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Ravi Sundaramurthy

27. April, 2012 |

Thanks Ian for your comments. Like some of your articles on your site.

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Ravi

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Channel Strategy: Opinion vs Benchmarking

Establish a process of benchmarking your ideas

Channel Strategy: Opinion vs Benchmarking
Channel Strategy: Opinion vs Benchmarking

How many times have you been in meetings where people are pushing idealistic opinion based views aimed at increasing revenues within your partner channel community.  It often sounds something along the lines of… "by doing this and that, applying this rule and that rule, and putting these measurements in place, we’ll make our partner channel so productive."

Hold on, idealism is fine for visions and brainstorming, but life in the partner channel doesn’t work well when things are complicated.  Why?  Because, you are not the only partner that your supplier is working with.  The secret of success is to understand how they manage and control their channel and establish a process of benchmarking your ideas.  You may fail at some and succeed with others.  The most import fact is that you learn from the process and formulate your true go-to-market strategy without burning additional cost and resources.

Written by Ravi Sundaramurthy, Posted in Channel Management, 2398

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Ravi Sundaramurthy

Ravi Sundaramurthy

Prior to forming Channel2Market Ltd, Ravi worked for HCL Technologies and Oracle's Global Alliance & Channel organisation responsible for Oracle’s main strategic partnerships throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa.  He developed both technology and vertical initiatives, establishing some of the fastest growing resellers. With over 16 years at Oracle Ravi has held several positions within Server Technologies group, Business Intelligence & Warehousing division and was instrumental in defining and developing Oracle’s ClickStream Intelligence solution to market.

Ravi has worked within the IT industry for over 20 years.  His main interests still remain focused within the IT Solution space – driving cost out for customers that want to adopt disruptive go-to-market strategies. 

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