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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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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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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OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2019

Over this time, our headcount has grown by over 10x, and our revenue has grown by over 60x. North Star metric. Early on, we decided that our department’s North Star metric would be net retention. Besides our common North Star metric, each team in Customer Success has its own set of leading metrics that it focuses on improving.

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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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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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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

This refers to the improvement of your main output metrics. If your mission is to reduce CO2 emissions, you can (potentially should) make this your main output metric. This process requires a lot of assumptions and is not hard science but the key is to focus on growth of your main output metrics. An organizational task.

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