, Analyst, Challenger and Evangelist mindset throughout the product life cycle to avoid common pitfalls and deliver a superior solution.
2. Create context to motivate a high-performing team Practical tips and real-world examples to drive innovation, shared understanding, mitigate risks, and create energy and focus.
3.Understand your profile Evaluate your "go-to" strengths versus where you need to consciously practice, and how to recognize and balance stakeholders’ own.
4. Tools to help you Navigate challenging stakeholder relationships. Emerge with a stronger reputation as a leader when faced with conflicting business priorities, changes in direction, misaligned incentives, resource constraints, unexpected disruptions, and aggressive deadlines.
5. And many more strategies Techniques to say “no” given common stakeholder archetypes, how to diplomatically, authentically yet firmly approach keeping your priorities on track.
How to apply the lean startup approach, MVP, experimenting, testing hypotheses, pivoting, questioning assumptions, learning and failing fast and finding product-market fit within eHealth's regulative markets?
Managing The Sales Force - By Dr. Karpagam Director – Academics, ISBR Busines...ISBR Business School
Managing the sales force -
>Effective Recruiting
>Selecting and training the sales force
>Time and territory Management
>Sales territories and sales quotas
>Compensating sales force
>Motivating the sales force
>Controlling the sales force
>Evaluating the sales force
Customer Success - Why and How of Gainsight's 14 ElementsGainsight
These slides are from a breakfast event Gainsight hosted at the Royal Institution in Mayfair on Wednesday, the 13th of February. Dan Steinman, GM of Gainsight EMEA, and Easton Taylor, Director of Customer Success EMEA, shared best practices around organising for company-wide success and increasing revenue from within your customer base.
How to Evolve Your Health Score From Reactive to PredictiveGainsight
At its most basic level of sophistication, a health score can give you the heads-up on at-risk customers, but only as the customer is already in the process of churning. You may be able to make a save, but it may be too late. In order to proactively deliver outcomes at scale, you need to evolve your health score into a predictive model. This isn't a beginner-level health scoring seminar. In this session, you'll learn how to uplevel your processes to ensure outcome delivery at a much higher rate.
How to Better Align Professional Services to Customer SuccessGainsight
Professional Services are an integral part of your revenue engine. Selling Services offerings doesn't just put money in your company's bank account, it has the potential to give your customers a massive head start towards acheiving their desired outcome. But those benefits are only available to companies whose ProServ organizations are operating in sync with a company-wide Customer Success mission. If your Services team isn't marching in lockstep with your CS team, you're going to miss out on long-term renewal and expansion opportunities, and worse, you could be working against each other. Get very specific advice for better alignment in this session.
How Box Scaled to Millions of Engagements Using Tech TouchGainsight
There's an invisible wall in front of your CSM team. Maybe it's months away, or maybe you're already running into it. But without an army of CSMs (which you can't afford), you'll never get past it—and it's an immovable barrier to your company's revenue growth. As your customer base grows, you have to start automating or you'll never be able to scale. Maybe you have some automated outreach, but the key to lowering your per-CSM customer count is an advanced tech touch system.And that's just the beginning. Automation can infuse predictability, efficiency, and savings into an ad hoc CS organization. Learn how to go beyond one-to-many in this session.
How to Design a Value-Based Renewal Management ProcessGainsight
You can't rely on inertia to renew your customers for you. You can't even rely on customer happiness or delight to ensure a successful renewal event. In the Age of the Customer, the only predictable way to ensure renewal is to ensure your customers achieve their desired outcome. And that's intrinsically linke to value delivery. When you have a renewal process based on value, you're controlling all the variables that are in your control. Learn how to achieve a Value-Based Renewal Management process in this session.
How to Build an End-to-End Process for Defining and Delivering on OutcomesGainsight
When Customer Success has a limited scope at a company, it likewise limits the scope of the outcomes that company can consistently deliver. If the Customer Success begins after onboarding and ends before renewal, what sort of effect can your CSM efforts have on customer outcomes? It's absolutely critical that your success planning strategy encompass the whole lifecycle—end-to-end. And that's just for starters. In this session, you'll learn best-practices methods for understanding customer goals, defining them in concrete terms, and building a scalable strategy to deliver on them.
How to Institutionalize Feedback at Every Stage of Your Customer Journey Beyo...Gainsight
What's the first word you think of when you hear the letters "CX?" Chances are it's "surveys." But a best-practice Customer Experience program is so much more than just surveys. There are a lot of ways to gather accurate, insightful feedback, but there's a right way and a wrong way to get that feedback. There are several advanced tactics that will enable you to bake in feedback across the lifecycle, synchronized to each touch point and interaction your customers have with your company. In this session, you'll get actionable advice to institutionalize this system in your organization.
