Companies invest considerable resources in recruiting partners, yet very few genuinely exploit the potential of their ecosystem. Where does this paradox come from, and how do you get out of it?
With apologies to Descartes for the nod: indirect business, too, benefits from being conducted with method. Why opportunism costs so much, and what a shared method changes.
Good products, good partners, good Channel Managers… and yet only part of the potential is exploited. What makes the difference is not the quality of the players, but the way they work together.
More than twenty years of indirect business and several hundred engagements have given us a few strong convictions. Here they are, as they underpin the PAD Method®, illustrated by what we see in the field.
They show up in almost every network we audit, and they feed one another. How to recognise them, what they cost you, and where to start to break the cycle.
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