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Optimi5ed

2013 January 4
by Prosperos World
Business Truth Number 1 = Every business would like to improve its sales performance.  If so, why do so many struggle to do more than make, at best, only marginal improvements?Why are so many organisations unable to develop a coherent response to these critical sales issues?

  • What constitutes a successful sales organisation?
  • What are the separate elements that when optimised have a measurable impact on improving sales performance?
  • What does sales best practice look like?

After a two-year field project looking at this issue, supported by a major study cross-referenced with some of the most robust peer-reviewed academic research available, we have developed a process that reveals what the obstacles are to improving sales performance and how to convert them into strategies that will permanently improve your organisation’s sales capabilities.

We’ve called this performance transformation process Optimi5ed™, a powerful discovery and implementation tool that allows for a tailored, scalable solution to be quickly embedded into any sales organisation.  It can reveal small adjustments that will increase sales success right through to providing a transformational sales redesign required to meet the changing needs of your market place.

What Will Optimi5ed™ Deliver For You?
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  • Optimi5ed™ increases your strategic sales capabilities. It provides a clear road map that connects today’s performance with tomorrow’s opportunities and challenges.
  • Optimi5ed™ delivers quick wins that will give you a next quarter, even next month, performance uplift depending on its scope.
  • Optimi5ed™ is customer centric. It shows how more customers can be found, how wallet share can be increased and how relationship equity can deepened.  It improves your customer management.
  • Optimi5ed™ gets the best from your people through embedding engagement and ownership first, and high functioning skills second.
  • Optimi5ed™ is a holistic system.  That means it doesn’t deal with unconnected symptoms but identifies causes.  It identifies where sales and the wider organisation connect synergistically and where the current key interfaces are not fit for purpose.  This means that when you make changes they stay made.
  • Optimi5ed™ creates value adding, repeatable processes.  It identifies waste in current sales practices and identifies where fast improvements can be made, so increasing productivity and reducing sales costs
  • Optimi5ed™ future proofs your sales organisation. Because of its ability to align your current Standard Operating Procedures with the way your market-place is evolving, it creates not only the ability to take market share but also the potential to become market defining.
  • Optimi5ed™ is grouped around five key dimensions. Each one containing a detailed, structured set of critical success factors that create a gap analysis both against your current business needs and your future market requirements.
By following a clearly laid out three stage process your sales organisation can quickly focus on how to increase its competitive advantage:
Stage 1 The Optimi5ed™ self-perception exercise is completed by the senior executive team to form their own, subjective view of their current reality.
Stage 2 A facilitated workshop where the results are investigated using the Optimi5ed™ proprietary visualisation and analytical process
Stage 3 A clear Optimi5ed™ prioritised action plan showing where improvements in your sales organisation can be made.  These will include tactical, quick wins as well as identifying more strategic development opportunities that will deliver sustainable competitive advantage

To find out how Optimi5ed™ can be used to improve sales performance within your organisation, contact us

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