Go-to-Market Imperatives to Drive Growth and Success
Don’t Sell Data, Sell Insights
Companies seek to drive growth and performance. Because of the data required to make today’s decisions, they turn to analytics and business intelligence to find new insights into customer demands and changing market forces.
Business intelligence is the collection, analysis and visualization of complex data sets, allowing leaders to quickly grasp insights and leverage data for decision-making across Marketing, Sales, Revenue Operations and related functions.
Data management solutions improve accuracy, are easy to use and are available on multiple devices, making information more accessible to many users. Companies use data sets to create use cases that demonstrate the value of product offerings and services and also contribute to a larger data management strategy that can be offered to customers.
Alexander Groups helps companies implement and leverage analytics, business intelligence and supporting technology to support growth strategies for leading companies.
How We Help
- Determine the strategic, structural and management levers that are critical to drive profitable revenue growth: Upgrade your offerings around use cases to better understand your customers’ needs and challenges and provide a better customer experience. Identify the most critical use cases for customers and develop offerings around them to increase customer loyalty and retention, as well as attract new customers looking for data and content solutions that specifically address their needs.
- Prioritize customers in each segment to identify the highest potential new and expansion revenue: Execute an omnichannel strategy across all touchpoints and provide a seamless and consistent customer experience. Prioritize customers in each segment by understanding their behaviors and preferences, and use technology to enable a personalized experience across all channels.
- Establish the optimal organizational structure across segments, including complex teams: Invest in skills, processes and talent to establish an optimal organizational structure across different customer segments, especially when dealing with complex teams. By continuously upgrading skill sets, processes and talent, businesses can build a culture of continuous improvement and remain competitive.
- Define the roles, tools and enablement that are needed to drive a digital channel: Prioritize recurring revenue streams to create stable and predictable revenue streams. Build long-term relationships with customers to improve customer retention and increase customer lifetime value. Understanding your recurring revenue streams and the resources needed to maintain them improves your competitive standing.
- Ensure sales compensation plans are aligned with sales strategy and incentive design best practices: Analyze the organization’s sales strategy, develop a compensation plan that aligns with the organization’s goals, and design effective incentives to motivate and reward sales teams.
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Briefing Offers- Key Talent Management Strategies to Increase Productivity and Efficiency Business services organizations that generate strong profitable growth have more productive and efficient commercial teams by outperforming competitors in key talent management areas. These best-in-class business services companies have 23% more sellers achieving quota and an 18% higher net revenue retention. Discover the five principles these firms have implemented to enhance their talent management strategies.
- Marketing Insights Study Over 150 marketing executives were interviewed to determine the marketing initiatives being prioritized to maximize customer lifetime value. From marketing roles and resource allocation to marketing mix, channels and spend, get the latest insights on where marketing leaders are investing to advance their organization’s marketing maturity.
- Shifting Demand Generation Investments for Top Performance With macroeconomic factors and profitability pressure on the rise, firms today face the dilemma of allocating limited resources between different channels and initiatives. Determining the most effective and efficient investment strategy requires careful analysis and understanding of target markets, customer preferences and staying ahead of the curve with industry best practices.
- Steps to Elevate Customer Experience Business services firms that have implemented successful customer experience (CX) strategies are 36% more effective at retaining customers. Generated from interviews with commercial leaders, this research study provides the best practices for developing a CX program that impacts all interactions―from the initial encounter to long after the purchase.
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Cross-Industry: Intelligent Coverage at Scale
Virtual RoundtableBuilding the Revenue-Ready Marketing Organization for Business and Financial Services, Media and Tech
Business and financial services, media and technology organizations sit at the sharp end of the revenue-marketing reckoning. As the largest cohort in Alexander Group’s new Revenue-Ready Marketing Organization research, these sectors face the most unforgiving acquisition math:
- Expansion revenue costs $0.20–$0.69 per $1 of ACV versus $1.50–$3.00 for a new logo, yet most teams still send under 15% of budget to existing customers.
- Blended sales-and-marketing CAC has hit ~$2.00 for every $1.00 of new ARR, up 40–60% since 2023, while payback periods stretch toward 20 months.
- AI is moving from a cost center to a revenue engine: Data-science-enabled programs nearly double average bookings ($218K → $416K) and cut S&M OpEx ~20%. The gap is discipline—40% still lack formal AI governance.
To help senior commercial leaders respond, Alexander Group’s Marketing Services practice is hosting a peer-level discussion on how leading organizations are consolidating AI-native marketing operations, mastering CAC and rebuilding the marketing P&L around the highest-efficiency pipeline in the building: expansion.
This session will cover:
- AI-native stack consolidation: Agentic workflows and the new talent model (e.g., the GTM engineer) reshaping software and semiconductor marketing operations.
- Intelligent coverage at scale: AI-driven lead scoring and compliance automation in concentrated FS and professional-services customer bases; agentic AI use has nearly doubled to ~40%.
- GenAI creative and yield in media: Creative production at scale, audience targeting and programmatic yield optimization across AdTech, agencies and retail media.
- CAC mastery and the new marketing P&L: Blended CAC attribution, channel-level ROI, and the shift from lead volume to bookings impact.
- The expansion-first model: Why the $0.20–$0.69 install-base pipeline beats new-logo spend, and how to reallocate budget to capture it.
Attendees will walk away with:
- An AI-native operating model—stack consolidation, agentic workflows and the emerging talent roles that scale coverage.
- A CAC-mastery framework: blended acquisition math, channel ROI and a marketing P&L your CFO will respect.
- The expansion-economics case for reallocating budget to the highest-efficiency pipeline in the building.
- Cross-sector benchmarks on attribution confidence, GTM motion mix (SLG/PLG/partner) and ROMI performance.
- Priority access to the Tech/Media and B&FS sector briefings and the Revenue-Ready self-diagnostic.
Who Should Attend
CMOs, CROs, CCOs and SVPs/VPs of Marketing and Sales at software, semiconductor, IT-services, hardware, AdTech, media, agency, retail-media, banking, insurance, FinTech, professional-services and human-capital organizations.
Attendance is limited and curated to protect candor; sessions are not recorded for distribution.
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Executive Forum
St. Regis Hotel | Chicago, ILJoin senior sales, marketing, commercial and operations leaders to share stories of transformation, connect 1:1 virtually and take away actionable ideas.
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St. Regis Hotel | Chicago, IL
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