Most companies don't have a sales problem. They have a revenue fragility problem. When growth depends on a few key people, heroic effort, or untested assumptions, the system is one resignation away from collapse. This article explains how to move from commercial craftsmanship to Revenue Architecture — a designed, scalable, predictable engine.
From Trap to Transformation: The 6 Pitfalls Holding CMOs Back — and the 5 Roles You Must Now Master
Discover the six traps sabotaging modern marketing teams—and how the new Centaur CMO mindset, powered by AI and the IMPACT transformation Playbook, offers a real path to faster, scalable growth. A preview of Emmanuel Obadia’s VivaTech 2025 session.
Revolutionizing B2B: How JTBD and Generative AI Unlock Customer Success
Unlock the future of B2B sales and marketing with the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework and Generative AI. This post explores how to decode customer motivations, tackle the Four Forces of Progress, and align messaging for maximum impact. Featuring actionable steps and real-world examples from QuickBooks and Intercom, learn how to transform customer challenges into opportunities and deliver lasting value. Ready to revolutionize your approach?
2024: A Year of Growth, Innovation, and Purpose
2024 was a year of transformative growth and innovation for Emmanuel Obadia & Partners. From leveraging JTBD and OKRs to drive customer-centric strategies and organizational alignment to embracing the power of Generative AI and ABM, this year’s journey has been marked by collaboration, learning, and impactful change. Discover key insights and reflections that shaped our success.
Why Isolated B2B Campaigns Are Obsolete: The Need for Integrated, Customer-Centric Marketing
In the fast-evolving world of B2B marketing, isolated campaigns have become a relic of the past. Buyers today demand seamless, personalized interactions across their journey—expectations that one-off marketing efforts simply can't meet. In this post, I explore why the future of B2B marketing hinges on integrated, customer-centric approaches. We'll discuss the failures of isolated campaigns, the necessity of always-on engagement, and the power of end-to-end strategies that genuinely nurture relationships from awareness to advocacy. Drawing from my experience leading successful campaigns at Oracle, this piece demonstrates how integrated campaigns not only improve metrics but also build meaningful, long-term connections. Dive in to understand why customer-centric marketing is the game changer your strategy needs.
Top 10 SaaS Go-To-Market Mistakes: A Founder’s Guide to Success
A critical mistake founders make is hiring a VP of Sales who cannot independently demo the product from day one - if they need an engineer or solutions architect to run the demo, do not make that hire. Other pitfalls include misaligning marketing hires like bringing on product marketers expecting them to drive demand gen, founders exiting sales prematurely even with an experienced sales leader, slashing marketing budgets to zero which starves the pipeline, ignoring disruptive AI trends that competitors are embracing, prioritizing short-term profitability over maintaining a growth rate above 30%, hiring fractional or bitter talent lacking full commitment, hiring for prestigious logos over true startup skills fit, expecting instant ROI from longer-term marketing efforts like brand building, and turning customer success into an upsell team at the expense of retention and satisfaction
Sales & Marketing Alignment: It takes two to Tango! 3rd Step: How can you thrive on your journey to the promised land?
Sales & Marketing Alignment: How can you thrive on your journey to the promised land? Joint Strategy, OKRs, SLA and Customer 360
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