Elements.cloud Podcast

Elements.cloud podcast

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Podcast by Elements.cloud

01/18/2023

The $ TRILLION problem

Elements.cloud Podcast

25 min
09/16/2021

Sean Ouimette, Salesforce Practice Leader at Mastersolve: Why Have a Center of Excellence?

Sean Ouimette, Salesforce Practice Leader at Mastersolve, 20x Salesforce Certified and Center of Excellence expert, explains the benefits of having a COE. These include clarifying policy and strategy, improving creativity, and identifying organization bottlenecks. He talks about how a COE is a communication vehicle, and way to clarify process. Steps to creating a COE include getting buy-in, engaging all users, mapping applications to goals and analyzing effectiveness of technology architecture.

27 min
08/20/2021

Jeff Susich, Salesforce Consultant: Lessons from 200+ Implementations

Jeff Susich, Salesforce Consultant and trainer, shares the lessons from completing over 200 Salesforce implementations. Key lessons for creating and maintaining an outstanding Org are 1. Get senior buy in 2. Don't over complicate it 3. Do great training 4. Ask users the right questions, such as "What do you want Salesforce to do for you?". He also gives great practical tips for Org design.

16 min
08/02/2021

Matt Blocha, Salesforce Consultant:Best Practices for an Outstanding Org

Matt Blocha, Salesforce Consultant and trainer, shares his vast experience of Salesforce implementations and consulting projects to recommend a range of best practices for creating your own outstanding org. Best practices: Documentation and config knowledge Have well-qualified Admin/Org owner/Architect Have a center of excellence Have a steering committee for implementations Ensure leadership buy-in Delete things in Org that are unused Do great training Exploit the platform as much as possible. Put everything you can into Salesforce Have consistent naming conventions Use all possible Salesforce tools Utilize a sandbox Use expert consultants Do great testing

19 min
06/10/2021

Vernon Keenan, Senior Industry Analyst at SalesforceDevops.net: The Devops Pyramid

Vernon Keenan, industry analyst and consultant, explains the need for layers of Devops and makes a case for paying rigorous attention to making changes to Salesforce Orgs. First, repositories for source code, then release management, developer platforms, pipeline orchestration, observability, the human element, application lifecycle management, and finally corporate management. With lots of concrete details and real-life examples, he lays out a best-practice framework for continuous improvement.

39 min
05/06/2021

Allen Lovett, SVP North American Sales Lucid LLC: How can CRMs best deliver ROI?

Part of the Elements Center of Excellence Roundtable, Ian Gotts (Elements CEO) and Allen Lovett (SVP North American Sales Lucid LLC) discuss how CRMs can best deliver ROI and efficiency, and deliver the right information to the right roles to enable the best decisions.

30 min
12/17/2020

Elements on Elements with Adrian King & Jack Lavous: Measure Twice, Cut Once

Adrian King, Elements Co-Founder, CTO & COO joins Elements Salesforce Admin Jack Lavous to bring to life the Elements on Elements case study, and why it's especially critical to get the Analysis phase of the Implementation Lifecycle right. Do the work now, or pay later. See featured case study here: https://elements.cloud/success/

30 min
12/07/2020

Justin Donlon, VP of Process Innovation and Analytics at CarGurus, explains why DATA must be a first class citizen for implementation success.

Justin Donlon, VP of Process Innovation and Analytics at CarGurus, explains why DATA must be a first class citizen for implementation success. He names the three rights of passage for every Salesforce Admin or Consultant: integrating CPQ, consolidating Orgs, and transition to Lightning. He reflects on why these projects get derailed when data is not treated as a first class citizen. "Too often data is used to enable features and functionality. Rather, features and functions should create accurate, quality data"

29 min

Learn from the Best

10/30/2020

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I love listening to the Elements.Cloud podcast to study the best practices from the best Salesforce CRM administrators, analysts, and architects!

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