CompTIA Community Events

CompTIA have great things planned for the channel community over the coming weeks to round out 2018. We have a Webinar on October 17th, a Community Meeting on November 14th in Sydney and a Meetup in Melbourne on November 13th. All great events that we are sure you will benefit from attending. The webinar topic is … Continued

The Biggest MSP Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Today there are a significant number of partners in the market that made the leap to becoming Managed Service Partners (MSPs) and have been running successfully for some time. While we have seen so much about what a services business model needs to do to be successful, nothing is more powerful than hearing from successful … Continued

How to Develop Ideas for Thought Leadership Articles

Along with being a ‘Trusted Advisor’, we often hear about people or organisations being ‘Thought Leaders’. It is the individual thought leaders that help create the perception of an organisation being thought of a thought leader. If you think about it, you usually assign this label to people that you read content from or hear … Continued

CompTIA July Community Meeting and Meetup Wrap

The 10th CompTIA ANZ Channel Community meeting was held in Sydney on July 25th and the very first MeetUp was held in Melbourne on July 24th. Discussion topics at the Sydney meeting centred on cybersecurity as well as emerging opportunities for channel businesses. The guest speaker was Roger Heyes, business information security officer, Equifax A/NZ. … Continued

A Sydney Meeting and a Melbourne MeetUp

July is a busy month for CompTIA here in ANZ. Not only are we hosting a Sydney Community meeting on July 25 but we are also holding our first MeetUp in Melbourne on July 24th. For the Sydney meeting we have made some adjustments to our usual format based on feedback from you, our community … Continued

How The Cult of the KPI Has Damaged Our Moral Compass

Going hand in hand with sales incentives are KPIs or Key Performance Indicators. I am confident everyone reading has been given a set of KPIs during their working life, all with the goal of driving certain behaviours that help get you to a particular outcome. It seems however that just like sales incentives, under certain … Continued

Wells Fargo and The Slippery Slope of Sales Incentives

Incentives are common place among sales teams, used to drive specific behaviours and or sales figures for an organisation. They can however very easily, go very wrong. The Wells Fargo case is a well publicised example of incentives going very wrong with many of the employees and the company paying the price. So how and … Continued

Why the Secret to Success is Setting the Right Goals

With such a focus on Incentives, KPIs and behaviours this month in our articles, when I stumbled across this recent TED talk by John Doerr, I thought it was too interesting not to share. John discusses the concept of OKRs (objectives and key results), rather than KPIs, and how they are a powerful tool in … Continued