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Women of the Channel: 2007 Business Resolutions

By Gayle Kesten, CRN
December 20, 2006    1:34 PM ET

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No doubt, VARBusiness' 50 Most Powerful Women of the Channel plan to carry their successes -- and add more -- into the new year. So we posed the question to them: What is your business resolution for 2007? Perhaps a change in your company's offerings, a new strategy to improve partner relationships, better benefits for your employees or a change in your own management style?

This is what they told us.

Anna McDermott, president and CEO of Access Distribution
For the past three years, I've been anticipating increased consolidation in the channel and the immeasurable impact it can have on our market. We've been watching this wave of consolidation pass through vendors and resellers, and now Access itself has become an example of consolidation in the distributor category and the powerful effect it will have on this market.

Even as consolidation challenges companies to evolve and meet the dynamic needs of their markets, those same forces offer new opportunities. My business resolution for 2007 is to embrace change as an agent of business evolution. As we manage the integration of Access Distribution into Avnet Technology Solutions and emerge as a distribution powerhouse that provides even more value to our customers and partners, we are all resolving to demonstrate that change is good. Change creates new opportunities and challenges that benefit everyone by disrupting the status quo and forcing all of us to examine the evolving market opportunity and how best to take advantage of it.




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