Science is all about consistency and repeatability. You know that a stone sinks in water because you can drop one in a pool a thousand times, anywhere in the world, and it will never float. Customer Success is a young movement, but we've reached a critical mass of data where we can start to make predictions—and more importantly—prescriptions for what will work for a company and a customer base and what won't work. Learn how the Science of Customer Success has been established and how to get more scientific in your CS strategy.
How to Build a Customer Journey That's Outside-In not Inside-OutGainsight
Here's how most companies used to map a customer journey: They'd start with their initial marketing outreach, advance down the funnel to the signed contract, and then onboard the customer. There would be training, a quarterly or six-month outreach, and finally, renewal or upsell. But think about it: how many of those milestones does the customer care about or even think about? From their perspective, a journey map would look very different. Innovative companies are abandoning this "inside-out" model. Why? Because it doesn't map to how customers actually think or behave. Learn the difference between the old way of thinking and the new "outside-in" way of customer lifecycle management.
How to Turbocharge Your Customer Insights While Making Them More Digestible f...Gainsight
It doesn't matter if you're a born-in-the-cloud company generating massive amounts of customer data or not, you still have so many channels available to collect passive and active feedback from your customer base. But unless those channels can be synthesized into a cohesive view, you're going to miss out on most of your valuable insights. Worse yet, without a unified picture, your signals might be leading you down the wrong path. In this advanced session, you'll learn how to get much more value out of your customer data insights without overwhelming your team or undermining your workflow and systems.
Dan Steinman's presentation at CXO, VP & Directors of SAAS Firms Seminar hosted by Intrinsic Executive Research. Do you want to know why everyone is talking about Customer Success? Is everyone really moving to a recurring revenue model? Does anyone actually know how to help me through this transition? Here is a unique chance to see what one of the world's leading experts, Dan Steinman, GM of Gainsight EMEA, thinks about the topic.
How to Create Healthy Customers in Healthcare IT: Inside Imprivata’s Customer...Gainsight
The best healthcare professionals are able to ask the right questions to get the right feedback at the right time to correctly diagnose and care for their patients. The best healthcare IT professionals must do the exact same thing for their patients.
Join Roelf Kuitse, Manager of Imprivata’s Customer Success Organization, and Ganesh Subramanian, Gainsight’s Director of Product Marketing, as they deep-dive into how Imprivata leveraged the power of Customer Success to generate $15M worth of add-on opportunities.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
How to implement an effective CS org in Healthcare IT
Tactics for reducing risk in complex accounts
How to streamline your customer journey to massively boost expansion opportunities
And much more
How to Build the Ultimate Customer Success Board PresentationGainsight
Is there anything that causes more sleepless nights or gray hairs than planning a presentation before your Board of Directors? There’s so much riding on it, from your next fiscal year budget to near-term headcount to (potentially) the future of your career at your company. You know that every slide, every sentence, every chart and figure will be closely scrutinized.
Our all-star panel has been on both sides of this key business event, and they know exactly what you need to do to prepare and execute a flawless presentation for your board. Alfonso de la Nuez is CEO of UserZoom, a highly customer-centric company. Kristina Shen is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, and no stranger to receiving presentations on Customer Success. And finally, Nils Vinje is VP Customer Success at Rainforest QA and founder of Glide Consulting.
In this webinar, you will learn:
The top three things every CS leader should include in their deck
What board members really want to know about Customer Success
How to blend metrics, tactics, and strategy into a seamless presentation
And much more
In this exclusive webinar, Tiffani Bova (Global Customer Growth & Innovation Specialist, Salesforce) and Allison Pickens (Chief Customer Officer, Gainsight) will go in-depth on why there’s a clear distinction between customer experience and customer outcomes, and why both of them should roll up to an overarching Customer Success Strategy at your company.
How to leverage customer marketing to drive salesGainsight
Do you have an inbox overflowing with unread sales or prospecting emails? On the other side of that pile of unread messages are hundreds of companies with amazing products and potentially game-changing value propositions. But you have no way to figure out which ones are useful and which ones are a waste of time—and you definitely don’t have enough hours in a day to sort them out for yourself.
