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May 2026

B2B Sales Excellence Assessment – A Strategic Benchmark for Your Sales Organization

In service- and solution-oriented B2B markets, sales requirements are shifting noticeably: customers expect integrated solutions, margin pressure on traditional offerings is increasing, and new levers for sales performance are emerging across the entire value chain. The decisive question is which of these levers your organization should address – and in what sequence.

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B2B Sales Excellence Assessment – A Strategic Benchmark for Your Sales Organization
B2B Sales Excellence Assessment – A Strategic Benchmark for Your Sales Organization

In service- and solution-oriented B2B markets, sales requirements are shifting noticeably: customers expect integrated solutions, margin pressure on traditional offerings is increasing, and new levers for sales performance are emerging across the entire value chain. The decisive question is which of these levers your organization should address – and in what sequence.
 

The B2B Sales Excellence Assessment provides a robust, data-driven baseline for this discussion. It evaluates the central levers of B2B sales – including Strategy and Segmentation, Offers & Solutions, Customer Experience, Service & Lifecycle, Coverage and Channel Model, Pricing & Deal Governance, Sales Operations & Enablement, KPI Steering, and Data & Tooling Maturity. The results are benchmarked against a peer group from the relevant market environment, surfacing both strengths and priority areas for action.

 

Building on these insights, we translate the results into concrete measures together with you. Fortlane Partners draws on a proprietary database of more than 300 proven sales measures across nine categories. Rather than starting from a blank page, we identify the levers most relevant to your situation, adapt them to your operating reality, and bring them into execution through a structured approach – clearly separating short-term pilotable measures from structural initiatives.

 

Your Benefits:

  • Robust assessment of your sales maturity, benchmarked against industry peers
  • Identification of priority growth and margin levers
  • Direct access to proven measures from the Fortlane database
  • Solid decision-making basis for a structured sales transformation

 

The assessment takes approximately 10–15 minutes to complete.
 

➔ Start the assessment and receive your individual benchmark (Test link: https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/91119135/DRAFT-B2B-Sales-Assessment-Test-VS )

 

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Jens Reska
Jens Reska
Managing Director
Digitalization , Tech and AI, Strategy and Growth, Performance Improvement, Workforce Transformation, Organizational Performance and People, IT Services and Software, Technology, Media, and Telecommunication
Axel Meythaler
Axel Meythaler
Managing Director
Carve-out and PMI, Performance Improvement, Organizational Performance and People, Value Creation and Exit Readiness, Change Management, Tech and AI