The real risk is missing revenue signals that are already present—signals that indicate expansion, contraction, competitive entry, or budget reallocation long before they show up in CRM, forecasts, or QBR decks.

The RepVue Q3 2025 Cloud Index is out—and the signals behind the numbers reveal a commercial landscape undergoing its most significant transformation in a decade.

by Lucrum Partners As we move into sales kickoff season, revenue leaders face a clear crossroads: either they run their playbooks like modern offensive coordinators, studying the defense (buyers), audibling at the line, adapting the play mid-game, or they rely on familiar “best practices” that increasingly resemble last season’s Hail Mary: flashy, hopeful, but lacking precision. At Lucrum Partners, we’ve seen enough performance data to know which path wins. The New Buying Gam

Across industries, B2B revenue leaders are feeling the pressure. Win rates are down. Customer experience is deteriorating. And buyer confidence, once predictable, is now scattered across bloated buying groups that can’t reach consensus.

Do your clients really trust your teams—or are they staying out of convenience until a better option comes along? It’s an uncomfortable question, but one every CEO needs to wrestle with before locking in a 2026 revenue plan

Over the past few years, the role of sales operations has undergone a profound transformation. No longer just a back-office function focused on CRM hygiene and forecasting reports, today’s sales operations must operate as a strategic command center—one that fuels growth, enables executive decision-making, and equips sellers with the tools, intelligence, and systems they need to win.

Know Thy Buyer (and their business)!!! The #LucrumPartners team continues to hear how often B2B sellers are encountering CFOs as key...