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Channel Chiefs, Part One: Surviving the Future

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 will be bringing you a series of twelve posts on the future of the channel and what savvy channel chiefs are already implementing to survive and thrive in the future.

New Opportunities and New Perils

We are in a time of digital transformation which promises exciting new capabilities enabled through the convergence of Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud, SMAC for short. The convergence of these technologies is enabling the Internet of Things, new digital business models and widespread industry disruption. While pundits estimate between $13-19 trillion of new value creation through this transformation, traditional industries are going to be SMAC’d. Who thought the Taxi industry might be Ubered and self-driving cars might change the entire ground transportation industry. No industry is immune.

What does this mean for the channel?

We’ve already seen some of the effects as cloud computing is taking hold and the buying power is shifting from IT to the business functions. The VAR population has declined; their margins on resale are compressing. A former Cisco channel executive noted that the transition to recurring revenue is a 3 year journey in surviving top line loss in revenue and channel partners may never recover lost margin. The only path to survival is through augmenting the business model to add new revenue streams.

Posts in the Series:

Stay Tuned as We Bring the Future to You.

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