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How Deming’s 14 principles provide the foundation for Positionless Marketing by Optimove

Martech

Edwards Demings 14 principles transformed manufacturing by emphasizing quality, efficiency and continuous improvement. The traditional, assembly-line model of campaign executionwhere data, creative, and deployment are handled in rigid stepsis no longer fast enough for real-time customer engagement.

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Predictable Revenue

Partners in Excellence

One of the biggest challenges, particularly now when investors are unwilling to support growth regardless of cost model, is cashflow. The underpinnings of that book are concepts behind lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System (TPS) originated by Ohno, Toyoda, Deming. We put in place SDRs, BDRs, AE, and so forth.

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A SaaS Fairy Tale….

Partners in Excellence

Sales/marketing started applying these manufacturing principles to the “mechanization” of the process. And assembly line process started to emerge. Toss X number of customers into the beginning of the assembly line and Y in POs would emerge from the end of the line. It seemed so predictable.

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The GTM Learning Loop: How to Optimize Your Funnel with Applied Learning

InsightSquared

Adopted by Japanese manufacturing companies after World War II as a way to reduce waste and create competitive advantage, kaizen evolved beyond the assembly line in manufacturing to all business processes and became the precursor to lean manufacturing. Timing your growth.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

This has a number of advantages, skill levels don’t need to be as high, we can leverage role specialization more effectively (creating sales assembly lines with customer widgets passing through each station), and we can effectively leverage all the traditional selling skills.

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Sales Quotas, A Thing Of The Past?

Partners in Excellence

Quota’s are often set in the same haphazard manner, “We did this last year, so we need to do much more this year……” “We need to manage the sales expense, if we set the quotas in this way, it will minimize commission dollars… ” “We need to achieve this much growth in the coming year.”

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Sales Organization Structures for Success: Models, Tips, and Best Practices

Highspot

There are three main models for sales teams: the assembly line, the pod, and the island. The Assembly Line. In the assembly line model, also known as the hunter-farmer model, sales teams are organized based on each individual’s job title. What Are the Types of Sales Organizations? Customer Size.