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Articulating Slack's value against business goals
How a consultant explains why Slack matters by tying it to the client's own business goals: the vision questions, goal-to-example mappings, the value of one Enterprise org over separate workspaces, working out loud, tool consolidation and how to use the Forrester TEI study honestly.
Articulate the value of Slack.
~8 min read · 6 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Explain Slack's value in terms of the client's business goals, not as a feature list or a price comparison.
- Map a stated goal (culture, financial discipline, employee satisfaction, transparency) to concrete examples of how Slack delivers it.
- Articulate what an Enterprise organization (Enterprise Grid or Enterprise+ plan) adds over several standalone workspaces.
- Explain why working out loud in public channels creates more value than work held in direct messages.
- Recommend consolidating overlapping communication tools, and use vendor evidence such as the Forrester TEI study responsibly.
- Key terms: Slack vision (the client's answer to "Why Slack?"); working out loud (doing work in public channels so it is searchable); Enterprise org (one organization that connects many workspaces); multi-workspace channel (one channel shared by several workspaces in an org); TEI study (Forrester's Total Economic Impact model of a composite company).
Key facts
Vision questions
- Detail
- Why Slack? Employee benefit? Which business goals? Which behaviors to encourage?
Culture goal example
- Detail
- Work "out loud" in public channels so valuable work is searchable
Financial discipline examples
- Detail
- App integrations to reduce context switching; digital teams run projects fully in Slack
DMs
- Detail
- Two to nine participants; heavy DM time can undermine transparency goals
Enterprise+ value
- Detail
- Unlimited workspaces, multi-workspace channels, org-wide search, enterprise directory, centralized admin and app management
Already on Business+
- Detail
- SAML-based SSO and provisioning, content exports
Slack Connect
- Detail
- Shared channels from Pro, for external organizations
Tool consolidation
- Detail
- Huddles for quick talks plus one preapproved video app org-wide
TEI model
- Detail
- Composite 25,000-employee, $10B-revenue organization; 312% ROI over three years
Sources for this section (6)
- Establish Your Slack Visiontrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Translate Goals into Metricstrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Adoption and Engagement Metricstrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Discover Slack Planstrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Understanding Slack Management and Policy Recommendationstrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- The Total Economic Impact of Slackslack.com (opens in a new tab)
- Which four questions should a Slack vision answer?
- Why is upgrading a Business+ client "to get SAML SSO" a weak value statement?
- When does heavy DM use work against a client's goals?
- Why should a consultant present TEI figures as directional rather than as a forecast?
The questions are free to read. Answers with their sources and self-grading are included with the pack.
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- All 38 lessons of the Slack Consultant guide, with reading progress
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