The Joy of Discovery – Part 1

Author’s note: Discovery is a big topic, so big that I’m going to cover it in two parts.

Before you ever decide to demo software to a prospect you first have to conduct a process called discovery. There are at least two different types of discovery: business discovery and technical discovery. Business discovery is a discussion with the prospect that usually covers BANT (Budget, Authority, Need and Timeline.) Most of these topics are the domain of the sales representative, but the critical topic of “need” (ie, why do they need this software?’) overlaps with technical discovery, which is the domain of the sales engineer. Read more of this post