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Situation
  • For the past three years, our client had been losing market share position in its’ strongest products
  • Sales rep productivity was the lowest among competitors, and varied significantly by rep
  • Overall industry experiencing flat-to-moderate growth

Parthenon Action

Developed detailed market fact-base:
  • Limited market data necessitated team to perform in-depth analysis to calculate the size of the current and projected market by subject area
  • Determined product-level market share for overall company and for individual sales reps
  • Identified underperforming sales reps, with performance adjusted for territory size and tenure in industry and with company

Created a blueprint for the sales organization:
  • Determined optimal territory size and number of sales reps required to achieve maximum market share
  • Developed market intelligence program to improve lead generation

Result
  • Achieved 20% revenue growth in Year One
  • On track to achieve 5.5 percentage point increase in market share


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