It is easy to think AI technology will quickly solve the scale problem in value selling. But before turning to AI, it helps to ask a few basic questions about how your value management (VM) program works today.
The latest updates, stories, ideas and thought leadership from the Mainstay team.
Value Management in 2026: Why the Industry Is at an Inflection Point
Value management is undergoing a meaningful transformation. Once positioned as a sales support function, our report shows it is increasingly recognized as a strategic capability that directly influences competitive positioning, revenue growth, buyer journey velocity, and customer success.
Beyond the Shiny AI Objects: The Hidden ROI of Foundational Tech in the AI Era
Whether it’s the buyer or the seller of foundational technology solutions, a proactive value management strategy is required to ensure these capabilities are quantified and communicated
Blog Series: Balancing Hybrid Work Choices
New blog series shares solutions for ensuring that your organization is set up to succeed regardless of which work model you choose.
Why Value Selling is the next step in your transformation
To close more deals, use value selling to enable decision-makers to easily evaluate the worth of a particular technology solution.
Value Management and Value Engineering for the Digital Era
If you are a technology solution provider or a CIO investing in digital transformation, it’s time to harness the power of value management.Â
5 Best Practices for Running a Demand Generation campaign
Here are 5 tips to succeed with your demand generation campaigns and provide a measurable way to fill your pipeline.
Why is Demand Generation critical to filling your pipeline?
Demand generation campaigns can build pipeline through targeted delivery of messages and content across multiple channels.
Hybrid Events can Increase ROI, Revenue and Audience
Hybrid events that integrate virtual technology with in-person events, can help decrease the average event budget by up to 50%.
Legal Teams: bringing workers back to the office
Although all employee teams are navigating the post-pandemic workplace, legal experts are uniquely equipped to support complex issues.
Facilities Teams: The People Side of Bringing People Back
For a frictionless flow of information between employees and Facilities managers, promote visibility and workplace culture.
HR Teams – The People Side of Bringing People Back to Work
As some offices return to in-office and others build up a digital architecture to support hybrid work, HR must help external workers adapt.
IT After COVID-19: Managing Changes from the People’s Perspective
IT teams can play a central part in refashioning the motivations and behaviors of employees as they return to the office.
Beyond Excel: Smart Options for Estimating ROI
When you’re dealing with time or budget constraints, many people will choose to simply live with Excel’s limitations. But there is another option – the hybrid cloud solution.
Building a Business Case in Zoom Times
The most effective business case tools feature embedded collaboration to assign data inputs, track those inputs, as well as provide real-time reporting.
How Technology Vendors Can Help CIOs Win with Value Management
Gartner estimates that CIOs who communicate IT’s value achieve 60% more funding than peers, but 63% of CIOs struggle to demonstrate their dept’s impact.















