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The Sales Role Multinationals Need in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

When we surveyed over 160 global executives, we found that companies who hired a dedicated channel manager to manage their third-party distribution relationships within the last five years reported a 11.1% This means that distributors are nearly always undermanaged vis-à-vis direct sales when the manager has a dual mandate.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

They cannot chart a future course based on a wide-eyed search for external growth: “There’s an attractive, adjacent market. In a messy, incoherent world, those companies that can look through a capabilities lens set a straighter and more sustainable course and avoid costly missteps. Let’s go after it.”

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How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business Review

The sooner firms have a Brexit plan, the faster they can focus on managing these competitive dynamics. This group should represent a variety functions within the organization exposed to Brexit: supply chain, channel managers, procurement, marketing, sales, public affairs, governance, and financial controlling, among others.