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Finance Exclusive: Businesses must leverage technology to adapt and grow more aggressively
Where should Sales Compensation sit on the Finance agenda and why is it important as a strategic tool? To view the on-demand webinar, click here. Blog post by: Anthony Hutchins, CEO, OpenSymmetry Whilst I think we can all agree that Sales Compensation is important...
A Forthcoming Shift of Pharmaceutical Sales Compensation Plans?
A Forthcoming Shift of Pharmaceutical Sales Compensation Plans? Sales in the pharmaceutical industry has been a rigid and consistent business. Tactics may have changed, but for the most part these sales teams still run on a commission or quota based metric...
Key Indicators of Future Sales Performance
Key Indicators of Future Sales Performance Each market sector has unique growth challenges – high competition, increasing regulation, and changing buying patterns from savvy customers. With that in mind, how do you ensure that your sales strategy is not an empty...
What is Shadow Accounting?
What is Shadow Accounting? Shadow Accounting is the practice of calculating incentive payout by individual payees apart from official accounting records, for the purpose of detecting errors. This is usually a feature of manual payout calculation processes because...
SPM Transforms the Career Path from Admin to Analyst
SPM Transforms the Career Path from Admin to Analyst In this six-part blog series OpenSymmetry and IBM outline the impact of Sales Performance Management Technology on each area of the business including Sales, HR, Finance and Executive Management. In this fourth...
Sales Performance Management Case Study: Insurance Sector
Sales Performance Management Case Study: Insurance Sector The Challenge The Co-operators, a leading insurance company based out of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, were using a legacy on-premise, custom built Sales Performance Management (SPM) system that no longer fit...
Why Automate Sales Compensation Management
Why Automate Sales Compensation Management On November 19th, 30 organisations gathered in London at the e-reward conference to discuss the benefits of compensation management software. OpenSymmetry’s (OS) focus was Sales Performance Management (SPM) software – how...
Sunrun’s Smarter Incentive Compensation Process for Undistracted Selling
Sunrun’s Smarter Incentive Compensation Process for Undistracted Selling Sunrun, the nation’s leading home solar, battery storage and energy services company, had an incentive compensation management (ICM) system for processing the commissions of over 800 payees....
SPM Training: From E-learning Classrooms to Mentorship and Everything In Between
SPM Training: From E-learning Classrooms to Mentorship and Everything In Between Companies often spend a lot of time and money selecting and implementing Sales Performance Management (SPM) systems but find that they don’t have everything needed to administer and...
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