Ray Grady is the former President & CEO of Conexiom, advisor, investor and executive with more than two decades’ experience in the tech space. He joined host Ryan Sorley to talk about how businesses should leverage win-loss insights and what the future of AI will bring
Ray Grady’s never made a habit of taking on Google or Microsoft head-on. Their pockets are too deep, their R&D too powerful.
Now entering the age of AI, Ray isn’t about to change his approach anytime soon.
The opportunity for smaller player lies in their unique, specific (even niche) datasets. Ones that can produce a differentiated output as opposed to the endlessly derivative outputs of the big players.
Add an application layer on top of those datasets and you might have an AI winner.
You should ask Account Executives and Sales Engineers for their input on why a deal was won or lost. But you need to take their responses with a pound of salt.
But when you get a third-party firm to come in and conduct win-loss interviews — removing the emotion and personal interest — you’ll get actionable data to help you win more deals.
And if you’re like Ray, you’ll turn that data into insights and apply it “across every function of my business”.
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Win-loss data gives you highly reliable, directionally accurate information. But that doesn’t mean you need to immediately react to the findings.
Ray’s advice to execs is to sit still and digest the win-loss data. Take away the personal interest and emotion and absorb the common trends from the data.
From there, home in on a specific customer segment and apply the learnings.
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