As a technology provider it is important to ensure you create a lasting relationship with your clients.
This should be a key part of your business strategy to ensure your clients are successful and your biggest advocates.
I had an opportunity to discuss this with a leading global accountancy firm and technology organisation this week.
My key points to ensure you create a successful relationship include:
- Ensuring your client is successful
- Create a partnership
- Accountability
- Delivering what you said you would and more
- Understanding the personal and business goals of your client
- Clear and agreed communication techniques
- Set realistic and agreed expectations
In the paragraph below Dimension Data highlight the requirements from both vendors and suppliers to create a positive partnership.
the development of a ‘partnership’ relationship between client and supplier, based on trust and focused on mutual business outcomes, is key to the success of the contract. This model requires organisations to adopt a new attitude toward service providers as strategic partners – not just as vendors from whom goods and services are procured, but as business partners with experience, skills and assets that can be harnessed to create competitive advantage. Service providers, in turn, must be prepared to work to better align their services and contracts to their clients’ unique needs.
