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Revenue Operating System · Problem Centric™ OS Implementation & Consulting

The Revenue Operating System for Teams
Where More Spend Hasn't Fixed Anything.

OS Implementation is ASG's consulting engagement for CROs and VPs of Sales who have bought training, tools, and platforms for years and still can't explain why win rate hasn't moved. It installs the Problem Centric™ OS, the operating system behind Keenan's book Gap Revenue Performance. It connects how your team trains, sells, and forecasts into one structure built around the buyer's world.

People We Work With
Emburse Palo Alto Networks GE HealthCare Citrix PitchBook Intel
The Problem

Why More Spend Keeps Producing Worse Results

63%→28% Reps hitting quota, 2012 vs. 2024
5.7x Growth in CRM spend over the same period — alongside a 4.8x increase in enablement platform spend

Win rates have dropped 27% since 2021. Sales cycles have lengthened 38%. Rep ramp time has doubled. Every measure of sales performance has gotten worse for fifteen consecutive years, while spending on the tools meant to fix it went up 5-6x.

The reason isn't a lack of investment. It's that training, execution, and forecasting run as separate efforts. Enablement delivers content without reinforcement. Managers coach to process instead of buyer progress. Leaders forecast from rep confidence instead of verified buyer data. Each function does its job in isolation, and the isolation is the problem.

The Problem Centric™ OS connects every layer of revenue execution through shared logic and buyer-verified data, so training, execution, and forecasting stop running as three disconnected efforts with a CRM login in common.

The Methodology

What the Problem Centric™ OS Is

The Problem Centric™ OS is a structured framework that connects how revenue teams train, execute, and forecast: one operating logic across the organization, anchored in the buyer's problem and the measurable outcomes it drives. It isn't a methodology or a tool. It's the operating layer that keeps every role, process, and metric connected.

01

Skills Layer

Where sellers develop the ability to diagnose problems and link value to measurable business outcomes. Built on Gap Selling, Gap Prospecting, and Buyer Input Data™. Shifts enablement from general training to targeted skill development tied to live deals.

02

Opportunity Layer

Where managers and sellers apply the same logic to every opportunity, using the Problem Identification Chart (PIC™) and Buyer Input Data™ to evaluate deal quality. Creates consistent deal reviews and coaching focused on buyer progress, not pipeline stage.

03

Forecast Layer

Where leadership validates which deals are ready to close, using the Buyer Confidence Model™ to assess five criteria: Clarity, Control, Consensus, Commitment, and Competition. If any one fails, the deal doesn't commit. It goes back to the Opportunity Layer for more Buyer Input Data instead of staying in the forecast on hope.

Buyer Input Data™ (BID) flows through all three layers continuously: the connective tissue that keeps every layer grounded in what the buyer confirmed, not what the rep assumes.

The Engagement

How OS Implementation Works

A structured consulting engagement, not a training event. Each phase builds on Buyer Input Data from the last, so the system gets more accurate as it runs, not just at kickoff.

01

Assessment and Diagnosis

Evaluate your current system across the Skills, Opportunity, and Forecast layers. Identify where disconnects limit effectiveness and quantify the business impact.

02

Roadmap and Prioritization

Build a phased plan that defines what to improve first and how success will be measured. Each initiative links directly to outcomes like win rate, forecast accuracy, and sales cycle efficiency.

03

System Implementation

Embed the OS framework into daily operations. Align enablement programs, deal management, and forecasting practices to the same buyer-centric logic.

04

Leadership Alignment

Facilitate workshops that unify executive, management, and enablement teams under one operating model, with shared metrics and inspection points.

05

Continuous Optimization

Use Buyer Input Data™ to measure progress, identify new gaps, and refine the system. Each improvement cycle strengthens the connection between training, execution, and forecasting.

Each engagement delivers: a Problem Centric™ OS Maturity Assessment scored across all three layers; a diagnostic report on current gaps, root causes, and business impact; a prioritized 90-day action plan and 12-month roadmap; an operating rhythm framework for inspection cadence and reinforcement; Buyer Input Data™ integration guidelines; a leadership workshop; and a reinforcement plan linking coaching to the OS architecture.

Training Spend

What You've Actually Been Buying

What you keep buying falls into one of three patterns, none of which move revenue.

Random / Heroic / Peacock

Random orgs buy generic workshops: a two-day event, a charismatic speaker, a binder of tips. Reps come back energized for a week. By month two nothing's stuck, and next quarter leadership is shopping for a different vendor. Heroic orgs invest in qualification frameworks like MEDDIC. Late-stage deal hygiene gets clean, but early diagnosis stays wherever the top rep happens to take it. Peacock orgs spend the most of the three on process academies, value messaging, and account-planning programs. The optics are immaculate. Win rate doesn't move, because they're buying the appearance of a system without the inspection layer that makes a system work.

Stop Buying Training and Tools. Start Implementing a System.
The Problem Centric™ OS

The fourth pattern: Compounding, the one most orgs want and almost none build, the result of implementing a revenue operating system like the Problem Centric™ OS. Coverage and reinforcement pushed to the upper bound, rigorous diagnosis matched by rigorous inspection. It isn't a methodology you buy. It's an operating system with built-in hooks that connect diagnosis to coaching and qualification to forecast, so every closed deal, won or lost, makes the next one sharper.

Free Diagnostic

Not Sure If the OS Is the Right Fix?

Take the Quick Pulse Revenue Performance Assessment: ten questions on how your team trains, executes, and forecasts today. Find out where the system is breaking down before you commit to anything.

