BetterCloud

MAY 13, 2025

The traditional response advocating for increased headcount while sometimes necessary, is often met with budgetary constraints and a desire for greater operational efficiency. So, how do we reconcile this growing disparity? The answer lies squarely in a strategic and comprehensive embrace of automation.

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2024

The two of them together own their metrics, and on free, it’s 100% MAU. A piece of tactical advice from Adam is to have fewer metrics, not more. The first thing Adam did when he showed up was remove 80% of the metrics. His focus is not on operational efficiency but on operational proficiency. It doesn’t.

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BetterCloud

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This post is an excerpt from our guide: “ 10x Your IT Operational Efficiency: A CIO’s Guide to IT Automation.”. While spending may be projected to increase, no one is immune from the ongoing mandate of operational efficiency. Lately, it seems like the only constant for IT is change. Download the Guide.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Getting it wrong impacts your Net Revenue Retention (NRR) performance, customer experience, and operational efficiency. The Shortcomings of Revenue-Based Ratios Sizing CSM-to-account ratios based on revenue metrics is an exclusively inward-looking perspective.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2023

Many of them said headcount management and spend were common levers they pulled, given the immediate and significant impact they have on spend. What are companies doing today to scale efficiently? However, there is a significant pivot to efficient growth with a projected improvement in margins.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In the many years I’ve worked with SaaS companies, I continue to observe a surprising lack of standardization of SaaS metrics and performance reporting. My experience reinforces the fact that SaaS business model variants and approaches to measuring performance via metrics are still very much undefined. The Value of Benchmarking.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

Traditional Sales Organizations – Growth of headcount in sales was structured around revenue per individual contributor (IC). A few metrics to keep in mind for most B2B Sales organizations: It takes three months to ramp a POD to 100%. PODs should operate between 80-120% of quota. This messes up the balance.

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