Three Simple Steps to Measuring Government Partner Performance
February 10, 2014 Leave a comment
by Skip Liesegang, Vice President, Channels
What is best way to measure partner performance? What is included in a good partner scorecard? Those are the two most frequently asked questions in the Government Channel Leadership Council (GCLC), a forum established by immixGroup to share best practices, information and ideas about the public sector IT market.
These questions are closely related. The first is the most important, because once you’ve answered it, the scorecard is just a way to provide metrics to measure success.
Measuring partner potential has always been tough, and my 25-plus years of managing channel partners has given me some basic ways to address this age-old question. Before we get to that, let’s take a quick journey back to the earliest days of partner performance metrics and the insights its evolution may hold for all of us.
