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Managing a marketing and sales transformation

  • Today's proliferating marketing environment frequently requires a transformation of a company's broad-based marketing and sales elements.
  • Carrying off change of this magnitude at a brisk pace is difficult because of several challenges posed by sales and marketing: organizational diversity and complexity, uncertain competitor and customer responses, and the challenge of balancing creativity.
  • To overcome these issues, executives need to pay attention to the marketing- and sales-specific subtleties around several critical levers for change.
  • The key levers to emphasize are leadership and clarity of purpose, capability building, adopting new ways of working, changing mindsets and behavior, and designing the transformation.
This article contains the following exhibits:
  • Exhibit 1: Successful commercial transformations are made up of five ingredients.
  • Exhibit 2: Employees must learn by doing.
  • Exhibit 3: Companies should target initiatives to change mind-sets.

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