Service Leadership
Total Profit Solutions for IT Companies®
Service Leadership Index®
- Product GM% - BIC Profitability SPs: Q1-11 25.5% Q2-11 25.3% Q3-11 26.6% Q4-11 27.2%
- Product GM% - Median Profitability SPs: Q1-11 20.5% Q2-11 20.5% Q3-11 19.2% Q4-11 19.7%
- Product GM% - Bottom 1/4 Profitability SPs: Q1-11 19.9% Q2-11 20.5% Q3-11 18.5% Q4-11 14.8%
- Services GM% - BIC Profitability SPs: Q1-11 53.4% Q2-11 54.9% Q3-11 52.2% Q4-11 52.8%
- Services GM% - Median Profitability SPs: Q1-11 51.0% Q2-11 50.1% Q3-11 48.1% Q4-11 46.4%
- Services GM% - Bottom 1/4 Profitability SPs: Q1-11 36.1% Q2-11 41.0% Q3-11 42.9% Q4-11 38.8%
- SG&A% - BIC Profitability SPs: Q1-11 26.0% Q2-11 26.2% Q3-11 26.1% Q4-11 27.6%
- SG&A% - Median Profitability SPs: Q1-11 32.2% Q2-11 31.9% Q3-11 30.3% Q4-11 29.8%
- SG&A% - Bottom 1/4 Profitability SPs: Q1-11 35.7% Q2-11 34.6% Q3-11 36.9% Q4-11 35.4%
- EBITDA% - BIC Profitability SPs: Q1-11 19.2% Q2-11 19.2% Q3-11 17.8% Q4-11 17.7%
- EBITDA% - Median Profitability SPs: Q1-11 7.3% Q2-11 7.3% Q3-11 6.8% Q4-11 5.9%
- EBITDA% - Bottom 1/4 Profitability SPs: Q1-11 −2.4% Q2-11 −1.1% Q3-11 −2.7% Q4-11 −5.6%
Quarterly Solution Provider Performance
Sales Management Basics Toolkit©
Includes tool(s)
Solution Providers often find getting results from their sales teams to be a frustrating and unpredictable effort. Much of successful selling comes from discipline around basics: proper forecasting, qualifying and sales activity planning. Without these, driving a successful sales funnel is largely a matter of luck. This tool package includes three essential templates for driving a sales force to expected revenue production levels. The Solution Provider Forecasting Tool© enables a sales leader to accurately forecast the revenue coming through the sales funnel and compares forecast and actual to quota or goal for each sales rep. The Solution Provider Sales Activity Planner© enables a sales leader to track the planned and actual level of selling activities per sales rep; if the sales force is hitting its planned level of selling activities it is much more likely to hit its sales goals. Lastly the IT Solution Customer Qualification Tool© enables a salesperson to quickly qualify potential prospects even without becoming an expert in the offering in question. This enables a sales team to get to work bringing in qualified leads much earlier than the traditional "first we teach them about the offering" method of bringing sales teams up to speed on a new offering.