C2B Insights


Competitive Intelligence Scott Swope Competitive Intelligence Scott Swope

Why Traditional Sales Enablement Fails: The Case for AI-Generated Battlecards

Visualize a specific folder in your company’s Google Drive. You know the one. It’s titled "Competitive Intel" or "Battlecards 2025."

It is where good sales deals go to die.

Inside that folder are beautifully designed, branded PDFs. They have nice headshots of the competitors’ CEOs, company history, and a three-column matrix of features. Marketing spent six weeks interviewing stakeholders and formatting these documents. They look professional. They look comprehensive.

And they are completely useless.

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Product Launch & GTM Andy Smolenski Product Launch & GTM Andy Smolenski

Is Marketing Too “Soft” for Lean and Agile?

I often hear people question how approaches to work like Lean and Agile can apply to marketing, an activity they see as highly creative and resistant to the discipline required of software engineers. Sadly, this reflects a lack of understanding both of the creativity inherent in software development and of the many ways that Lean and Agile can make marketing better.

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