A useful ICP is a decision contract
An ICP written only as positioning prose cannot govern a list. An executable ICP names the account unit, hard requirements, useful indicators, exclusions, acceptable evidence and what happens when the evidence is missing.
Requirements are different from indicators
A requirement decides whether the account belongs. An indicator changes priority after qualification. Keeping them separate prevents an exciting signal from rescuing a company the offer cannot credibly serve.
Carry the decision into the CRM
Preserve the reason, evidence, date and review owner. A rejected account should not reappear from the next data source, and an uncertain account should not be presented as qualified.
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