Today's dynamic market environment is forcing businesses of all sizes and types to be able to react quickly and decisively to rapidly changing business and competitive conditions and changing customer demands.

The more agile a company, the faster it can respond to market dynamics and develop new products and processes, recognize new opportunities, and redeploy resources accordingly. The degree of agility may be the difference between being a market leader or being an also-ran.

Agility requires proactive planning, business intelligence, and alignment and collaboration among all the key functions to make the right decisions and turn opportunities into a competitive advantage.

One of the key alignment issues facing many companies is the alignment between marketing and sales.

Marketing and Sales Alignment Remains Elusive

At Red Herring's recent CMO Summit, the results of its CMO survey revealed that marketing and sales alignment is one the study participants' top five strategic issues for 2007: 42% of the respondents gave it a nine or ten as a crucial issue to address.

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