Demand pull is outrunning the plan for one still-small offering, and the company is visibly re-pointing itself at it
The model's full reasoning — Q4 2017 call → NOWe need to determine if management describes an offering with both: (1) customer response running ahead of what company prepared for, and (2) company responding now by putting more behind it. Also offering is small relative to total business. Let's scan transcript. Key offerings: Canvas (main), Bridge (corporate), Gauge, Perform, Practice (acquired). Also international expansion. Look for statements about demand exceeding preparation and current response. - Practice: acquired recently. Josh says "We have got a smooth integration and a great deal of early success" and lists customers. But does he say demand is ahead of what they prepared? Not explicitly. He says "We are very pleased with the results we have been seeing from Practice in such a short period of time. This success gives us confidence to continue to look for additional opportunities to expand and enhance our corporate product." That's about future opportunities, not current response. - Bridge: "Bridge had an excellent fourth quarter with triple digit year-over-year growth in revenue." But that's growth, not necessarily ahead of plan. Steve says "we expect Bridge to be somewhere in the range of 15% to 20% of our total bookings for the year" - that's a projection, not current. - International: "we continue to see great demand" but no mention of ahead of plan. - Paychex partnership: "We entered into a partnership with Paychex... which allows Paychex to offer Bridge Learn to their more than 0.5 million customers" - that's a new channel, but no mention of demand exceeding preparation. - Steve on sales force: "We really aren't growing the Bridge sales force very much in 2018... The focus on the domestic team is really around quota expansion." That's about efficiency, not adding capacity in response to demand. - On Practice, Steve says "we have got a little bit more to sell, so it's worth thinking about should we beep 0133 beef up the sales force a little bit. And we were talking about single digit kind of increases in numbers of people to help support that." That's a response to having more to sell, but is it because demand is ahead? Not clear. Also it's "thinking about" and "talking about" - not concrete steps already underway. - On international, Steve says "we are going to do a little bit of that in 2018" referring to adding to Bridge sales team for international.
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