The New Mindset – Shift, Move or Bust

Wanna sell your MSP or VAR business? Now? The biggest shift in our industry is happening as we speak, between working from home, cloud, cyber...

Four Types Of Channel Partners

Roughly speaking, we could divide the current IT Channel into four main types. “I got this” type: These Channel partners have already invested and transformed their...

Current State of the Channel with Jay McBain

We have had the pleasure again to chat with Jay McBain, Chief Analyst at Canalys, on the current state of MSPs, with Jay providing...

Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending Forecast to Grow 2.4 Percent in 2017

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.5 trillion in 2017, a 2.4 percent increase from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. This growth rate...

Discussion with OSF Digital on its 2023 Omnichannel Retail Index

We interviewed Rich Siefert, Sr. Consultant, OSF Digital and Kathy Kimple,  Executive Director, Digital Strategy. OSF Digital, an award-winning provider of digital transformation services to companies...

Improving Success of Change Initiatives

The goal of change is to deliver whatever the desired outcome was that precipitated the change. No company implements a new software system just...

2025 Predictions from Canalys’ Jay McBain

Again this year, we interviewed Jay McBain, Chief Analyst – Channels, Partnerships & Ecosystems at Canalys about the past year and upcoming trends in the tech channel...

2019 Predictions from Forrester

Research shows that 70% of MSPs are looking for an exit in the next 5 years.  96% of them are not able to scale...

Top 10 things to know as we approach the end of 2023

At the recent Canalys conference in Palm Springs, California, I heard that by 2025, most channel decision makers will be millennials. It’s sort of obvious as...

AI, Tariffs, and GDPR: The Channel’s Triple Threat in 2026

Julian sat down with Randal Wark and Paolo Del Nibletto to discuss the business climate in 2025, addressing the unpredictability of tariffs and its effects on corporate decision-making....