Table 119 Aug 2026From “The sales tooling minefield, twenty-four years on”

The six-month rollout review

Five checkpoints that keep role fit, sustained use, people outcomes and sales outcomes in one review.

Table 1The six-month rollout review

Stage	Question	Evidence to bring
Before training	Which sales activities will the system augment, standardize, or make feel replaceable?	Role map, customer-interaction map, and short interviews with users and managers
After training	Do people perceive relative advantage, job fit, and professional fit?	The same short survey for every user, plus open explanations of the score
Month 3	Is use sustained after the novelty and training support have faded?	Usage by role and activity, repeat fit measures, and examples of work the system changed
Month 6	What changed in absenteeism, turnover, and sales performance?	Preimplementation comparison, absence and exit records, contracts or volume, and customer-work evidence
Review	What must be redesigned before expanding the rollout?	A decision log tied to activities and roles, with no universal adoption threshold

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Revenue operations & AI

The sales tooling minefield, twenty-four years on

One field study found positive reactions after sales force automation training, then rejection six months later. The signal was fit.

19 Aug 2026

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@misc{isoglu-2026-sales-tooling-minefield-twenty-four-years-on-fig01,
  author = {Isoglu, Sinan},
  title = {{The six-month rollout review}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Table 1, isoglu.com},
  url = {https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-sales-tooling-minefield-twenty-four-years-on-fig01/},
  note = {From the essay {The sales tooling minefield, twenty-four years on}}
}

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