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Sales & Marketing Alignment Benchmarks, Insights & Advice

It seems intuitive that aligning the sales and marketing functions in an organization makes good business sense. The assumption about well-aligned sales and marketing teams is that better alignment should produce better performance in terms of sales achievement. The goal of this study was to explore how the degree of alignment as measured across two dimensions – organizational structure and use of enabling technology – impacts revenue achievement. Alignment exists along a continuum, ranging from none to complete alignment. Since “alignment” has di"erent interpretations, this study chose to focus on shared goals as the indicator of alignment: if the sales and marketing functions within an organization reported strong or complete harmony with respect to goals, a high degree of alignment existed. This level of alignment around goals implies that communication, understanding and mutual acceptance of goals exists, and quite probably that these goals were developed collaboratively.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment Benchmarks, Insights & Advice