Changing Channels host Larry Walsh recounts the highlights of 26 episodes with some of our top guests and industry luminaries. Many people in the world would say that 2021 is not a year they’d want to repeat, given the ongoing pandemic, inflation, and supply-chain disruptions. Suffice...
Denzil Samuels, vice president of the global CX Partner Practice at Cisco, joins Channelnomics Changing Channels host Larry Walsh to discuss how vendors can enable partners to meet shifting customer experience expectations. ...
Rising prices will likely have a ripple effect through the channel, necessitating adjustments in strategies, programs, and partner relationships. ...
Precautions to stop the virus’s spread will cause short-term disruptions and long-term changes to the way vendors go to market....
For guidance on what to do when change comes a-calling, look no further than Chuck Robbins, Satya Nadella, Ginni Rometty, and Mark Hurd...
Spending on channels isn’t a guarantee of success, but starving programs almost always guarantees disappointment....
Andrew Sage, vice president of Americas distribution at Cisco Systems, joins Pod2112 to discuss the evolving role and value of distribution from a vendor perspective....
Companies that built the various IT industry segments could always rely on knowing their competition would look and act more or less like them, but that’s no longer true....
The U.S. had 6 million unfilled tech jobs last year, many of them among IT resellers and service providers. Competition between vendors and partners makes filling those jobs more difficult....
Michelle Ragusa-McBain, a customer, partner experience manager at Cisco, and chairperson of the CompTIA Advancing Women in Technology community, joins Pod2112 to discuss the need to support women’s technology careers and the resources available to women who have, or aspire to have, careers in technology....
The takeover of Whole Foods by Amazon rattled the retail grocery world, with many predicting legacy supermarkets already lost to the digital behemoth. The tech market is watching wearily as Amazon encroaches on its turf. It’s time to stop fearing Amazon and embrace it. ...
Partners speak out on the best vendor channel programs and the vendors that offer the best opportunity for growth. ...