I was at Conga Connect 2026 last week and had the chance to witness something you don’t see very often in B2B technology. A brand redesign revealed live to customers. Not teased on social media. Not rolled out quietly through […]
Three Signals About the Future of Revenue Execution from Conga Connect 2026
I spent this past week at Conga Connect 2026, speaking with customers, executives, and operators across the revenue ecosystem. The brand reveal will likely be the moment most attendees remember from the event. I covered that story separately. But […]
Infographic: How One Company Rebuilt a Fragile SDR Engine with Apollo.io
This 3Sixty Insights infographic examines how one organization rebuilt a fragile SDR engine after realizing that its outbound motion had become overly dependent on email and weighed down by a costly “Franken-stack” of tools such as ZoomInfo, Groove, and Gong. […]
Infographic: 3x Pipeline, 80% Lower Costs – Rethinking the Modern Sales Stack
This infographic, based on analysis from Kyle James, examines the hidden cost of the typical “Franken-stack” sales environment where multiple disconnected tools handle data, engagement, calling, and analytics. This fragmentation creates a significant productivity drain as teams spend hours each […]
The Web Is Forking Again
Last week I wrote that SaaS isn’t dying. It’s being sorted. Thin workflow tools are under pressure, systems of record are becoming infrastructure, and the era of easy multiple expansion is behind us. That conversation was about repricing. This one is about rewiring. Underneath the market […]
#HRTechChat: David Edwards on the “Last Mile” from Data to Decisions
In this episode of #HRTechChat, Nicole Roberts (Senior Analyst & Advisor, 3Sixty Insights) is joined by David Edwards—strategic workforce planning practitioner, advisor, and author of The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook—for a candid conversation about the gap between SWP theory and […]
#HRTechChat: Aman Kaur-Shaik on Why AI Adoption in HR Starts with Knowledge, Data, and Culture
In this episode of #HRTechChat, Dylan Teggart speaks with Aman Kaur-Shaik—HR Director at Nutrien, member of the 3SixtyInsights Global Executive Advisory Council, and a 2024 Global Top 100 HR Executive—about what it really takes for organizations to adopt AI successfully. […]
Monthly Research Recap | February 2026
Recent Research: Research Agenda: Workforce Strategy, HR Enablement & HR Technology in an AI-Augmented World Nicole Roberts’ research agenda examines how workforce strategy, HR enablement, and HR technology are evolving as AI and automation reshape how work is performed and […]
SaaS Isn’t Dead. It’s Growing Up.
I was super early at HubSpot, a first one hundred employee. I watched the company go public. I used some of the gains from that IPO to put a down payment on my house. It was one of those rare moments where a long bet actually paid […]
Is CRM Becoming Infrastructure?
A Quiet Migration Play Reshaping GTM For more than two decades, CRM has functioned as both the filing cabinet where structured customer data lives and the desk where go-to-market work gets done. If you wanted visibility, you logged into CRM. […]
Rethinking Recurring Revenue: Why Customer Retention Is the Real Growth Strategy
Kyle James and I recently had a conversation with Zuora, one of the early pioneers and leading platforms in subscription-based billing. They have spent more than a decade helping organizations operationalize recurring revenue models. What stood out in our discussion […]
From Data Abundance to Decision Scarcity in Sales Intelligence
Sales teams have more data and more recommendations than ever. What they have less of is confidence in what to do next. Across GTM organizations, a consistent pattern is emerging: sales intelligence systems are excellent at surfacing signals, but far […]
Anatomy of a Decision: How One Customer Rebuilt Its Entire SDR Motion with Apollo.io
For most B2B SaaS companies, the SDR function is the daily engine of pipeline creation. For one Apollo.io customer, that engine had become fragile: over-reliant on email, constrained by tool sprawl, and misaligned with how modern buyers actually want to […]
Revenue Orchestration Is Replacing Point Solutions as the Unit of Value
Over the last year, one of the strongest signals emerging from ongoing GTM research has been a clear shift toward efficiency. Not incremental efficiency, but structural efficiency. GTM teams are under pressure to do more with fewer tools, fewer handoffs, […]
Analyst Insight: Beyond Contact Data – How Apollo.io Is Rewiring the Sales Stack for the Efficiency Era
For years, Apollo.io was seen primarily as a data vendor. Most people who knew the name placed it next to ZoomInfo and Clearbit, assuming it was another place to find company and contact records. That framing made sense at the […]
#HRTechChat: Do More With Less Is Breaking Managers (and What to Do About It) — with JD Dillon
In this episode of #HRTechChat, Dylan Teggart is joined by JD Dillon—advisor, speaker, and author of The Modern Learning Ecosystem—to unpack the “do more with less” reality shaping work in 2026 and why managers are taking the brunt of it. […]
Quietly Becoming the Differentiator in GTM
There is a reason sales reps still exist. There’s also a reason brands continue to rely on founders, executives, employees, and even public figures to carry their message. From celebrities lending credibility to consumer brands, to founders and operators becoming […]
Monthly Research Recap | January 2026
Recent Research: Market Alert: Four Months In – What’s Really Taking Shape at Clari and Salesloft Four months after announcing their merger, Clari and Salesloft are signaling a disciplined, customer-first approach that prioritizes long-term value over rapid consolidation. Rather than […]
Are GTM Teams Vibe Coding Before They Commit to Platforms Like Gainsight?
In many cases, GTM software underdelivers not because it lacks capability, but because teams commit to it before they are operationally ready to absorb it. That observation has been coming up with increasing frequency in recent conversations with customer success leaders, RevOps teams, and […]
When Organizational Change Becomes Organizational Damage
Over the past several months, I have been sharing a series of posts and videos focused on what I believe is one of the most troubling issues facing organizations today. It is not change itself. Change is necessary. In fact, […]