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Sales and Marketing: Leveraging Specialization and Collaboration

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Upcoming Sessions
 
Key Benefits
During this program, you will:
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Learn why the complex work of a customer-facing organization leads to the need for Sales and
Marketing specialization
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Develop an appreciation for how specialization of Sales and Marketing increases overall effectiveness while creating diverging thought worlds, and
coordination and collaboration challenges
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Discuss strategies to leverage the strengths of Sales and Marketing while overcoming points of conflict by focusing on customer value and company success
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Tailor Sales and Marketing coordination solutions to specific business models and environments
Academic Director Andris Zoltners
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Academic Director Andris Zoltners
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Program Content
 

Framework for Sales and Marketing Success

  • The case for increased effectiveness through Sales and Marketing specialization
  • Defining the key activities of Sales and of Marketing for customer facing organizations
  • How aligning Sales and Marketing increases customer value leading to sales success
 

Challenges of Sales and Marketing Specialization

  • The coordination and collaboration challenges arising from separate and shared Sales and Marketing roles
  • How the differences between Sales and Marketing roles and skills lead to conflicting thought worlds
 

Overcoming Conflicts between Sales and Marketing

  • The role of people, process, structure, and culture in achieving Sales and Marketing alignment
  • Alternative models to achieve Sales and Marketing alignment based on industry and sales environment
 
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