{"id":6547,"date":"2023-09-16T08:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T08:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2023-10-16T04:31:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:31:28","slug":"salesforce-business-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/salesforce-business-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce Business Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Salesforce Business Strategy<\/h1>\n<p>Salesforce is hiring 3300 people across the departments. In January, it cut 10% of its workforce, i.e. 8000 people.\u00a0 At the company\u2019s annual conference on 9\/14\/23, CEO Marc Benioff shared in an interview with Bloomberg, \u201cOur job is to grow the company and to continue to achieve great margins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We may see the trend of hiring when tech companies realize that they need resources to achieve great margins after cutting too much earlier. How much does it take to hire, train, and ramp up an employee? Was cutting a strategic move?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s consider a definition of strategy with Salesforce.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy is an organization\u2019s unique way of sustainable value creation ~ per Jeroen Kraaijenbrink, in the Certified Strategy and Implementation Consultant program.<\/p>\n<p>Using Salesforce as an example<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Value creation &#8211; CRM (Customer Relationship Management) with extensive out-of-box functionality and customized capability<\/li>\n<li>Uniqueness &#8211;\u00a0 the first cloud-based CRM<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable &#8211;\u00a0 integrate AI with Data Cloud Products to help customers organize information from multiple sources and to make it difficult to copy<\/li>\n<li>Way &#8211;\u00a0 Leadership vision to continue enhancing the platform and its eco-system with the tech trend, maybe including rehiring the laid-off employees to speed up the training time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce Business Strategy Salesforce is hiring 3300 people across the departments. In January, it cut 10% of its workforce, i.e. 8000 people.\u00a0 At the company\u2019s annual conference on 9\/14\/23, CEO Marc Benioff shared in an interview with Bloomberg, \u201cOur job is to grow the company and to continue to achieve great margins.\u201d We may see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,273],"tags":[440,265,519,73,518,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions\/6548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}