August 5, 2016

Salesforce User Training around a ‘Day in the Life of’ the user

We base the curriculum for our Salesforce User Training sessions for clients, on key scenarios that make up a ‘day in the life of’ a user. We […]
August 4, 2016

Requirements gathering sessions

While the mix of sessions, duration and attendees will be tailored for each situation, here are some considerations for your requirements gathering interviews and group sessions: […]
July 31, 2016

Price vs Value

Saw this quote by Buffet while reading on the topic of Value. “Price is what you pay, value is what you get”. Value is thus the […]
February 25, 2016

Capturing Value Back

When companies set out to innovate on business models, they need to be mindful of both delivering value to the customers as well as capture back […]
February 24, 2016

What it means to have a Digital Strategy

The ‘born digital’ companies, have a digital strategy pretty much the equivalent of their business strategy. On the other hand, the traditional company needs to make […]
February 23, 2016

Organizational model for the new business development teams

The sales and proposal teams pursuing new business development need to function as what the book ‘As One’ by Mehrad Baghai and James Quigley calls the ‘captain […]
February 22, 2016

Streamlining your Salesforce CRM Reporting

Over a period of time, organizations implementing Salesforce CRM end up with a large number of customized reports and dashboards. With limited process in place to […]
February 20, 2016

Digital Strategy – analyzing CRM capabilities

A significant part of your digital strategy is about determining where to shift your CRM focus to. When analyzing your company’s customers and their behaviors, ask the […]
February 19, 2016

Profitability Metric for a Consulting Firm

In analyzing profitability of any business, two factors matter: the margin and velocity (or volume). In simple terms R = M x V (R is return, […]
February 18, 2016

Services Goliaths’ struggles with building Salesforce practices

Salesforce has become the poster child of sorts for modern enterprise software. This article is about the larger System Integrators (SIs) building Salesforce practices. Over the […]
February 17, 2016

Organizational Change Management for Salesforce Rollouts

No matter the size of the organization that you are deploying the Salesforce system for, develop an Organizational Change Management Plan as part of your Salesforce […]
February 15, 2016

Salesforce CRM for Onboarding Franchisees

If your business is built on the franchise model for expansion, how quickly and smoothly you onboard and train new franchisees is a key factor for […]
February 14, 2016

Tenant Relationship Management for the real estate firm

For real estate firms, CRM comes down to “Tenant Relationship Management”. Every real estate firm that manages properties has marketing teams identifying target tenants, running campaigns […]
February 13, 2016

Salesforce for REITs – new lease workflows

Real estate Investment Trusts (REITs) own and manage commercial or residential properties such as malls, apartments, office buildings, hotels, hospitals etc. These companies have several processes […]
February 12, 2016

The incumbent’s advantage for digital business

The advantage that a traditional business that has been around for sometime has, when building out new digital businesses is the customer base it has been […]