Are you a Chief Growth Officer (CGO) - or doing the job of one? Whether you're an enterprise or growth stage B2B organization, you know how hard it is to create a sustainable, repeatable, scalable growth model. Rapidly evolving customer expectations, extended purchase cycles, customer churn, evolving technology, sales and marketing misalignment, data quality issues, lack of visibility into ROI of GTM efforts - the list goes on and on. ANNUITAS' CEO Adam B Needles and Head of Research Martin Schneider recently wrote a book to help individuals and teams navigate the challenges of growth in today's marketplace. The goal of the book is to present a framework to help B2B organizations transform their approach to go-to-market (GTM)—doing so via a Converged Growth lens and embracing the concept of the Chief Growth Officer (CGO) as an organizing principle for focused, orchestrated and customer-centered growth. Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting some of the most important concepts from the book, such as the key elements driving the need to transform your go-to-market, the benefits of having an office of the CGO, and some of the foundational elements of transforming your go-to-market through a Converged Growth lens. Looking to get a copy of the book? Download a digital copy using the link below! #CGO #ChiefGrowthOfficer #growthstrategy #growthstrategies #gotomarket #gotomarketstrategy #gotomarketstrategies
ANNUITAS
Business Consulting and Services
Atlanta, Georgia 3,328 followers
ANNUITAS empowers businesses to drive predictable, sustainable sales growth by transforming go-to-market (GTM) execution
About us
ANNUITAS™ is the leading research and consulting firm specialized in transforming go to market (GTM) execution. ANNUITAS empowers marketing and sales leaders to operationalize go to market programs around customer lifecycles through a Perpetual Growth Engine model — orchestrating customer engagement and delivering lift to pipelines, both pre- and post-sale. • ANNUITAS breaks the cycle of random acts. • ANNUITAS puts the customer lifecycle at the center of go to market programs. We have years of proven results across industries such as; technology, healthcare, life sciences, financial services + insurance, manufacturing, cybersecurity, travel + hospitality, creative services, and media + training.
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http://www.annuitas.com
External link for ANNUITAS
- Industry
- Business Consulting and Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2005
- Specialties
- Marketing Technology Selection & Implementation, Demand Generation Strategy, Change Management, Demand Generation Implementation, Demand Generation Optimization, Go-to-Market Strategy, Customer Journey Orchestration, Customer Experience Transformation, Go-to-Market Transformation, Growth Acceleration, Sales and Marketing ROI, Demand Marketing, B2B, Conversational Sales and Marketing, Demand Process, Pipeline Lift, Perpetual Demand Generation, Go-to-Market Strategy, Converged Growth, Go-to-Market Execution, Customer Engagement, Sales and Marketing Alignment, and Sales Enablement
Locations
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Primary
3280 Peachtree Rd NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30305, US
Employees at ANNUITAS
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Lauren Shleifer Goldstein
Helping Growth Stage SaaS Companies Scale - Growth Executive, Winning by Design || Co-Founder, Women in Revenue || Board Member & Advisor
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Adam B Needles
CEO of ANNUITAS, Inc. - Transforming GTM Execution, Building Perpetual Demand Engines, Optimizing Growth
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Jessica Jones
Chief Growth Officer | Board Member | GTM Advisor | Problem Solver
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Michael Donohue
Driving Brand Growth & Market Innovation | Chief Marketing & Growth Officer | Visionary Leader
Updates
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Many in the go-to-market universe immediately think of the legacy Eloqua product when they think of Oracle's GTM tech portfolio. But the company has made some significant advancements in building out its Fusion Apps platform and capabilities - a lot more than just "slapping GenAI on everything." With such a wide gamut of applications that support a full journey GTM motion - Oracle is reinventing itself in compelling ways right now as a tech partner that can support significant orchestration of engagement across a lot of pre-and-post sale touch points. Our latest research brief comes from some great interviews with Oracle CX leaders and a few days spent at their recent analyst day event in their California HQ. For those still using Eloqua, there is a potentially bright future for your GTM tech stack...if you are an Oracle customer (past or present) we would love to hear your thoughts in the comments! #oracle #saas #ai #crm #cx https://lnkd.in/g4z5-6Hs
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Our head of research Martin Schneider has some thoughts on #SugarCRM's announcement that it has acquired revenue optimization app sales-i.... It's an interesting move as more #CRM providers turn their attention towards "GrowthOps..." What do you make of the combined entities? let us know in the comments. https://lnkd.in/gVn_yX4B
