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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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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

Equally important to the proper structure and people are the processes to identify and resolve quality concerns. With the right infrastructure, governance, and tools in place, we are able to help resolve real-time quality concerns. How technology is changing the way we work. Integration is hard. Be active listeners.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

They could no longer simply hire new employees to meet every new demand, but needed a more comprehensive and integrated approach that would optimize workforce speed, quality, cost and flexibility, and balance value and risk across the total talent investment. Greater strategic focus required a new workforce approach.