Why customer adoption is the real SaaS growth engine

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of customer adoption as a key driver of SaaS growth and retention.

Customer adoption is not training. Training helps people understand the product. Adoption changes how people work. In this episode of Breakthrough SaaS Growth, Jason Noble interviews co-host Jason Whitehead about the career-defining moment when his boss at Texas Instruments told him: "If we can’t get people to use the system and prove value, we don’t need it - or you." That moment shaped Jason’s view of adoption, value and what B2B SaaS companies often get wrong after the sale. We explore why customer adoption is one of the biggest drivers of retention, expansion and SaaS growth, and why many vendors still treat it as a training problem rather than a business change problem. We cover: Why customer adoption is not the same as training How adoption drives retention, expansion and customer value Why SaaS vendors often get adoption wrong What a real adoption programme looks like across the customer lifecycle How to bring adoption into the sales process How to de-risk large implementations How to move customers from "we bought the tool" to "we changed how we work" This is a practical episode for SaaS CEOs, CROs, CCOs, Customer Success leaders and implementation teams who want…

People in this episode

Host: Jason Whitehead

Guest: Jason Noble

Topics covered

• customer adoption
• SaaS growth
• retention
• business change
• implementation

Keywords

• customer adoption
• SaaS growth
• retention
• training
• business change
• implementation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Texas Instruments

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