Annette Taber Posts

CompTIA’s Industry Advisory Councils convened recently with a stated goal – determining best practices for selling emerging technologies, including routes to market in the drone space and smart cities.

CompTIA Vice President Annette Taber examines what is – and, tellingly, isn’t – happening in the drone industry.

CompTIA is a true, member lead organization. Those tech industry professionals play a major role in driving initiatives and strategy, ensuring that the association focuses its resources on the right things at the right time. That’s how a trade association works. From the board of directors to peer community and advisory council chair positions, CompTIA members are leading the way. That was readily apparent at the recent meeting in Kansas City, MO where a large contingent of these industry professionals gathered to shape their groups' plans for 2017.

A word to the wise from the panelists; don’t rush things, take your time and ensure proper controls are in place. Gain early adopters, and use pilot programs to link these technologies to business success.

During CompTIA’s 2014 Council Planning Meeting in Miami last week, the Partner Advisory Council (PAC) shared three key issues. Cloud infrastructure’s impact on the data center and OEMs, and of course the impact on the product and service businesses of our partners. The impact of hosted apps and OSs on legacy premise environments. The consumerization of IT and its impact on resources, especially in the area of transforming existing product sales champions to trusted business architec ...