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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

In fact, the survey found that 68% of companies find red-team exercises more effective than blue-team testing, and more companies are practicing red over blue. What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective.

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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. But the training was intense! Having a massive, fixed roadmap doesn’t give you the chance to be agile in the long run.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Earlier last year, before we transitioned to outcome-based planning, the leadership team at Yesware did a thought exercise during an offsite. You can create sales training and prepare go-to-market plans for upcoming feature launches months in advance. Putting all the themes together, you could see a rough annual roadmap.

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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

In fact, the survey found that 68% of companies find red-team exercises more effective than blue-team testing, and more companies are practicing red over blue. What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

There’s no use in taking a few months to build an epic 40-page report on the next move when the idea is to be fast and agile. ” And so we went through this exercise, looking for these big areas of additional investment. I’d like to go back to your earlier piece just to help folks who are in the middle of this exercise.

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