Top predictions for the evolution of marketing and sales alignment in the next year:
- Marketing and sales operations merge into one revenue operations team
- Insights into the B2B customer will become clearer by focusing on data integrity (data hygiene, cleanliness, robustness)
- Sales Development will take on a more strategic role as the hub for revenue teams
and the top challenges to aligning marketing and sales:
- Lack of accurate / complete data on target accounts and prospects
- Communication
- Processes are broken/flawed