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This excerpt is from the Forbes. To view the whole article click here.  

9 years ago
High Performing Sales Teams 4x More Likely to Use Predictive Analytics

 

These and many other insights are from the 2015 State of Sales Report (free, no opt-in) published this week by Salesforce Research. Interviews were conducted in early 2015, generating 2,372 responses from full-time global sales leaders in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, U.K., France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Vendors who produce research occasionally slant the methodology of their studies for maximum sales impact. Salesforces’ methodology in this study is aimed more at impartiality than self-endorsement. The study’s respondents includes customers, contacts and third-party panelists and provides useful insights on global analytics adoption.

Key take-aways include the following:

  • 57% of high performance sales teams rely on sales analytics, compared to 16% of underperforming counterparts.  A high performing sales organization is on average 3.5X more likely to use analytics daily in their prospecting and selling efforts.

Figure 1 sales effectiveness with analytics

  • Salesforce Research predicts there will be a 58% increase in sales analytics use from 2015 to 2016. 74% of sales leaders are currently using or piloting/planning to use sales analytics in the next 12 – 18 months according to the study. The following graphic profiles sales analytics use:

Figure 2 huge growth expected in analytics use

  • High performance sales organizations are 4x more likely to use predictive analytics. The following graphic illustrates the differences in high- and underperforming sales organizations’ use of analytics, In addition to predictive analytics, offer management and customer insights are relied on up to 4x more by high-performing sales organizations.

high performance analytics

  • Predictive analytics, price rules engine and sales coaching tools are predicted to have the highest growth with B2B sales teams in the next 12 – 18 months.  Customer insights, sales analytics, competitive intelligence, sales collaboration tools and sales coaching tools are projected to be the most adopted in the near term. The following graphic provides a breakout of technologies B2B sales teams are using today and anticipate piloting in the future along with growth rates by technology category.

predictve analytics b2b growth

  • 60% of high-performing sales teams already use or are planning to use a mobile sales app. High performers are 2x as likely as underperformers to use or have plans to use a mobile sales app. Top performing sales teams are nearly 5x more likely to have outstanding or very good capabilities and skill sets in maximizing their use of mobile sales apps and smartphones to dominate sales cycles.

Figure 3 Mobile Sales App

  • Partner/customer or project collaboration (73%), single view of the customer (61%), and analytics and insights (60%) are three of the top ways high-performing sales team connect with customers.  There is a 6x gap between high- and under-performing sales organizations when it compares to partner/customer or prospect collaboration. The following graphic shows the differences in each customer contact area.

collaboration updated cloud pays

  • Sales analytics (79%), competitive intelligence (70%) and sales methodologies (69%) are the three top ways high performance sales teams are using technology today.  High performance sales teams are outpacing underperformers by a wide margin in the areas of sales analytics (57% versus 16%) and sales methodologies (46% versus 8%).  The following graphic compares current and planned technology adoption for eight strategic sales technology areas.

figure 5 high performance tech advantage

This excerpt is from the Forbes. To view the whole article click here.

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