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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...
Leveraging Kaizen Principles for Incentive Compensation Management
Leveraging Kaizen Principles for Incentive Compensation Management Big Results come from Small Changes Back in the day, I was required to read a book called The Goal for my operations and Supply Chain Management class. Like many of the other books read for this...
How to Incentivise Sales for Financial Services Industry – Part 1
How to Incentivise Sales for Financial Services Industry - Part 1 Introduction The impact of the 2007-2008 financial crash has been both significant and far-reaching. Myriad arrears of the financial services sector have been affected, including products sold,...
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OpenSymmetry enables clients to achieve greater operational efficiency and get better sales results. We are a global consulting company specializing in the planning, implementation, and optimization of industry leading technology suppliers of sales performance management solutions.