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Proof

What Changes When the System Connects

+23% Higher Win Rates +140% More Bookings · 70% Larger Deals
Matt GahrCRO, Emburse — 7 teams, 100+ reps
11%→24% Win Rate 18mo→89d Sales Cycle
Alicia RastaEVP Global Sales, Televerde
"It changes the landscape of the organization completely. If you want to be in hypergrowth, if you're in growth phase right now — Gap Selling is where you need to be." Mark Cope, CRO — Corestream
Who It's For

Built for Leadership Teams Ready to Connect the System

OS Implementation is built for leadership teams that want consistency, predictability, and measurable improvement in revenue performance: organizations ready to connect training, execution, and forecasting into one operating model instead of running them as three separate efforts.

Chief Revenue Officers & VPs of Sales

Need a structured system to improve win rates, forecast accuracy, and deal quality, not another point solution layered onto three that already exist.

Revenue Operations Leaders

Responsible for unifying process, data, and enablement across the sales organization under one operating logic instead of disconnected tools.

Enablement & Training Leaders

Want programs tied directly to live deal performance and measurable outcomes, not completion metrics.

Sales Managers & Executives

Need a consistent framework for coaching, deal reviews, and pipeline management that runs on buyer data instead of rep confidence.

Private Equity & Growth Teams

Evaluating the scalability and health of portfolio company revenue systems before or after acquisition.

Who You'll Work With

Led by Keenan and Celeste

OS Implementation is led by Keenan, creator of the Problem Centric™ OS, and Celeste, who brings two decades of enterprise sales leadership into the engagement. Both run the assessment, build the roadmap, and deliver the workshops behind the results above.

Keenan, founder and CEO of A Sales Growth Company

Keenan

Founder & CEO, A Sales Growth Company

Keenan is the architect of the Problem Centric™ OS and author of the bestselling books Gap Selling and Gap Prospecting, along with Gap Revenue Performance, the book that lays out the operating system behind this engagement. He has spent over a decade building the diagnostic frameworks that connect how revenue teams train, sell, and forecast, and is a leading voice in problem-centric revenue performance, featured in Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, and Entrepreneur.

Celeste Berke-Kinsley, ASG Consulting

Celeste

Certified Gap Selling Training Partner

Celeste is an award-winning sales leader with more than two decades of experience in corporate and enterprise sales, including leading $100M+ portfolios and building high-performing teams from the ground up. Recognized as Director of Sales of the Year and a two-time Manager of the Year, she brings that operating experience directly into OS Implementation engagements: running the assessment, building the roadmap, and installing the coaching and forecasting rhythms that make the system hold after the workshop ends.

Common Questions

What to Know Before You Commit

What Is the Problem Centric™ OS?

The Problem Centric™ OS is a structured operating system that connects how revenue teams train, execute, and forecast through three layers: Skills, Opportunity, and Forecast, anchored in Buyer Input Data™ (BID), the buyer's confirmed, quantified information about their problem, its dollar impact, and its root cause. It isn't a training program or a single tool; it's the operating layer that keeps every role, process, and metric connected, so a skill gap identified in a deal review automatically routes back to the Skills Layer instead of getting lost.

How Is the Problem Centric™ OS Different from a Training Program or Qualification Framework?

Most training spend falls into one of three patterns: a generic workshop that fades by the next quarter, a qualification framework like MEDDIC that cleans up late-stage deal hygiene but leaves early diagnosis to whichever rep is naturally good at it, or a process academy that produces polished playbooks with no inspection layer underneath them. The Problem Centric™ OS is the pattern most orgs want and almost none build: an operating system, not a training category, that routes a gap found in any layer back to the layer that has to fix it. A skills gap found in a deal review goes back to enablement. An unverified forecast goes back to the Opportunity Layer for more Buyer Input Data. That's the mechanism the other categories don't have.

Is This Related to the Book Gap Revenue Performance?

Yes. Gap Revenue Performance, written by Keenan, is the book that lays out the Problem Centric™ OS in full: why sales enablement has been optimizing for the wrong outcome for fifteen years, and the operating system built to replace it. OS Implementation is the consulting engagement that installs that system inside your organization; the book is available now on Amazon.

Who Is OS Implementation Built For?

OS Implementation is built for CROs, VPs of Sales, Revenue Operations leaders, and enablement leaders at organizations where training, deal execution, and forecasting run as disconnected efforts: where enablement can't prove its content moved a number, deal reviews focus on stage instead of buyer-confirmed progress, and forecasts are built on rep confidence rather than verified buyer data.

What Results Can We Expect from OS Implementation?

Organizations implementing the Problem Centric™ OS report higher win rates, shorter sales cycles, and more accurate forecasts. Emburse integrated 7 sales teams and 100+ reps on the OS and saw 140% more bookings, 23% higher win rates, and 70% larger deal sizes. Televerde cut its sales cycle from 18 months to 89 days and improved win rate from 11% to 24% after evaluating Miller Heiman, SPIN, and Challenger and choosing this approach instead.

What Is Buyer Input Data (BID)?

Buyer Input Data™ is the buyer's confirmed, quantified intelligence about their specific problem, what it's costing them in dollars, and its root cause, captured through structured discovery, not inferred from CRM activity or rep notes. It's the data that flows through all three layers of the OS, which is what keeps skills development, deal coaching, and forecasting grounded in what the buyer said instead of what the rep assumed.

Get Started

Assess the System Behind Your Sales Performance

The first step is a conversation to understand what's breaking down in your revenue system and why. We'll look at how your team trains, executes, and forecasts today, identify where performance gaps exist, and discuss whether the Problem Centric™ OS is the right framework to solve them.