Sageable Services

As your trusted advisor, Sageable provides a range of business technology advisory services to help business leaders drive digital transformation within an enterprise or software leaders deliver technology innovation to their enterprise customers.

Some of the Sageable Trusted Advisor services that will help you survive and thrive include:

+ Strategic ‘Trusted Advisor’

Whether you are ‘selling’ your technology vision to customers, partners, your manager, your CEO, or your Board, a trusted advisor from Sageable will partner with you to build the critical insight and understanding necessary to ensure your vision lands with stakeholders and delivers business results – from ad hoc research-based advice for your next Strategy Planning or Board Meeting, to building and running ongoing programs like your Customer Advisory Board or Executive Briefing Center.

+ Independent Analysis

Most big analyst firms are irretrievably conflicted, only covering the vendors that pay them, ‘tweaking’ reports to help their biggest customers, playing multiple clients off against each other. By contrast, Sageable covers a range of markets independently, regardless of client subscribers. We will happily take your call, even without a subscriber contract! Don’t throw money away on the ‘analyst tax’ – or at least make sure to ‘trust but verify’ your existing analysts. Get an independent second opinion from Sageable – a truly independent analyst who works for you!

+ Customer Engagement

Sageable can provide a uniquely engaging, authoritative, and entertaining technology leader to engage customers and prospects at your next event – from an intimate prospect dinner or ‘birds of a feather’ roundtable, to a formal Account Based Marketing event or Lead Generation webinar. Sageable has engaging hosts with unique research, compelling insights, and deep expertise communicating with (and selling to!) customers, from individual contributors to senior executives, to help you to engage, educate, and excite your customers, partners, and prospects.

+ Public Speaking

Sageable trusted advisors are in-demand as public speakers, with experience delivering highly-rated keynotes, breakouts, and seminars at live, virtual, hybrid, and recorded events including at WebSummit, Collision, Gartner Symposium, DevOps Summit, Cloud Computing Expo, IDC Directions, DevOps Days, CA World, Splunk.conf, AWS: re:Invent, VMworld, and many more. With proven results at events ranging from technical meetups to live keynotes for 15,000 or more attendees, an expert guest speaker from Sageable will help you deliver your business goals.

+ Revenue Acceleration

Sageable advisors have enabled individual sellers and leaders – from pre-sales engineers to CROs – to retire $billions in quota across the world. Working with your leaders, Sageable will transfer actionable knowledge on market dynamics, key technologies, sales strategies, effective prospecting, funnel progression, objection handling, CxO priorities, technical selling, partner co-selling, competitive SWOT, RFx response, from recorded coursework for onboarding to live at your Sales/Pre-Sales off-site or Technical/Sales Kick-Off (TKO/SKO).

+ Strategic Planning

Sageable advisors have decades of experience building and executing strategic plans with CxOs at the world’s most successful businesses. Whether an ad hoc seminar, multi-day workshop, or ongoing review, Sageable will help you with market analysis, segmentation, company and product vision, competitive insight, team structures, brainstorming and ideation, technology enablement, go-to-market models, and more, as a first-class technology business partner for you and your senior leaders.

+ Innovation Planning

Sageable advisors are proven innovation drivers with measurable success building and executing market-making and revenue-generating innovation programs. From ad hoc advisory sessions on new technologies to building and running a full end-to-end Innovation Program, an experienced Sageable advisor will help you with planning, market review, brainstorming, ideation, hackathons, gating reviews, partner engagement, new product introduction, customer feedback, patent applications, and more

+ Remote/Hybrid Teaming

As post-COVID expectations clash with a perpetual ‘skills gap’, an experienced Sageable advisor will help you research, plan, establish, and lead a flexible, high-performing team that adapts to this ‘new normal’. From hybrid remote, to full-time work-from-home, or even ‘work-from-wherever-whenever’, ask us how Sageable will help you define your ‘Future of Work’, so you can retain your best talent today and attract the best new talent tomorrow, with cost-effective programs that drive your teams’ engagement and productivity.

+ Product Planning

Whether you need to establish a new Product Vision, align Product with Corporate Strategy, define product-market fit, uncover competitive opportunities, gather customer requirements, prioritize roadmap commits, enable new teams to drive product, build features to close key deals, integrate new partners, drive build-buy-partner decisions, or just establish a product planning process that works for your business, a Sageable advisor can manage your Product Lifecycle from idea to cash cow … and beyond!

+ M&A Consulting

Sageable advisors have provided in-house leadership and independent advisory services to tech buyers and sellers for hundreds of M&A transactions, both material and ‘tuck-in’, totaling many billions of dollars invested. A Sageable advisor will help you to research markets, uncover M&A opportunities, establish dialog, perform due diligence, manage risk, make build-buy-partner decisions, establish differentiation, manage onboarding, and compose messaging for staff, press, analysts, and customers.

+ Investment Insight

Sageable is not an accredited investment advisor, but as market experts, our team consults with investment clients through multiple ‘Expert Networks’, including the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), AlphaSights, Coleman Research, Guidepoint, and Third Bridge. If you are in Private Equity, Venture Capital, or otherwise investing in tech, look for Sageable and our Global CTO & Founder, Andi Mann, on your preferred expert network to book a consult – at exclusive and highly competitive hourly rates.

+ Board of Directors/Board of Advisors

Leading businesses recognize that technology must be a ‘first class citizen’ in their strategy, and are increasingly adding technology expertise to their boards to drive digital transformation and technology innovation. A Sageable advisor will help you with the technology understanding that is critical to business success, whether as a full-time representative on your Board of Directors, a technology expert on your Board of Advisors, or a consultant to help you talk technology with your Board(s) and business advisors.

+ Technology Leadership Coaching

As a Technology Leader, you spend so much time and effort looking after others, that the last thing you think about is developing your own skills and career. Put yourself back in the picture with an experienced, independent, and successful Sageable advisor to help you. Ask us how our mentoring and coaching services will help you address your leadership challenges, build your strengths, address your weaknesses, and accelerate you career. Whether ad hoc, or on a long-term basis, we are here to help you succeed!

+ Technology Vendor/Partner Selection

Whether you need a broad-based solution review, market landscape to identify a long-list or short-list, identification and outreach to prospective technology partners, guidance on initial POC or MVP deployment, pricing research and negotiation advice, independent creation and/or execution of an RFI/RFP/RFT process, data-driven financial/ROI analysis, vendor onboarding and integration, or ad hoc consulting services to assist as needed, Sageable will help you find the best tech for your business.