By Steve Valenta, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Cien.ai Why Does Activity Capture Matter? The ability to capture how sales professionals allocate their time across sales activities is an incredibly useful and powerful tool. Every individual is different and they each have their own methods for success. For example, some might spend more time building a pipeline, […]

By Rob Käll, CEO & Co-founder Cien.ai The Wisdom of Munger Most business people are familiar with Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway. And many of you may also revere his business partner and sidekick Charlie Munger, who passed away in 2023 at the age of 99 years and 11 months. Munger wrote an excellent book […]

By Joanna Ridgway, SVP Global Sales, Cien.ai What Happens After A PE Deal is Closed? The leadership team at Cien.ai have been buyers, sellers, or sponsors of hundreds of M&A deals. So we know the drill and what can go wrong. The first 100 days post close is often a time of renewed energy. For the buyer it is exciting to have new products and team members, and for the seller it is opportune to be part of something with greater reach. The honeymoon can end quickly. While the Due Diligence process is intended to uncover any issues with the

By Rob Kall, CEO & Co-founder Cien.ai What’s the difference between bad pipeline quality and bad pipeline management? These terms can be confusing, but our definition is that the quality of the pipeline is measured when an opportunity is created. If it is very unlikely to be won, then it is of low quality. Pipeline management is something you measure while working on the deals. A pipeline with a lot of “zombie deals” is poorly managed. I.e., deals that clearly will not be won but remain in the pipeline creating the appearance of progress while wasting rep resources.  How do

By Rob Kall, CEO & Co-founder Cien.ai Is Everyone Getting Hacked Today? Watching the news, it is easy to think so. New incidences are announced weekly, including in the last few weeks where a data platform such as Snowflake exposed client data for millions of AT&T customers and other companies. At the same time, there […]

By Rob Kall, CEO & Co-founder Cien.ai Does alignment matter? There is a lot of talk about finding corporate alignment, but what does it even mean? That everyone get along at all times? That there are no differences of opinion? Not at all – all organizations are made up of individuals and those are unrealistic (and often undesirable) objectives. The most common problems between sales and marketing are usually something like this: 1. Marketing has a lead quota. This quota keeps increasing and Marketing is forced to tap into new channels to meet their numbers2. Reps receive these leads and

By Rob Kall, CEO & Co-founder Cien.ai Do you have a rep performance management problem? It’s naïve to think that you can get a sales team of all A-players, so how do you know if your team has adequate performance? Start by segmenting your team into overperformers (your true A-players), performers, and underperformers based on […]

May 16, 2024, 07:00 ET https://www.prweb.com/releases/cienai-expands-dallas-team-launches-new-ai-proof-of-value-program-302146789.html Cien.ai, a leading AI analytics firm founded in 2016, has strengthened its DFW leadership by appointing Joanna Ridgway as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Steve Valenta as Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. Ridgway brings a wealth of experience from the financial sector and will focus on expanding global sales and […]

Whether you’re a numbers person or not, advances in technology and data management are continuously creating new opportunities for transforming and improving an organization’s sales effectiveness. To understand how sales managers can improve their teams’ sales performance, we spoke with Mike Kunkle, founder of Transforming Sales Results, LLC and Vice President of Sales Enablement Services for the […]

Cien’s Co-founder and CEO Rob Käll recently joined AI for sales expert Chad Burmeister on the The AI for Sales Podcast.With 76 episodes and counting, this episode of “The AI for Sales Podcast” podcast includes an in-depth conversations between the two experts on leveraging Artificial Intelligence for improving Sales Performance.Tune in to the full episode to hear what Rob has to say about AI for Deal Intelligence, Value Intelligence, and Coaching.Highlights from the podcast:Rob and Chad discuss what is Deal Intelligence for sales and why sales teams across industries should leverage this type of a technology.Further, they talk about what

[ 2 -3 min read ] Dallas, TX, March 25th, 2021 – AI-for-sales company Cien.ai expands its advisory board and introduces a new API to fix dirty CRM data. Cien Inc., a fast-growing provider of AI-driven sales performance solutions, today announced the addition of Jim McGuire to its board of advisors. Mr. McGuire is a […]

[ 2 -3 min read ] Dallas, TX, December 15th, 2020 – AI-for-sales company Cien.ai expands its advisory board, and introduces new AI-Driven Assessment for B2B sales teams.   Cien Inc., a fast-growing provider of AI-driven sales performance solutions, today announced the addition of Kelly Breslin Wright to its board of advisors. AI-for-sales company Cien.ai […]