Anne Slough

Successful alignment is less about process and more about calibrating buyer value. Learn about the five dimensions that top organizations align on — and learn more at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America.

Like other business innovations, digital sales rooms are not a magic wand. Learn what’s needed to capture the biggest benefits — and learn more at B2B Summit North America.

Learn six meaningful ways that the sales organization can contribute to sustainability efforts at your organization today.

The inability to sell in person during the pandemic gave rise to the perception that we needed more meetings and emails — taking away from direct selling time. As we’ve moved past the pandemic, learn what our data is telling us about where sales reps are spending their time now.

(Part two of a two-part series) Sales intelligence, in concept and in practice, has experienced a significant evolution (see part one of this blog series). Today’s sales intelligence providers give insight into buyer behaviors and provide data to salespeople. This helps sales professionals identify, analyze, present, and utilize data to increase win rates for acquisition, […]

(Part one of a two-part series) Effective and actionable key/strategic account plans are an elusive quest for many sales organizations. Throughout my 30-year sales career, I’ve pursued this quest as both a rep and a sales leader. Still, it remains one of the more challenging sales issues I’ve faced. The good news is that help […]

The concept of “sustainability,” as we know it today, was first introduced in 1987 in the famous Brundtland (for Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland) Report produced by several countries for the UN. The report defined sustainable development as meeting “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” […]

In the 1950s, Dr. Lawrence Weed realized the inefficiency and inherent danger embedded within paper-based medical records. Paper-based medical records were a manual process that did not allow for or encourage a collaborative or holistic intake or diagnosis process, and thus, the electronic medical record (EMR) was born. EMRs allow for collaboration between all stakeholders […]

Looking to fine-tune your sales operations? Get eight key takeaways from Forrester’s Q1 2022 Sales Operations pulse survey.

After months of negotiations in Congress, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is about to become law. This new law will address specifics such as climate change, sustainability, and cybersecurity that all have specific requirements which, in turn, will drive your policy and regulation in the future. If you do business with the US federal […]

On October 1, 1990, The Human Genome Project (HGP) was begun and was completed in April of 2003. The HGP gave the world the ability, for the first time, to read nature’s complete genetic blueprint for building a human being. As it turns out, the genetic similarity between a human and a human is 99.9%. […]

Organizations that fail to meet buyers’ expectations for personalized omnichannel communications risk losing market share to competitors that do.

Territory design and the subsequent application and management of those plans is fraught with opportunities for distortion by human intervention. In her latest blog post, Anne Slough discusses the critical role that sales operations plays to maintain equity in the territory design process.

Learn how dynamic guided selling gives sales teams a competitive edge — and join us at this year's B2B Summit to go deeper.

The intertwinement of revenue intelligence, revenue operations, and sales engagement platforms has become a powerful potion. These technologies have been repurposed, retooled, reinvented, and repositioned to equip sales operations for transition from a cost center to a profit center.

With good data, AI can continue to learn and evolve, and by doing so, enable sales reps to focus on what they do best.

When thinking about implementing a digital transformation, there are things sales leaders must consider to align and compensate the organization’s sales resources with the shift. Forrester analyst Anne Slough shares how a digital transformation impacts the sales team’s success.

Customer insights that organizations are able to glean, via technology, have continued to increase customer relationship transparency. These insights equip sales operations teams with the data needed to automate administrative activities. The resulting transparency arms sales operations and reps with a competitive advantage.

• High-impact predictive content is changing the way in which sales operations can influence the sales process
• Sales operations analysis should reveal which content is working best and at which stage of the sales cycle
• These insights will allow sales operations to take a more proactive approach to addressing gaps in performance and process