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Why aren’t sales and marketing in the same office, at the same table?

CIM MCIM Member Mohamed Hassan Abukashawa shares why marketing and sales must move beyond silos, and how RevOps creates a shared path to revenue.

CIM MCIM Member Mohamed Hassan Abukashawa explains why marketing and sales should speak the same language.

Why aren’t sales and marketing in the same office, at the same table? That question followed me through my first management role. Both teams were chasing the same prospect, the same pipeline, the same customer — and describing it in two different languages. Marketing talked awareness, engagement, brand equity. Sales talked quota, close rate, deal velocity. Same destination, different maps.

Revenue Operations gave that instinct a name. It confirmed what the divide had always been: not a fact of organisational life, but a design choice — and an increasingly expensive one, especially in a region where marketing and sales teams are being asked to move at GCC speed without a shared operating


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