Proposal and Business Strategy Implementation for Revenue Growth

Strategy Implementation Overview

ClientView’s paradigm of focusing on revenue produces strategies intended to align all business or operational functions with the objective of achieving consistent, long-term revenue growth. We recognize that there are many other aspects of creating a successful business and that, in some situations, revenue growth is not a paramount issue and other approaches to strategy are appropriate. However, revenue growth can be a wonderful cure for a myriad of problems including equity value, morale, staff retention, client relations, and career advancement.

Strategic Positioning and Capture Planning

Strategic Positioning and Capture Planning consists of organizing and managing Sales Opportunities and Sales Calls; Preparing White Papers and developing and executing Capture Plans. Your clients rarely buy your existing solution; they buy solutions that they feel meet their requirements. We work with your organization to position your sales teams for high value opportunities and more importantly, prepare your team to approach sales calls as client focused events designed around active listening as opposed to high pressure sessions pushing your existing solutions. Properly focused, your sales force will be more effective when focused on providing what the client needs versus what your firm sells. We provide coaching, planning, training and work with your firm to design client focused sales materials.

One effective tool for furthering sales opportunities is the preparation and submission of targeted White Papers. Properly utilized, White Papers can demonstrate your firm’s understanding of your prospective client’s challenges, display your technical acumen in the field of interest, and offer objectively prepared solution approaches to solving these challenges. We help describe how to prepare effective White Papers as well as help you prepare, review and revise them prior to submission.

The final stage of the sales process is Capture Planning. Capture Planning is the process whereby your firm assesses how well it is positioned to successfully compete and win the opportunity. Components such as evaluating your knowledge of the opportunity, assembling a winning team, anticipating the program’s requirements, understanding your competition and how you’ll be viewed compared to them, assessing potential risks, developing your discriminators and assembling an action plan to win are all elements of a good capture plan. ClientView offers targeted training and provides hands-on implementation services to help your firm position to win.


Proposal Management for Revenue Growth

ClientView provides Proposal Creation and Production services tailored to fit your firm’s needs. The responsibilities assigned to ClientView usually vary for each client and for each proposal. The task list to the right itemizes the responsibilities that may be assigned to ClientView’s Proposal Managers, Writers and Graphic Artists.


 


PROPOSAL MANAGEMENT

ClientView's proposal management responsibilities may Include all or some of the following, tailored as your firm desires:

TRANSITION MANAGEMENT from POSITIONING to PROPOSING

• Differentiators Refinement
• Win Strategy Refinement
• Loss Pre-emption Workshop
• Subcontractor Proposal Participation Management
• Proposal Kick-Off Meeting Facilitation

PROPOSAL MANAGEMENT

• Proposal Creation
• Production Management Plan
• Proposal Outline Development
• Story Line & Win Theme
• Content Creation
• Compliance

PROPOSAL REVIEW
• Pink Team Edition Writing
• Pink Team Review Management
• Pink Team Findings Resolution
• Red Team Edition Writing
• Red Team Review Management
• Red Team Findings Resolution
• Black Hat Proposal
• Final Edition Writing
• Final Edit
• Proposal Printing, Packaging and Delivery

 



 

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