The future of Sales is integrated. scalable. smart. Ideascape.

Sales leaders and their teams want to grow. We’re here to help.

Our Services

Explore the ways we help Sales organizations build capability, impact, and credibility with key stakeholders.

Our Process

See how we design and manage high-performance growth plans with Sales teams through “A Year in the Life with Ideascape.”

Our Clients

Learn more about the Sales leaders who rely on us to fill crucial strategy and capability gaps as a go-to thought partner and "on-demand" research and planning resources.

Our Services

ideascape’s services provide strategic perspectives and practical management support to executives working to amplify DEI organizations’ impact by building new types of value-based relationships within their companies and employing new types of practices. Our approach to this work centers on six challenges at the heart of DEI management:

Promoting clarity, focus, and alignment
Enabling innovation and experimentation
Supporting quality assurance and risk management
Making the most of outside resources
Developing the organization
Ensuring operating leverage and sustainability

Strategic Planning & Performance Management Support

Gain confidence in your overall Sales strategy by working with us to validate goals, link Sales initiatives and programs explicitly to key priorities, identify areas where others must contribute, build-in leveraged support, and measure progress.

On-Demand Issue Briefs

Make better decisions faster and communicate more effectively with key internal and external stakeholders with our timely, quick-hit analysis of critical issues and emerging developments in the dynamic Sales space.

Vendor Pre-Screening and Selection Management

Reduce your vendor selection time and lower the risk of poor fit or underperformance by having us perform the early stages of due diligence, including initial information collection, profiling, and first-pass scoring.

Expert Networks

Exchange strategic perspectives, share management tips, and build new professional relationships with other Sales experts and practitioners through our networking introductions and facilitated meet-ups.

Sales Innovation Idea Flow for Enhanced Performance

Find new opportunities to amplify or accelerate your Sales outcomes by reviewing our summaries of outside-the-box management practices from other progressive companies and screening them for “fit” inside your own organization.

Our Process

Our process is different because our purpose is different. ideascape’s purpose isn’t merely to publish periodic best practice blog posts or research studies (typical of media or information services companies) or to provide point solutions for specific types of problems (common for project-based consultants and tech suppliers). Instead, we work closely with Sales leaders to synchronize service delivery with their teams’ workflows across the year—coordinating our resources to provide just-in-time decision support where and when it matters most. This means we engage with clients in a combination of ways that is both unusual and unusually valuable.

A Year in the Life with Ideascape

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To Start: discovery session & team dashboards/data

We focus on the big picture– company-level goals, Sales organization goals and priorities, timelines for key Sales initiatives, programs and senior management updates, and relationship and team development goals.

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For Projects: kickoff meeting & owner check-ins

We provide external perspectives on important projects, jumpstart conversations about success and risk factors, highlight resource requirements and dependencies, propose ways to measure and communicate about performance.

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Team Diagnostic: understanding the gaps

Evaluate over 20 attributes of a “world class sales organization based on priority and current level of execution to understand performance gaps at the team and individual level.

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For Executive committee Meetings: business case preparation

Ideascape is here to help you advocate for your plans, building compelling business cases that anticipate stakeholder
concerns and withstand scrutiny. Ultimately, we shorten time to approval and time to delivery.

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For Capability-Building: team briefings

We expose Sales teams to senior-level issues relevant to your core strategy and help you put their day-to-day work in a larger, more strategic context.

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For New Ideas: peer benchmarking and expert network conversations

Leverage our ability to facilitate peer benchmarking discussions so that you can better understand what other companies with similar questions and strategic priorities are doing.

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For Budget-Setting Season: performance assessment

When it comes time to evaluate your current approaches and consider changes, we step in to help you frame your decision. Use our thought partnership and team extension capabilities to resolve questions of adequacy and avoid hindsight.

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Our Clients

We work across industries and company size, acting as thought partners and extensions of your team. Membership seats are unlimited and we offer 24/7 access to our support.

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