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Master Deck - A Salesforce Project With GSH
Master Deck - A Salesforce Project With GSH
Sales Methodology & Processes Data & Sales Analytics Technical Complexity
Create simple and data-driven ways to drive optimal Obtain the right information at the right time and Reduce technical complexity, a barrier to
employee and customer experiences turn it into actionable insights via AI speed to value
Business
Value
Goal: Listen and learn what are the most critical business issues that the customer is facing. The goal is to understand the
customer’s vision for the company, strategic initiatives, and business priorities before recommending any technology solutions
Digital Experience Opportunity Product Catalog Billing Management Customer Onboarding Case Management
Management Management Management (One-Time)
Customer Training Service Contract
Lead Management Account and Contacts Pricing Management Invoice Management Management (SLA
Management Customer Health and Entitlements)
Campaign Guided Solution Revenue Recognition Monitoring
Management Customer 360 Configuration Self-Service
Credits and Feedback/VOC
Email Marketing Cross/Up Sell Promotions Collections Asset Management
Management Management
Social Media Trials, Setup Fee Omni-Channel
Marketing Activity Management Quote Management Support Contact Center
Pre-project
Experience Cloud
Pardot
Core processes
Measuring the ROI
on a GSH project
Capturing baseline metrics
Capturing baseline metrics before the implementation process will help you analyze your ROI in
the most effective manner post implementation.
You can start off by boiling down all quantitative benefits gathered from performance metrics
across each department and then move to measuring qualitative benefits (which cannot be
quantified), such as user adoption and customer happiness.
Metrics Description
Productivity Can you decrease the amount of time spent on invoicing etc?
Audit fees Do you decrease the amount of errors and avoiding audit fees?
IT costs
(Support/admin development, integration,
What are the overall costs associated with IT?
IT
- Peakon eNPS for the team using the system (compare before and after)
- The Peakon question “I have the tools necessary to do my job”
- A survey - “is our CRM/Subscription mgmt system any good?” OR “The system makes my job
easier” - Yes or No
This way you will stay abreast on the user experience without having to deal with complex
reporting mechanisms.
Business Enablement
Do you have business models that you can’t implement due to limitations in existing systems
today? Many times, a more powerful tool unlock innovation in how we do business. These are
often the most interesting ROI’s to measure.
Examples:
Reliability
Innovation
Competence
Team spirit
Sales Excellence Capability Map
SALES EXCELLENCE
Sales Excellence Capability Map
FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES FOUNDATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Pipeline
Account
Strategy & Customer Centric One Team Aligned
Segmentation Business Processes Around the Customer
Programs
Territory
Human-Centered Design Aligned Vision
Sales Support
Management Connected Experiences Employee Experiences
Personalized Experiences Maximized Collaboration
Account &
Channel Sales
Contact Empowered Employees
Strategy Enablement
Management
Leanest Possible
Capacity &
Tech Stack Sense and Respond
Quota Forecasting
Management
Business / IT Partnership Shared Insights
Sales Lead Nimble Technology Strategy Feedback Loops
Virtual Selling
Methodology Management
Democratized Technology and Delivery Activated Agility
Channel strategy is the process by which an organization goes to market to sell products or services. This includes Direct Sales, B2B
Channel Strategy commerce, and Partner Relationship Management. It is the final piece of a “go-to-market strategy” of which customers are being
targeted, with which products/services; with what marketing, via what channels.
Sales methodology is the process of establishing a set of best practices to guide how sellers approach each step in the sales motion
Sales Methodology and sales process.
Sales analytics is the process of utilizing insights gathered from data to make the best decision possible and maximize sales team
Sales Analytics performance.
Territory management is the process of creating territories based on multiple factors and allocating resources to territories to maximize
Territory Management sales and profits.
Quota and capacity planning is the ongoing process of aligning a company’s financial objectives with the capability of sales employees
Capacity & Quota to meet those objectives. It comprises capacity planning, quota setting, and quota maintenance phases that form a key part of the
Management company’s annual financial planning cycle, in addition to providing ongoing insights to leaders on sales performance and sales
productivity.
Sales Compensation Sales compensation management is the process of maximizing sales team performance by driving the right behaviors through incentive
Management compensation.
Pipeline strategy and programs is the process by which data is used to analyze pipeline generation, the open pipeline, and pipeline
Pipeline Strategy & Programs conversion, and by which pipeline programs are used to generate pipeline for specific products and services.
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FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITY MAP
Lead management is the process by which leads are created, qualified, routed, worked, and converted to accounts,
Lead Management
contacts, and opportunities.
Opportunity and pipeline management is the process by which opportunities are created, qualified, configured, priced,
Opportunity & Pipeline
quoted, negotiated, and closed, and by which sales coaching is used to effectively move opportunities through the
Management
pipeline.
Sales support is the process of using a variety of functions to support sellers throughout the opportunity management
Sales Support
process.
