Tony M Matos

The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept Tony M Matos

SETTING A STANDARD: The Essential Guide to Navigating Your Proof of Concept is your guide to understanding how to execute a world-class PoC. This book was released to document the essential best practices for managing a world-class Proof of Concept. By this, we mean we want to set a high standard for qualifying, defining, executing and closing a Proof of Concept.

ELEVATING OUR GAME: The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept promotes methodologies to counter and replace the often haphazard approach used to manage a proof of concept. This book outlines practical and applicable ways to ensure that your proof of concept is "world-class".

The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept promotes a methodology and a new approach to increase your technical win-rate. Sales teams should leverage a Proof of Concept as a strategic sales tool to win business - but that is not always the case. To improve how your sales team leverages a Proof of Concept, learn and apply the book's principles.

The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept proposes that a Proof of Concept execute at a "world-class" standard by equipping sales engineers on the best practices that elevate their approach, technique and processes when managing a Proof of Concept.

This book was written for sales engineers by a sales engineer with real-world experience working in leading enterprise-scale organizations. The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept promotes a clear and understandable approach for managed a Proof of Concept using a four-step methodology. Along with purpose-built tools and templates, it enables a sales engineer to qualify, define, execute, and close a Proof of Concept.

TAKING A WORLD-CLASS APPROACH: The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept provides a sales engineer with an approach to establishing and maintaining a high standard for executing a proof of concept.

THE REASON FOR EXECUTING A POC IS TO GET THE WIN: For a sales engineer, it is critical to acquire the technical win from a proof of concept. Earning a technical win means that a customer has reviewed your solution and selected it over others. This means that as a sales engineer, you have won the opportunity from a technical perspective. But that doesn't mean it leads to an actual purchase order. Executing a world-class proof of concept also means that you set up the outcome of a PoC to also earn the business win (purchase order).

A FRAMEWORK AND TOOLS TO GET THE JOB DONE: The Essential Guide to Navigating Your Proof of Concept is written to inform and guide sales engineers through the planning and process of high-quality proof of concept customer-centric experience.