Arrow Electronics and OgilvyOne Worldwide Help IBM Business Partners Prepare For the Future with Strategic Business Planning.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- The Support Net Division of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ARW ARW Air Refueling Wing ARW Advanced Research Workshop ARW Associated Resume Writers ARW Army Ranger Wing (Irish Special Forces) ARW American Revolutionary War ARW Angle Random Walk ARW Aeroelastic Research Wing ), one of the largest value-added distributors of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) enterprise products and integration services, and OgilvyOne Worldwide, the direct marketing and strategy arm of Ogilvy and Mather, today announced the success of a collaborative program the two organizations and IBM use to assist IBM Business Partners in achieving key business goals. Arrow made the announcement from the IBM PartnerWorld 2005 Conference, running February 27-March 2, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center The Mandalay Bay Convention Center is one of the largest privately owned and operated convention centers in the world. The 1 million square foot facility is owned by MGM Mirage. It is attached to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and adjacent to the Mandalay Bay Events Center. in Las Vegas. According to OgilvyOne, several sessions have been completed with Arrow Business Partners, and as a result, partners have experienced success within the first year of participating in a session and have grown their customer base, market share, and increased revenues and profits. The program consists of a workshop led by OgilvyOne with participants from the Business Partner, Arrow and IBM. The final deliverable is a go to market actionable plan complete with financial modeling and measurements to gauge progress, a partner roadmap with IBM and channel alliances, and required resources to assist in generating leads and increased revenues. "All of Arrow's IBM Business Partners are eligible to participate in the program. Those looking to driving incremental revenue and profits, increase their speed to market and build near term, executable plans and actions to meet long-term strategic goals for growth are certainly the ones that will have the most interest in this offering," said Eric Williams, executive vice president, Support Net Division. "This session exceeded our expectations. It was exactly what we needed," said Ken Tucker, vice president of solutions, Rose International. "The session was comprehensive and really helped to crystallize crys·tal·lize also crys·tal·ize v. crys·tal·lized also crys·tal·ized, crys·tal·liz·ing also crys·tal·iz·ing, crys·tal·liz·es also crys·tal·iz·es v.tr. 1. our objectives as a new IBM Business Partner. It helped us understand the marketplace and the customers that we can begin targeting and how to differentiate ourselves as a strong system integrator and reseller. With help from the Ogilvy facilitators, we developed solutions to take to market and a plan on how to generate leads and close sales with the decision makers and influences. We also got an excellent understanding of the Arrow and IBM resources that are available to us and how to best engage them. With the help of the Ogilvy experience, Rose will be able to target market segments and generate sales more quickly." "The process helped us to create a strategic plan to deal with this ever-changing environment," said Leroy Hill Jr., president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Yorel Integrated Solutions. "The interaction of the entire group, IBM, Yorel, Arrow and OgilvyOne, provided insight and detail about doing business in our market that could not have been gained any other way. As a result, we have detailed a plan of attack for improving our market position and for penetrating new markets. I would highly recommend this workshop to any Business Partner who plans to be in business in five or more years." About OgilvyOne OgilvyOne is the largest direct marketing agency in the world with over 3,500 employees in 56 countries across the globe and $2.8 billion in annual billings. About the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) is a leading distributor of enterprise and embedded computing systems to resellers and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers in North America. Based in Englewood, CO, the group is comprised of four divisions that make up Enterprise Computing Solutions (Support Net, SBM SBM - Solution Based Modelling , MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Multimedia over Coax MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas MOCA Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) , Enterprise Storage Solutions) and OEM Computing Solutions, which serves complex and industrial OEM customers. Visit us at www.arrownacp.com. Arrow Electronics is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and computer products and a leading provider of services to the electronics industry. |
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