Technology

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XaaS Growth Strategies: Maximize Your Potential

The technology industry is highly dynamic and constantly changing. As a result, new sales, service and pricing models must reflect the innovative solutions now offered.

The advent of Technology-as-a-Service has pressured technology companies to continually adjust go-to-market models to stay competitive and maximize profitable growth. Successful companies now use the Land, Adopt, Expand and Renew levers to find the right model for growth and profitability.

But how do you determine the right mix for your company that targets the right audience and aligns with the operational elements of your go-to-market (GTM) model?

Creating the right blend of levers and GTM strategy will drive more profitable growth. However, it has never been more critical to differentiate your company and maintain market position or risk being left behind.

With a consistent stream of challenges being the new norm, it is critical to re-evaluate and adjust your GTM strategies early and often.

Alexander Group helps XaaS companies adapt to new trends and differentiate their business through innovative GTM solutions and strong customer relationships to sustain profitable growth.

How We Help

  • Go-to-market transformations: Between new market valuation metrics, changing customer expectations and new ecosystems and market routes, technology companies prioritize consistently re-evaluating their go-to-market models to keep up with the evolving industry. Assess, develop and implement growth readiness roadmaps by analyzing market opportunities, identifying key growth drivers and prioritizing initiatives that align with your go-to-market strategy. Ensure that you are well-positioned for sustained growth and to drive revenue growth and profitability.
  • Annual planning: GTM planning, when completed in an orderly, comprehensive fashion, is a powerful tool to orient the organization around growth, profitability and other business objectives. The planning process should set objectives that match your company’s growth goals, risk tolerance and desired GTM model. Too often, technology companies don’t start this annual process early enough and lack clarity and consensus around which objectives they are trying to achieve. Even then, aligning all the elements of deployment, territories, quotas and compensation is complex. Alexander Group helps ensure that you’re building, configuring, and executing a successful planning process for profitable revenue growth.
  • Opportunistic go-to-customer improvements: Providing strategic guidance and expertise to improve customer acquisition and retention is crucial to remain profitable in the technology industry. In addition to developing new strategies and implementing new processes and tools to drive revenue growth can include improvements across revenue operations, lead generation, segmentation and targeting, job architecture and productivity. Developing a more effective sales process and creating a customer-centric culture will help your organization drive long-term success.
  • Benchmarking & research: Driving profitable growth and remaining competitive in a rapidly evolving market requires competitive benchmarking and research. This analysis provides valuable insights into the company’s performance, helps identify improvement areas, and provides a framework for setting goals and measuring success. In addition, monitoring and reforming your growth and profitability levers through benchmarking and research will help you find the right GTM strategy to drive revenue growth.

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Upcoming Technology Events

  • Sales Compensation Symposium: San Francisco

    Industry Focus: Technology

    Revolutionize your approach at the #1 event for sales compensation professionals and all executives who care about sales comp.
    Designed specifically for executives in HR, Compensation, Sales and Revenue Operations that want to use sales comp more effectively.

    Industry Focus: Technology

    • Thursday, August 13, 2026 –
      Thursday, August 13, 2026
    • San Francisco
  • Sales Compensation Symposium: Chicago

    Industry Focus: All

    Revolutionize your approach at the #1 event for sales compensation professionals and all executives who care about sales comp.
    Designed specifically for executives in HR, Compensation, Sales and Revenue Operations that want to use sales comp more effectively.

    Industry Focus: All

    • Thursday, August 27, 2026 –
      Thursday, August 27, 2026
    • Chicago
  • Cross-Industry: Intelligent Coverage at Scale

    Virtual Roundtable

    Building 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.  

    • Thursday, September 17, 2026
      1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
    • Virtual
  • Executive Forum

    St. Regis Hotel | Chicago, IL

    Join senior sales, marketing, commercial and operations leaders to share stories of transformation, connect 1:1 virtually and take away actionable ideas.

    • Wednesday, September 30, 2026 –
      Thursday, October 1, 2026
    • St. Regis Hotel | Chicago, IL

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