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The Challenge

A global leader in telecommunications recently embarked on a digital content transformation journey to solve two key challenges:

  1. Content Marketing efficiency needed to be improved. Marketers were managing multiple copies of go-to-market (GTM) content and sales collateral. When product information was inevitably changed, updates had to be made in multiple content objects and systems.
  2. Sales Enablement content needed to be more findable. Sellers had to look in multiple systems for sales collateral, not being able to trust if the collateral they found had the most current product information.

In addition to these strategic marketing operations drivers, the company needed a solution that addressed the following challenges:

  • Sales team frustration over labor-intensive search experiences 
  • Lack of accessibility of relevant and reliable content across departments
  • Content consumers sorting through structurally inconsistent content about products, solutions, and services
  • Content creators managing complex workflows and duplicate content across multiple systems during content operations and curation processes
  • Enterprise misalignment on the system of record caused by a lack of cohesive understanding of the function of each system in the organization’s technical ecosystem

Duplicate and overlapping GTM content, inefficient content operations, and difficulty finding reliable sales collateral were costing the company a great deal and the problem demanded an urgent solution.

The Solution

Enterprise Knowledge (EK) partnered with the company for an end-to-end content strategy and engineering engagement. EK worked closely with client stakeholders across sales, marketing, and IT departments and conducted multiple focus groups, interviews, and system demos to understand the current state of the organization’s GTM content and content technology. EK then co-designed an updated content strategy which leveraged structured product content to optimize content operations, enabling multi-channel publication of GTM content and sales collateral.

EK’s team collaborated with key project stakeholders to design a product content model. EK’s consultants defined the structure of products, the relationship between product components, and the taxonomy necessary to traverse those relationships. The product content model now enables the intelligent assembly of sales collateral, as well as multi-channel publishing to multiple user experiences including sales enablement portals, marketing websites, mobile applications, and social media.

In addition to delivering the content strategy and product content model, EK provided the architecture and development of an enterprise content ecosystem. Expert solution architects collaboratively documented a comprehensive list of requirements and analyzed the organization’s current content tech stack. EK leveraged content strategy insights from related workstreams to identify cross-departmental touchpoints that would benefit from specific systems and illustrate where necessary taxonomy and content management system integrations would enhance content operation processes. The target solution enabled digital asset management, complex workflows, content reuse, dynamic content assembly, and multi-channel publishing.

EK delivered a solution for enterprise management of GTM content and sales collateral that leveraged prior work and analyses to create a fully customized, iterative, and immediately actionable roadmap and recommendation report for this client’s GTM content strategy. The roadmap and recommendation report included guidance for continuing the iterative development of a scalable enterprise content solution. This roadmap will help the organization sustain long-term GTM content strategy and outline short-term wins that can be implemented on a shorter timeline, including clear descriptions of how each task or workstream will benefit the organization’s business outcomes.

The EK Difference

EK’s advanced expertise in content engineering and enterprise content solutions enabled the company to optimize marketing operations and improve sales enablement outcomes. As part of our human-centered solution design methodology, EK’s team collaborated with key project stakeholders during our iterative design and development process. Our team also worked directly with system end users to ensure our understanding of their needs and concerns was accurate when designing a solution and delivering our final recommendations. EK’s Knowledge Management (KM) expertise allowed for secure multi-channel publishing to both an internal channel for sales enablement and external marketing channels while keeping product information secure and consistent.

The Results

This content engineering engagement supplied the company with a holistic product content model that unified cross-departmental product information and supporting metadata to streamline marketing operations. A centrally managed and consistently applied product taxonomy improves sales consistency and centrally managed structured product content reduces the time to publish GTM content and sales collateral.

In addition to improved marketing operations, sellers in the organization are able to find all product information and relevant sales collateral in one place instead of 10 distinct content repositories. This dynamic Sales Enablement Portal improves sales conversion and win rates, and supports more holistic conversions–facilitating cross-selling and up-selling when sellers are able to more quickly find reliable product information.

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Enterprise Knowledge to be a Core Sponsor and Training Leader at Drupal GovCon 2021 https://enterprise-knowledge.com/enterprise-knowledge-to-be-a-core-sponsor-and-training-leader-at-drupal-govcon-2021/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:05:28 +0000 https://enterprise-knowledge.com/?p=13630 Enterprise Knowledge (EK) is a Core Sponsor of Drupal GovCon 2021! The virtual conference will take place from October 13th to the 15th. This year five EK experts will lead two half-day training sessions at the Drupal GovCon conference. Drupal … Continue reading

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Enterprise Knowledge (EK) is a Core Sponsor of Drupal GovCon 2021! The virtual conference will take place from October 13th to the 15th. This year five EK experts will lead two half-day training sessions at the Drupal GovCon conference. Drupal GovCon brings together people from all over the country who use, develop, design, and support the Drupal platform. Although there is a focus on government, there is also a heavy representation of attendees from the private, non-profit, and education sectors. 

Andrew Ratner, Consultant, will lead a training session with Yanko Ivanov, Principal Solution Consultant, and Nick Sacoman, Drupal developer, on “Designing User Experiences for Headless Drupal” on Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 from 9 AM to 1 PM ET.

Their session will focus on the principles of user-centric design that should be leveraged when designing multi-channel user experiences. Additionally, the session will discuss where the future of content management is going and how to best leverage content components in Drupal. With instructional guidance from EK’s experts, participants will have an opportunity to create and design a user journey map to deliver targeted omnichannel content, restructure large documents for content reuse, and perform semantic content modeling.

Lisa McCray, Senior Drupal developer, and Corinne Aherne, Senior Analyst, will lead the training session “Designing Custom Content Models and Search HIT Types” on Thursday, October 14th, 2021 from 9 AM to 1 PM ET.

Their training session will focus on industry best practices for developing a successful content strategy, including how to use elements of content structures to both build content types and design content models. McCray and Aherne will guide participants through an analysis of unstructured content to identify important semantic patterns and will then teach participants how to apply the findings when defining content types. Participants will also learn skills for intentionally structuring their content to improve search. 

Register first for the conference by creating an account here: Drupal GovCon 2021 in order to access EK’s half-day training sessions Designing User Experiences for Headless Drupal and Designing Custom Content Models and Search HIT Types.

 

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