There’s a better way for both the vendor and the prospect. Join Gainsight’s CCO Allison Pickens and Business Operations Lead and head of Customer Marketing Will Robins as they talk about the methodology that will ensure your sales outreach makes an impact. In this webinar, you’ll learn how Customer Success and Customer Marketing can dramatically bend the curve on pipeline in four highly actionable steps.
There are many reasons why customer accounts can be “at risk” and if you are in the unfortunate position where a customer churns early, you probably will not achieve the desired lifetime value. All of this makes aligning Sales and Customer Success critical. You need to sell the right level of your product to the right type of customer. Listen in to the webinar where we cover the topic of aligning Customer Success and Sales.
How to Unleash the Hidden Value of a Best Practices Voice of the Customer Pro...Gainsight
Your customer base is a constant feedback generating engine. That information is pure gold to any type of business, but especially recurring revenue companies. Unfortunately, it’s lost in the ether when you don’t have a systematic way to capture that feedback, transform it into insights, actualize those insights, and realize the value from the customer.
We call that infinite feedback loop the Voice of the Customer (VoC).
In this webinar, you’ll learn several actionable tips and tricks to spin up a world-class VoC program, as well as what common pitfalls to avoid along the way. Join Waypoint Group Founder and Principal Steve Bernstein and Gainsight Director of Product Marketing Ganesh Subramanian as they explore what makes VoC so valuable and how you can drive that value in your organization.
During the SaaS.City Customer Success bootcamp on Monday the 18th of September 2017, attendees at SaaStock 2017 found out how to manage customer risk, map customer health scores, justify the expense of Customer Success, and so much more.
The Customer Success Bootcamp mentors include Dan Steinman, GM of Gainsight EMEA; David Apple, VP of Customer Success at Typeform; and Cristina Georgoulaki, Head of Customer Success at Typeform. This event was exclusively for SaaStock conference ticket holders.
Customer Success Showcase: How IBM Exponentially Increased Customer Adoption ...Gainsight
If you're tackling Customer Success in a large enterprise, you likely have some enterprise-sized challenges to address. Does this sound familiar? You're leveraging multiple CRM systems. You have numerous different products and equally numerous business units. You've got different stakeholders and each of them wants things done their own way.
And above everything, you need to drive results in this complex environment.
Join Sanders Slavens, VP of Professional Services, Customer Success and Product Support at IBM Collaboration Solutions, to learn how IBM increased customer adoption of one of their cloud products over 10x in a year. Find out how IBM Collaboration Solutions brought together data from multiple CRM systems into Gainsight to drive exponential business outcomes for both IBM and its customers.
It’s budget season, and chances are you’re losing sleep over next year’s Customer Success spend. Have you allocated the right amount for headcount? Technology? Enablement? How will your Finance team respond? Are you even in the right ballpark?
Budgeting is one of the most stressful periods on any leader’s calendar—the stakes are just so high. What you need is an extremely practical, hands-on guide through the process from two experts who know the process as well as anyone—Gainsight’s CCO and CFO, Allison Pickens and Igor Beckerman.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
How to scale your budget based on sales goals for new logos and ARR
Best practices for per-ARR expenditure
High-ROI investments for the next fiscal year
Tactics for setting headcount and CSM account load
And much, much more
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
3. Goals For Today’s Webinar
• Recap of the Challenger Sale philosophy
- How is it different from a traditional sales approach?
- How is it relevant in the subscription economy?
• Discuss ideas for how the Challenger Sale philosophy applies to
the Customer Success role
• Review best practices for applying the Challenger Sales
methodology to commercial post sales operations
4. How Does Challenger Sales Differ From Traditional
Solution Sales?
Solution Sales
• Provides solution to the
problem the customer
thinks they have
• Delivers requested
functionality
• Generally focused on
relationship
management
• Rep driven
engagements
Challenger Sales
• Teaches solution, often
to a hidden challenge
• Delivers prescriptive
solution
• Tailors message
appropriately
• Company wide effort to
create collateral, demo
orgs etc.
5. Challenger In A Subscription Economy
• In a long term subscription relationship, customer goals and
product functionality are constantly changing.
