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IBM Reimagines Its Relationship with Partners: A Q&A with IBM Ecosystem General Manager Kate Woolley (Part 2)

IBM Business Partners

During that time, she played an instrumental supporting role for the CEO, helping amplify his strategic priorities throughout the company. In January, Krishna asked Woolley to lead one of the company’s top growth areas – the IBM Ecosystem – and named her IBM Ecosystem General Manager.

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How Nurturing Partners is Crucial to Untapped Channel Sales

Magnetrix

3rd best practice: ensure partners understand the benefits and requirements of the partnership. When to end a channel partnership? Practice prudence and have a process to end the partnership. So again, nurturing those channel partnerships.

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How to Create and Best Leverage Strategic Channel Partnerships

Magnetrix

Leverage partnerships & know where to invest time. Understand partnership goals and progress. Uncommon ways to leverage a strategic partnership. Dealing with underperforming partnerships. Go back to basics: re-evaluate the partnership.

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How Channel Partners Help Build a Brand’s Authority

Magnetrix

Engage in strategic one-on-ones with channel partners. How to reverse the damage of a partnership that is affecting the ecosystem. Engage in strategic one-on-ones with channel partners. But I do think, particularly early on, establish those strategic relationships.

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100 Days as Tackle’s Chief Cloud Officer

Tackle.io

While a serious business climate, Aussies seem to have found work-life harmony. One of my last business trips of 2020 was to the Amazon Web Services sales kickoff in Chicago where I met Tackle.io We had a well-balanced agenda of business topics and time to (re)connect.

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3 Expert Tips on Building a Successful Partner Channel

Magnetrix

Generate business opportunities for partners. So if you as a vendor want to attract channel partners , then you must develop an investment prospectus. And then obviously, what will you do to support that business case? They are independent businesses.