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Sales Operations

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Sun Jul 26 2009

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Your critical sales dashboard for aligning measurement and effectiveness...

Sales operations is an over overlooked area of the professional selling system. Sales operations team members are responsible for a helping sales team members attain success by designing processes, tools, and controls to support the sales process. An effective sales operation function supports sales management decision-marking by helping to monitor current business processes and sales productivity tools for adequacy. Sales operations staff also develop and drive strategic infrastructure planning efforts by collaborating with business planners, functional leaders, and sales management team members.

Sales operations employees are also responsible for driving or supporting infrastructure change and alignment. Therefore, collaboration with sales and operational management is very important in order to develop change management strategies and programs.

Think about it:

When does the sales process begin?

When does it end?

Sales operations helps you align sales effort to performance and determine exactly what it takes to improve selling efforts.

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The Association for Talent Development (ATD) is a professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees in organizations around the world. The ATD Staff, along with a worldwide network of volunteers work to empower professionals to develop talent in the workplace.