• Repeatable processAdvantages
Disadvantages
• Deprecates relationship selling
• Ignores Initial Value Moment
• Not all scenarios are analogous to complex sales
6. The Challenger Sale Philosophy Applies To Customer
Success
1. Be client outcomes focused, not client happiness focused: Bring an
outcome-driven “challenger” mindset to delivering best practices and change
management to your clients
2. Teach for differentiation: Customer Success teams have the dual
responsibility of delivering outcomes as well as creating (or enabling) content
3. Craft a multi-stakeholder adoption plan: Adoption, like the sales process,
requires delivering outcomes to multiple stakeholders across functions
4. Set the internal organizational foundations to deliver: Challenger Sale
Philosophy requires clear and frequent communications internally to ensure
escalations are managed appropriately
7. Be Client Outcomes Focused
Some observations:
• Change is never easy
• There are times when the CS team knows that the proposed
solution/direction is not the optimal solution for the client
• Clients want CS teams to be prescriptive on the suggested
solution
• Challenging a client on the right solution doesn’t always
make for a happy client in the short term, but makes for a
client that sees outcomes/value in the longer term
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8. Be Client Outcomes Focused – Gainsight Example1
• Step 1: Strategy Session to
align on the right business
challenges to address
• Step 2: Prescriptive best
practices to address those
challenges; documented in
Success Plans
• Step 3: Track progress and
share with the client
• Step 4: Discuss learnings and
adapt processes
9. Teach For Differentiation
Some observations:
• The most impactful CS teams directly (own the creation) or
indirectly (provide input to the creation) influence best
practices and other thought leadership content
• In addition, “agile” CS teams will try new processes to
impact adoption, modify based on learnings and quickly
document it for teaching other clients
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10. Teach For Differentiation – Gainsight Example2
Gainsight Community
aimed to drive customer
engagement & provide access to
Product team & best practices
Gainsight Webinars
Series led by Gainsight CSMs &
Administrator Office HoursGainsight Blog
Weekly posts on hot topics and
best practices
11. Craft A Multi-Stakeholder Adoption Plan
Some observations:
• Most adoption efforts are focused on the “Decision Maker”
role at the client
• Very rarely do CS teams directly focus on end-user
engagement and feedback
• Even more rare is the involvement of front line managers,
who tend to have a lot of influence on end-user adoption
• It’s also hard but imperative to involve other influential
stakeholders from other functions at the customer (e.g.,
Marketing, Support, Operations, etc.)
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12. Craft A Multi-stakeholder
Adoption Plan – Gainsight Example
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• Surveys to gather end-
user feedback
periodically
• Including Gainsight in
Manager workflows and
1x1s
• Involve other functional
stakeholders in
milestone meetings
(e.g., EBRs)
CS
Sales
Renewals
Support
Services
Marketing
Product
Finance
13. Set The Internal Organizational Foundations
To Deliver
Some observations:
• The Challenger approach requires a company wide effort
• It might result in not so happy customers in the short term
aka escalations
• It’s important, at least for the top tier accounts, for all the
cross-functional stakeholders to communicate on a regular
basis
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14. Set The Internal Organizational Foundations
To Deliver – Gainsight Example
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• Cross-functional meeting to manage escalations as one company
• Bi-weekly Key Account Team sync to discuss development –
including Sales, CS, Product, Services and Support
15. The Commercial Challenger Sale
1. Before the sales process begins, ensure alignment and applicability: It’s a
company wide effort to prepare your reps, and not every situation requires a
challenger mentality
2. There are some nuances to executing today: We still need to invest heavily in
the relationship while downplaying our own role
3. This is a team effort: Leverage Customer Success and Exec relationships to
close deals
16. Is this a Challenger Moment?
Some observations:
• Never expect a rep to develop their own content, this is a
company wide initiative.
• You need control over the message and the promised
functionality
• Some reps will default to Challenger mode.
• If the customer contact is well informed and well connected,
consider a relationship focused, solution sales approach
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17. Gainsight Example1
• Calls to Action can identify
key cross-sell, and
transient opportunities
• Success Snapshots can
automate the Challenger
deck
• Utilization metrics can
identify sold out customers
18. Executing on the Challenger Sale
Some observations:
• The Challenger Sale was based on research conducted in
2009, when the subscription economy was still developing.
Relationships have been re-elevated.
• Your company is the expert, not you
Honestly sharing best practices can be a great dialogue
• Have you earned the right to teach?
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19. Gainsight Example2
• Health Scores can exclude
inappropriate customers
• Manual Sentiment risks
can postpone activity
• Dashboards can balance
opportunities and monitor
conversion rates
20. Team Work is Critical
Some observations:
• You’ll be suggesting that your customers fundamentally
change how they do business. Customer Success
Managers can help to reassure the customer of success.
• Your Executive team can really help you to reach all levels
of the customer’s organization, without damaging
relationships.
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21. Gainsight Example3
• Success Plans can
facilitate internal
collaboration
• Executive Outreach
Playbook can standardize
Executive involvement