- To establish which sales channels you are going to be launching your product in to
- Each channel will sell products differently (i.e. potentially different systems)
- Some products are not company-wide and are sold by select channels
- Do I know the channels and which ones I will be launching in to?
- Have I considered the sales tools which will be impacted?
- Have I Is it on the channel’s priority list/MTP?
- Have SLT agreed to this entering their channels?
- Andrew Mair (Mid-Market)
- Bruce Cuthbert (LB)
- Steve Rathborne (Partner)
- Ronnie Barry (Education)
- Mike Sawtell / Shanna Pedersen (SalesLab)
- Caroline Southall (Desk)
- Helen Franks (Retail / RBCs)
- Michelle Bellyou (Emerging Channels)
- Front door can be raised via Enterprise Front Door - Home (bt.com)
- Raise an appropriate request under the ‘Create Idea’ tab, this can either be project or program led, or a work request
- Each require their own individual work request to be raised - this will be raised by proposition, product or project managers
- AIS should be engaged as early as possible once pre-requisites have been fulfilled - minimum 6-8 weeks before launch (complexity-dependent)
- Salespeople are trained, comfortable and motivated to sell the product/proposition to customers
- Salespeople are confident in providing our customers with the best experience possible via the enablement tools, systems and processes used to sell
- Salespeople and sales leaders are confident that reporting supports both the management of the sales trading process and subsequent payment of commissions
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- Sales Tools
- Enablement Assets
- Channel Marketing
- Experience Design
- Reporting
- PayPlan and Commissions
- Readiness Managers – Early strategic project scoping, focusing on SX / XD
- Change Board – Manages governance and Impact Assessments
- Channel Deployment – Gathering Subject Matter Experts from channels, forming Readiness tribe
- Channel Improvement – Measuring post-launch success and cataloguing defects
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