SugarCRM acquiring sales-i feeds a big need around "growth ops." CRM has always had a "growth management" problem. What I mean is that for the past three decades or more, CRM has been focused on pre-sale motions, new logo acquisition processes, and very little time was spent on the actual "relationship" when it came to revenue optimization. Sure, there's lots of great customer support and even now more subscription model support - but actually optimizing the revenue between a company and a customer was scant at best. And in a lot of B2B industries - especially manufacturing and distribution - there is less a focus on new business, and more a focus on optimizing the relationships with customers in a symbiotic way. In short - how can we sell more (and more often) but in a way that benefits the customer rather than us simply "pushing more product down their throats?" CRM historically tracks a lot of things - calls with prospects/customers, meetings held, products offered...which can tell us some valuable things about the demand experience and buying cycles. But CRM has often lacked the deeper ERP and product catalog/CPQ integration that enables sales teams in B2B industries to actually optimize the revenue of every deal. The SFA system was simply more of a "put your info in so I can get my commission" tool for far too long. So, when I saw that my alma mater SugarCRM was buying sales-i, I took notice. SugarCRM has been making more and more of a play in manufacturing, and has had a relationship with sales-i for at least a year - racking up a couple dozen shared customers and linking their go-to-market channel in the process. But this acquisition will surely bring the technologies even more seamlessly together. Sales-i brings to Sugar the ability to both integrate with virtually any ERP system (free of charge!) and thus providing more accurate and deeper insights into products purchased, used, and the payment/billing information needed to create more successful upsell, cross-sell and retention engagements. This is not small potatoes. First, being able to better integrate with nearly any ERP system boosts SugarCRM's general value prop for all of its customers. But the revenue intelligence angle - allowing manufacturers to truly optimize every customer relationship and discover new paths to growth inside the existing customer base, is something on every B2B manufacturers' priority list right now. We are in the age of the retention/growth economy - and the combined Sugar/sales-i technology is built for just that purpose. As with all acquisitions and subsequent integrations...time will tell how well SugarCRM can execute on this combined vision; will it be able to dominate in a manufacturing vertical? The good news is it has already done a lot of the groundwork integrating to two systems over the past year, so they have a good head start. #SugarCRM #CRM #M&A #revops #SaaS #MFR
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“Make sure your strategy is GTM-led - not technology-led.” “Talk to your customers. Figure out who your best customers are, ask them about their pains, how they buy, where they go to learn, what sources they trust to get meaningful answers to business challenges. Then you can scale conversations that result in business outcomes around this customer journey.” “Orchestration across all facets of demand process is key.” Some of the highlights from our closing panel yesterday at ANNUITAS’ #GTM Transformation Summit in #PDX. Special thanks to Lauren Shleifer Goldstein, Michael Keister, Jessica Jones and Martin Schneider for finishing the event strong with our panel on “Debating the Role of the Chief Growth Officer”! #CGO #growthstrategy #gtmstrategy
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“I shine the light in all the corners, and use data for everything.” ANNUITAS’ Chief Growth Officer Jessica Jones speaking with James Casper at our GTM Transformation Summit about the important role leadership plays in driving a data-driven culture within organizations.
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Thanks for having us #PDX - our #GTM Transformation Summit was a huge success. Cheers to strategic growth! 🎉
“From day one, we’ve always believed that demand was strategic - that it is more than just marketing activity or leads for sales. The people who bring us in to work with their organizations are growth leaders who share this belief; who aspire for their go-to-market to rise above random acts; and who ultimately want to build a Perpetual Growth Engine.” - Adam B Needles, The Chief Growth Officer’s Handbook Super excited to be in Portland this morning for ANNUITAS’ GTM Transformation Summit. Let’s do this PDX! #PDX #growthstrategy #gtmstrategy #gotomarketstrategy
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You must align to outcome-oriented GTM KPIs… you must shift to thinking about your touch points as a stock portfolio, optimizing against a mix.” Adam B Needles at our GTM Transformation Summit in PDX on creating a system of KPIs directly related to driving meaningful commercial impact.
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“The core of ANNUITAS GTM Transformation is a common, end-to-end Demand Process - placing customer journey at the center of lead-to-revenue flows and orchestrating content touchpoints, qualification, technology and organization around this journey.” #gtm #gotomarket #gtmstrategy #growthstrategy
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“I needed to build a roadmap to sustained growth” “If you’re really going to transform, you need to be bold and address it head on” CEO Robert Seiler sharing his past experience with ANNUITAS, and what it takes to successfully lead an organization through a GTM Transformation.
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“It’s your responsibility to make GTM something the CFO can get on board with.” Adam B Needles discussing the essential commercial pivots GTM leaders need to make to be successful and drive organizational alignment around GTM execution. Bravo Adam!