For C-level teams in tech, industrial and global B2B

Growth accelerates when teams run on shared logic

David De Smedt aligns strategy, product, marketing and sales into one commercial system, so decisions get faster and growth compounds again.

Trusted by leaders at:

Ingram Micro
HP
Logitech International S.A.
Nvidia Corporation
Intel Corporation
Kingston Technology
ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Dolby (Theo Technologies)
Samsung Electronics
Kantar (a WPP and Bain Capital company)
DS Smith (International Paper)
IBM (via ACSL)
Where B2B growth breaks. And how to rebuild the system behind it
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The Problem

The problem is rarely one team. It's what happens between them.

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Marketing, sales and product can all perform well on their own. Growth slows when they stop reinforcing each other.

Different
Priorities

Teams optimise for different outcomes.

Different
Stories

Customers hear different versions of the same value.

Slow
decisions

The same questions keep coming back.

Fragmented execution

Strategy changes as it moves through the organisation.

Clarity Engine - How it works

One commercial logic. Across strategy, product, marketing and sales

The Clarity Engine finds where the system breaks, aligns teams around the same priorities and turns that clarity into coordinated execution.

Find the real
constraint

Locate where growth
actually breaks.

Create one
shared logic

Align priorities, positioning
and decisions in one pass.

Make it work
every day

Turn clarity into coordinated
execution that compounds.

what you get

Shared
priorities

Teams pull in
one direction.

Faster
decisions

Less debate.
More movement.

Stronger
execution

Clear ownership
across teams.

Commercial
consistency

One story across teams, markets
and customer conversations.

David De Smedt standing near whiteboard during the strategy meeting, explaning marketing strategy and team alignment.

Proven in complex B2B

Different symptoms.
The same underlying problem

30
%
Annual growth

Kantar

Kantar office
27
+
Countries aligned

DS Smith

ds smith headquarter
2
x
B2B revenue

Samsung Electronics

samsung headquarter
60
%
Market share

Kingston

kingston headquarter

From disconnected marketing to 2x B2B revenue.

Marketing

Sales

Product

Local marketing was disconnected from real sales conversations. Customer insight, sales, product and marketing were connected into one system.

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2x
revenue in one year
Samsung office

Making one commercial story work across 27 countries

Execution

Messaging

Packaging / Manufacturing

A group-level repositioning became a usable commercial system for sales teams across markets, languages and product areas.

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27+
countries using one sales system

Kantar’s SaaS business was growing. The commercial system had to catch up.

Scaling

Execution

Market Research & Consulting

A fast-growing platform business needed a more repeatable commercial system without losing the strengths of consultative selling.

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€100M+
Turnover

Samsung asked us to double B2B sales. The first fix was surprisingly small.

Execution

A simple sales need exposed a wider opportunity to connect Product, Sales and Marketing and expand into new B2B growth categories.

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2x
revenue in first year

Rebuilding Marketing without losing the quarter

Messaging

Q4 execution continued while the marketing plan, team structure and operating rhythm were rebuilt for the incoming leadership team.

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10 days
strategic go-to-market plan

Moving upstream changed the value of the relationship.

Positioning

Alignment

Technology Distribution

Direct access to NVIDIA created strategic advantages beyond the individual products we sold, while AMD showed how ecosystem players protect their own leverage.

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Up- stream
relationship
David De Smedt
David De Smedt
David De Smedt
David De Smedt

You work with me. Not with a team you never met.

I lead every stage personally - from interviews and diagnosis to alignment and activation.

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20+ years inside the functions I now help align, rather than observing them from the outside.

SALES

Sold to complex B2B buyers

Product

Built and managed commercial propositions

Marketing

Led European and Global marketing

Leadership

Worked as VP, CMO and CRO

Start with diagnose

Answer 5 questions. See where your commercial system is losing clarity.

A short diagnostic built on the Alignment Matrix. It points to where friction is most likely sitting — not a definitive answer.

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