Forecasting is the internal process by which individuals and teams predict future month/quarter end sales bookings
Forecasting
based on opportunity data and insights.
Sales performance management is the process ensuring that a set of activities and outputs meets an organization's
Sales Performance
Management goals in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization
and its people.
Sales enablement is the process of proactively aligning the sales organization's competencies to meet the customer
Sales Enablement
needs.
Virtual selling is the process of creating a sustainable virtual selling organization that provides solutions and services that align with the
Virtual Selling customer buying journey in a work from anywhere environment.
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Focus on driving Value
The focus should be on DRIVING BUSINESS GOALS and OBJECTIVES, not on enabling individual business capabilities
Understand the right problem to solve in order to Understand the current context and provide a set of Quickly put ideas into actions to experiment, build
co-create a strategy and plan of action. recommendations and a roadmap. new capabilities, and scale value for long term
sustainability. Track and monitor progress at regular
intervals to understand how execution is moving the
needle.
CREATE ALIGN ON BUILD A TEAM ASSESS PROVIDE CREATE BUILD EXECUTE TRACK VALUE
VISION BUSINESS CURRENT FUTURE STRATEGIC BUSINESS ROADMAP
VALUE MAP STATE STATE VISION ROADMAP CASE
Quantitative Scores
Recommendations Alignment
Provide best practice Build consensus on where we are
suggestions, based on today and how we will move forward
assessment findings
● Review experience ● Complete 8-10 ● Share themes, findings ● Share final readout with ● Obtain commitment to
● Create business value interviews and recommendations updated move forward with
recommendations and roadmap
map and determine ● Obtain system demos ● Prioritize
roadmap ● Have customer fill out
in-scope capabilities ● Synthesize findings recommendations ● Provide a set of next satisfaction survey
● Identify stakeholders & ● Co-create roadmap steps
schedule interviews
GATE REQUIREMENTS GATE REQUIREMENTS GATE REQUIREMENTS GATE REQUIREMENTS GATE REQUIREMENTS
Sponsor identified Interviews complete Initial readout complete Final readout complete Recommendations
Value hypothesis created Alignment on action plan accepted
Time Commitment
Role Details on Role
(minimum)
outcomes it wants to
Performing The organization has
achieve, and has the
defined the outcomes
mechanisms in place to
it wants to achieve,
measure progress.
Emerging Desired business and has started to
outcomes have been define the measures
defined, but there are no that will be used to
Minimal Desired business
success metrics nor is track progress.
outcomes have been
there an approach for
Desired business defined at a high level.
tracking progress.
outcomes have not
been defined.
Low
Time
VALUE DELIVERED
SUMMARY
Investment
Top Themes Findings Recommendation Summary
License Other
Our recommendations are directly
aligned to the Sales Excellence Create a consistent account
Framework and the key themes that Account management process that
minimal yes
resulted from the assessment. Management drives a strong engagement
model.
Shared
yes yes
Insights
Culture,
Change, and no yes
Behaviors
VALUE DELIVERED
Detailed Recommendations
SUMMARY
Recommendation Prioritization
SUMMARY
Roadmap
SUMMARY
Visma
Licencing
System
Data Consumption
Driver
High Level Sales Process flow
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Based on Visma BU’s needs there are activated / created following features:
Salesforce Standard Package can help Business Units to better understand Salesforce functionality
and possibilities before they proceed with the further requests for the process automation and
more advanced Salesforce features. SPK consists of the assumed standard (!) functionality that can
be adjusted to Business Unit needs in the next project phases.
Salesforce object is the overall definition of the type of information you are storing. For example, the case object allow you to store information regarding
customer inquiries.
For each object, your organization will have multiple records that store the information about specific instances of that type of data. For example, you might have a
case record to store the information about Joe Smith's training inquiry and another case record to store the information about Mary Johnson's configuration issue.
Salesforce Sales Cloud
With Sales Cloud you always have an information you need to close deals,
collaborate and sell as a team, generate leads, manage contacts, track
opportunities and more.
● Multi-currency (standard)
● Integration to public database (Bizweb, Vainu) for customer creation (custom / app)
Salesforce Service Cloud
Service Cloud allows you to manage various customer support processes
within the same tool where Sales process is managed.
Lead A lead is a sales prospect who has expressed All the prospects that will be coming from Eloqua will be registered as leads and then converted to
interest in your product or company. Account, Contact & Opportunity if applicable. Leads also can be registered manually by Sales reps to
track potential contacts that might be converted to the real accounts.
Account An account is an organization, company, or All customers (companies & organizations) with whom Visma works - either as with buying customers or
consumer that you want to track—for example, a as with prospects. We don`t track partners & competitors as accounts in Salesforce.
customer, partner, or competitor.
Contact Contacts are the individuals associated with your All the contact persons (end-users, decision makers, superusers etc.) who work with the account
accounts. (directly or indirectly) should be registered with this account and assigned specific role they perform for
this account.
