E&M
2022/4
Contents
Dossier. Urban Regeneration
The Virtuous Circle of Sustainability
Dossier. Living
New Social Needs at the Center of Living
Make Way for Proptech as a Lever for Growth
Dossier. Commercial
Great Transformations of the Sales Sector
Offices Are Changing; Investments, Too
Focus. The New Normal in Marketing
When Images Become a Repository of Data for Businesses
Brand Management between Back to the Future and Interstellar
The Key Points of the Digital Transformation of Go-to-market
Visual readings
Sharing economy
Organization and People Management
Ten Areas of Action to Redesign the Sales Function
The Covid-19 era has imposed deep transformations on sales organizations, and above all, required them to answer the question of how to manage the recovery in a new normal . A study by the Commercial Excellence Lab at SDA Bocconi has identified the ten areas of action for sales organizations in the post-pandemic future: process redesign, data-driven approach, new customer segmentations, redefinition of roles and structures, experiential sales, omnichannel development, experimental approach, skills review, incentive systems, and performance evaluation. In reference to the first eight areas of action, the strategic guidelines and managerial practices show a marked convergence between companies in different sectors, and thus represent clear trends for the new normal in sales. Yet businesses still seem to be searching for adequate responses to whether and how to modify incentive systems and processes in the future, along with the methods of assessing vendors’ performance.