Sales Enablement, Sales Operations & SalesTech Periodic Table
Our new periodic table brings together all the essential elements of Sales Enablement, Sales Operations and SalesTech excellence.
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How This Periodic Table Works
For the categories or groups of elements, we have extended our 5Ps of marketing technology to apply to the field of sales enablement.
Each of the Ps/categories has core pillars within it, which are the bold, full-colour blocks.
The individual elements contained within each group are the ingredients which combine to create the formulae for sales excellence.
This periodic table serves to identify what needs auditing and developing to advance sales enablement maturity at your organisation.
The Five Pillars
SALES - PLANNING & STRATEGY
Planning is defined as the stages to follow in developing and auditing your organisation’s sales enablement strategy.
From defining the sales initiatives and roadmap to ensuring they align to your customers, buyer journeys and business goals.
The core pillars of planning are the other Ps of the periodic table; process, people, platforms and pioneer. These are highlighted in the block colour.
SALES - PEOPLE & TEAMS
This P is the process of auditing how well resourced your organisation is to deliver the sales enablement plan defined. And the extent to which your organisation can support sales enablement expertise development; recruitment, agency selection and training.
The process will involve auditing sales capabilities of the team and identifying where your organisation needs to upskill, reskill or recruit.
Sales teams and structures differ from company to company, but the core types of sales/marketing function or role that make up exceptional sales enablement teams are common. These are highlighted in the block colour.
SALES - PLATFORMS, APPS & ECOSYSTEMS
The stages and actions of this P are building and managing your organisation's sales stack to deliver on the defined sales enablement plan.
The process will involve auditing the sales stack and sales data flows from an integration, configuration, and management perspective. It will also span into vendor selection and team tool adoption.
While no sales stack is identical, the periodic table includes the salestech categories that make up a common powerful sales stack. These are highlighted in the block colour.
SALES - PROCESS & SALES OPS
This P is made up of the sales and data governance, measurability, content planning, sales messaging and campaign process, that underpins your organisation’s sales strategy and sales enablement activities.
The core sales operations functions are highlighted in the block colour.
SALES - PIONEER & PILOT
This P relates to the extent to which your organisation is up-to-date on market trends; able to react to changes in buyer behaviour and customer trends; able to assess and experiment with new sales technologies; and has the agility to adapt rapidly to new sales patterns.
To both transform to a modern sales function and gain a competitive advantage on what new technologies exist, your organisation needs to pioneer and pilot new sales techniques and tools.
The current emerging and disruptive sales technologies that your organisation should be watching are highlighted in the block colour.
Download a large, high resolution version of the Sales Enablement, Sales Operations & SalesTech Periodic Table by completing the form.
Not enough Sales Enablement for you? Check out our Sales Enablement & Sales Operations Best Practice Guide, here!