Understanding if you have the right number of channel partners can be a tricky question and one related to having the right partners. You may have thousands of partners but they may not be productive for you or they may not have the right skills. But assuming they are the right partners with the rights skills,there is still a possibility [...]
You’ve recruited partners and now you need to get them ready to sell your products and solutions. Systematic and deliberate onboarding can have long term impact on partner loyalty and productivity. By one company's experience, 50% greater first year revenue was realized by those partners onboarded through a carefully planned partner experience vs those left to [...]
“Well, they get a good margin” was the response to the question “What is the partner value proposition?” at one large manufacturer. Margin as defined between the difference between buy price and sell price is probably not the right answer. “Do I offer my partner a profitable business proposition?” is a better question. The right answer [...]
Do you Have the Right Channel for your Future? The Buyer's journey has changed in the past few years. Has your channel strategy kept up? Have your partners? How are you transforming your channel to address how buyers buy? How is your channel changing to keep up? Here are some facts about the new world: [...]
What Savvy Channel Chiefs Already Know How does a channel chief address the seismic shifts happening in the world of digital transformation? How can you enable the channel to make the crossing to new opportunities promised by the digital transformation? Phoenix Consulting Group and Highland Team have assembled thought pieces from our research, our library, [...]
Partner managers need many skills to orchestrate collaboration between partnering organizations. Based on the requirements outlined by the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals[1], the successful partner manager must have developed skills that are not only specific to collaboration but also to broad business and industry knowledge along with an in depth understanding of their own organization. [...]
TALKIN' SMAC AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Author: Hobart Swan | Published by: CCI Global Channel Management, January 2016 Feature Let’s start off with a definition. The Altimeter Group defines digital transformation as “the realignment of, or new investment in, technology and business models to more effectively engage digital customers at every touch point in the customer experience lifecycle.” [...]
Is IoT Ready for the Channel? We’ve been hearing IoT is coming; IoT is coming for some time. The fact of the matter is IoT is here. GE announced that they saw $6B inrevenue in industrial IoT this past year, 2015. Others Amazon, Google, IBM, even the US government have also announced huge investments into [...]
Skills, Aptitudes and Attitudes of Highly Successful Partner Managers There are key differences in skills, aptitudes and attitudes of a highly collaborative partner manager. They are skilled at adapting to an ever changing environment and operating in a world beyond the traditional organization boundaries. Their ability to collaborate is what provides them the relationship power [...]
Traditional learning and training paths are based purely on gaining knowledge. The assumption can be made that with knowledge our employees and partners can be more successful. And it is true. However, the missing element comes when this knowledge needs to be applied through experienced judgement. Partner managers will only be as successful as their [...]