Jim has over 29 years of sales and marketing management experience and began his career with IBM and Sterling Software and then went on to launch two successful software companies. He is a contributing editor for CRM Magazine, CRM Guru, SoftwareMag.com, and Harvard Business Review and is the author of The Chief Sales Officers Guide to CRM, Insights into High Tech Sales and Marketing, and the co-author of The Sales & Marketing Excellence Challenge and The Information Technology Challenge.
Over the past 12 years, CSO Insight's survey of over 7,000 sales excellence initiatives worldwide has become the benchmark for tracking the evolution of how the role of sales is changing, the challenges that are impacting sales performance, and most importantly how companies are leveraging people, process, technology and knowledge to address those issues.
Are your sales pipeline management and forecasting processes up to the task?
If you're at risk of missing your 2010 numbers, you won't want to miss this game-changing webcast featuring Jim Dickie, Managing Partner at CSO Insights. Jim highlights the results of CSO Insights' all-new Sales Management Optimization Survey and how leading organizations are improving forecasts and revenue predictability to combat a 16-year low in win rates.
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Don't miss this information-packed presentation - making your number may depend on it!
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