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Dirk Beveridge: Business model evolution: Technology strategies

By Dirk Beveridge
Dirk Beveridge
September 17, 2018

Those distributors with the most relevant digital strategy, technology, and solutions will create sustainable and profitable businesses. The most successful distributors will provide digital solutions uniquely combining technology, expertise and business acumen. The pace of change brought upon by technology that ranges from data and analytics to artificial intelligence, augmented reality, robotics, autonomous vehicles, the Internet of Things, and more is constant and exponential. These technologies will be deployed by the most progressive distributors to deliver end-to-end digital solutions that profitably impact both the customers and their own businesses.

Access Dirk’s free Innovative Mindset assessment and receive a complimentary analysis that compares how you think and lead to the most innovative leaders in distribution at http://myinnovativemindset.com

 

This article was originally titled “Business Model Evolution #3: Technology Strategies” in the September 2018 print edition of Supply House Times.

KEYWORDS: American Supply Association branch distribution innovation

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Dirk Beveridge is the founder of UnleashWD, Executive Producer at We Supply America, President of the Beveridge Consulting Group, and Champion for the noble calling of distribution for over 37 years. He often speaks at company and association meetings to share his one-of-a-kind perspective on leadership, the future of wholesale distribution and how distributors are a Force for Good. Learn more about Dirk by visiting WeSupplyAmerica.net.

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