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Best Practices in Forecasting and Pipeline Management

Overview Watch this educational Web seminar replay to learn how to: Increase organizational pipeline visibility to enable all employees to proactively manage their business area; Improve forecast accuracy to help managers make better sales, budgeting, product, and operation decisions; Improve sales productivity by identifying opportunities and allocating sales resources appropriate to accelerate the sales cycle and improve response time to new opportunities; Attendees will also learn how to grow revenues quickly, predictably, and profitably and enable their sales organization to exceed its objectives. Based on lessons learned from more than 3,000 customer implementations, this seminar will present five best practices that can turn pipeline management and forecasting into a key competitive advantage and reduce end-of-quarter surprises.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Siebel
Live Date	17th May 2004 04:47 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Sales - Marketing

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