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Learnings for artificial intelligence meets sales Hackathon

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I arranged an AI hackathon at Aalto University in Helsinki. We started with the Sales Opportunity Qualification assignment. The business problem many B2B sales organisations have is low hit rate, especially in businesses with long sales cycles (3 to 24 months) and high cost of sales (thousands or tens of thousands Euro and multiple people participating solution design, proposal development, negotiations and so on). Typically sales organisations have very little data and facts about the sales process, even less about how customers make decisions (etc. We presented a data set of 200 sales opportunities; 150 lost and 50 won opportunities.