Product Items and services that you sell to customers Any article sold by Sales reps. Typically each item in BU or Product specific price list. For example:
product would not be just EasyCruit in general, but each subscription service, package, licence EasyCruit
solution consists of etc.
Opportunity Opportunities track your sales and pending This is the attempt (successful or not) to sell some specific products on some specific prices to the
deals. specific account. Opportunities are used to build the sales pipeline.
Quote A record showing proposed prices for products A proposal of the products+prices for the specific account that is ready to be sent out for the approval.
and services. Quotes can be created from This is a step before the Contract is created to get aligned with the customer of the scope & pricing of
opportunities and emailed as PDFs to the products to be delivered. Quote as an offer is usually issued for some limited amount of time for
customers. customer to make a decision.
Contract A contract is an agreement defining the terms of Contract object in an entry in Salesforce containing the details like start/end date, payment terms,
business between parties. renewal process and some special terms for the Contract document (agreement) to be signed by the
customer.
Salesforce terminology
Term Salesforce Definition Visma Example
Asset A specific model or type of product that a customer owns. Depending on how Products Visma has sold to Customer.
your organization uses assets, they can represent your products that the
customer has purchased and installed or your competitor’s products that the
customer uses.
Case Detailed description of a customer’s feedback, problem, or question. Used to Any requests from customer regarding sold and delivered products. Bugs,
track and solve your customers’ issues. Service Requests, How- to questions etc.
All the tasks, calls & emails registered for the lead, account, contact person,
Activities An event, a task, a call you've logged, or an email you've sent. You can relate opportunity or case - kept in the order to be able to track what
an activity to other records, such as an account, a lead, an opportunity, or a communication with the customer took place from the one-Visma
Salesforce terminology
Term Salesforce Definition Visma Example
Permission A collection of permissions and settings that gives users access to specific Extra permissions comparing to the users from the same profile. For example can
set tools and functions. be used to extend functionality for the superusers.
Roles link any user with the domain user is representing, for example: Sales Rep,
Role Assigned responsibility of a user, partner account, or contact for specific Sales Manager, Service Manager, Service Agent ,System Administrator
accounts and opportunities. Administrators can define user roles in Setup.
Each User can have only 1 Role
Profile Profiles define how users access objects and data, and what they can do Profiles are splitting users by BU and functions / areas of work and license types -
within the application. When you create users, you assign 1 profile to each e.g. Sales user, Service user, Consulting user, Light user etc.
one
Full licence Lightning Enterprise CRM License. Has full CRM access. Can be extended Used for Sales, Consulting. Also typically used by Service Agents if Knowledge is
with Live Agent, Knowledge etc feature licences used and Service Agents work with lot of cases simultaneously and need to use
Console.
Self-Service N/a Visma Enterprise Division`s made Self-Service Portal to ensure ability to
Portal Customers access and create support cases and work with Knowledge from
Salesforce
Visma Salesforce Standard Package
Visma Salesforce Standard Package (SPK) is developed as a “template org”:
- that fits basic CRM use cases for Sales and/or Support processes within Visma and
- that can be fast & easy implemented for the BU’s interested in it
Salesforce Standard Package can help Business Units to better understand Salesforce functionality
and possibilities before they proceed with the further requests for the process automation and
more advanced Salesforce features. SPK consists of the assumed standard (!) functionality that can
be adjusted to Business Unit needs in the next project phases.
Reliability
Innovation
Competence
Team spirit
User Adoption
Sales Cloud
Adoption
● Define adoption.
● The benefits of having high adoption.
● Identify the best time to address your company’s adoption.
Adoption
To understand how to address adoption, you first need to know what it is. At its core,
adoption is about someone using a solution that’s available to them.
Bark Vader is a good pup with a bad back. Bark Vader is missing out on an We have plenty of tips and tricks. And your
The good news is, there’s a special dog opportunity to solve his back woes; if he users will be happier for it—just ask Bark
bed for that. His parents buy him the bed, doesn’t sleep in the bed, his back won’t Vader.
but being the skeptic that he is, Bark get better.
Vader opts to sleep next to the bed.
Adoption
● Enhances productivity
● Strengthens customer relationships with better information about their customers
● Creates mobility: Reps can work from anywhere
● Boosts revenue
● Creates real-time visibility into current and future deals
● Greater transparency
● Provides a 360 view of your customer base
Secure Executive Alignment
Execs should support the new implementation. Their commitment will look different for different
companies, but here are some examples of things to ask your execs.
● Require that sales reps log in to the system a certain number of days per month.
● Participate in launch emails or videos, showing their support and expectation that the reps
will use Salesforce.
● Only use Salesforce for forecasting and pipeline, and require that the entire sales team do
the same thing.
● Enforce a rule that reps can only be paid commission on deals that are entered in Salesforce.