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Developing Better Forecasts
Leading-Edge Strategies and Tactics for Increasing Accuracy and Consistency
Thursday, June 21, 2018
10 AM Pacific / 1 PM Eastern / 7 PM CET
Research has shown, time and again, that human beings are terrible forecasters. We tend to be overly optimistic. We’re heavily biased by the past. And, we’re just not very good at objectively assessing risks and assigning probabilities. So with all that going for us, it’s no surprise that leading sales operations are using data, analytics, and statistics in new and innovative ways to improve the speed, accuracy, and consistency of their sales forecasts.
In this subscriber-only webinar, you will learn about:
- Segmenting, characterizing, and analyzing pipeline opportunities to generate more accurate probabilities and durations.
- Establishing automated monitoring routines for continuous status updates and early warning alerts if things go awry.
- The proper role and utilization of the bottom-up forecasts and pipeline estimates generated by individual salespeople.
- Seeking and using data from further upstream to enhance perspectives on what’s realistic in the weeks and months ahead.
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