But nothing is more important than leveraging the experts inside and outside your organization to ensure a quality pipeline of ideas.

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Finally, snapshot-based historical analysis is on top of the list for sales organization that want to understand pipeline movement and increase predictability.

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For example, a news organization may want to have a "high priority" transcoding pipeline for breaking news stories, or a User-Generated Content website may want to have separate pipelines for low, medium, and high resolution outputs to target different devices.

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On Monday, I wrote about an organization focused on training and educating women to become angel investors: The Pipeline Fellowship.

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