Trend Report

Inquiry Spotlight: Sales Enablement, Q1 2009

Tech Sales And Marketing Execs Look For New Strategies In Tough Economic Times

Scott Santucci
 and  two contributors
May 04, 2009

Summary

As the economic downturn persists, Forrester is seeing a lot of introspective activity among executive teams and within sales and marketing organizations about the current go-to-market approaches and various execution tactics. Discrete issues like introducing account-specific go-to-market models, questions about how to reduce the cost of sales, and inquires about what tools to support sales are, in our opinion, all symptoms of a larger evolution from a "broadcast what you do" vendor-centric model to a more "tell me how you solve my problem" customer-first approach. This shift is forcing CEOs, VPs of sales, and VPs of marketing to rethink traditional operating models to drive results.

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