This is the presentation from Baxter Denney's presentation on Sales & Marketing Alignment at the Altamont Group's December 2011 "Total Customer Management" conference in San Francisco.
HBR has an article titled “ending the war between sales & marketing” where they defined 4 stages: undefined, defined, aligned, and integrated.We felt we were in the “defined” bucket: we have rules for preventing disputes, share common language for leads, etc, and use meetings to clarify mutual expectationsTo get to “aligned” HBR suggests establishing regular meetings, define who should be consulted on which decisions, and create oppty’s for sales and marketing to collaborateThe major friction usually is economic, but can be cultural. Ours was the former, as you can tell from this slide.