One model for building a sales organisation that holds. An honest assessment at the centre. Six areas that have to work together. Three ways we deliver. AI built in, not bolted on.
Most sales transformation is really just a technology project. Buy a CRM, standardise the process, roll out a method, call it done. The results speak for themselves: only 11% of sales organisations come out stronger, around 30% improve and hold the gain, and 88% fall short of what they set out to do.
The reason is always the same. They fix the wrong thing. Real change means fixing how you sell, how you are led, how your people are supported, and how the business runs, together, and without dropping this quarter’s numbers.
The COMPOSE Sales Model® is our answer. Six areas that work as one system. Pull one out, and the whole thing wobbles.
Low adoption, isolated impact
Systemic, sustainable performance
Where you stand, looked at honestly.
The six things every strong sales organisation gets right.
How we deliver the change.
Everything starts with the Diagnostic™. It looks at your sales organisation across all six areas and shows you what to fix first. Built and proven over two decades, across telecoms, technology, software, media, and manufacturing. It is your starting point: clear, honest, and ready for the board.
The six things every strong sales organisation gets right.
The mood and mindset of your sales floor. Get this wrong and nothing else holds.
How you are set up to sell: regions, segments, roles, and rhythm. It decides who can win before anyone picks up the phone.
Getting your reps and managers ready to win, and keeping the pipeline full. Where strategy becomes what people actually do.
The engine room: process, tools, data, and pay. It turns strategy into repeatable selling and gives you numbers you can trust.
Where you play and how you win. Market, segments, coverage, and the plan to turn it into revenue.
Getting it right for the customer, the partner, and the seller at the same time. Most programmes fix one and break the other two.
Each one focuses on a different part of the sales organisation.
Anchored against Strategy + Operating Model
The plan for where you play, how you cover the market, and how you are set up to sell.
Anchored against People
Getting sellers ready to win, and keeping new work coming in.
Anchored against Operations
Clean process, connected tools, and a weekly rhythm you can trust.
AI is not a seventh area. It runs through the whole model. Smarter targeting in strategy, better coverage in the operating model, faster ramp and coaching for people, sharper forecasting and less admin in operations. But AI only works on clean data, and that foundation lives in RISE. Get the data right first, or you just scale the mess.
Underpinning all of it is the data model and architecture inside RISE. Bain’s research is consistent on this: AI value capture depends on data foundations. Without them, AI accelerates inefficiency rather than removing it.
AI has made analysis fast and close to free. What it has not made easier is sequencing: which constraint to remove first, what that unlocks, and how much change an organisation can absorb in a quarter. By combining sales domain expertise, AI applied to the client’s own situation, and practitioners who have owned the outcome, we get to the order of work quickly and then deliver against it.
Managing Partner
Four steps, led personally from inside your team.
Understand
We find out where you stand across all six areas, and what to fix first.
Design
We build the fix, shaped to your business, not a template.
Do the work
We lead it with your team, hands-on. We build it and run the function through the change. No throwing decks over the fence.
Hand over
We hand it over clean and step out. Your team owns it from here.
Worth a conversation first. How we approach this, where we would start, and whether it fits what you need. Nothing more than that.
A practitioner-led sales transformation practice anchored on the COMPOSE Sales Model®.
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