With a long history of selling technology to government, GTSI’s sales process was built on the classic model of leveraging relationships and taking orders via phone and fax. To improve GTSI’s profitability and scale its sales force, this $1 billion reseller recognized it required a comprehensive new e-business strategy to reinvigorate the channel's contribution to its bottom line. After assessing the root causes for the business unit's chronic underperformance, we developed a strategic roadmap making e-commerce an essential tool in selling more goods and services as well as serving existing customer relationships more efficiently than ever before. With our direction, GTSI slashed the order-to-ship cycle from 32 to 5 days, generated an astonishing 900% increase in e-commerce revenues and shifted the channel's percentage of total sales from 1% to 65% freeing GTSI's sales organization to focus on larger, more strategic solution selling.
Initiatives & Selected Projects:
e-Business Strategy
Developed multi-faceted e-business strategy designed to shift larger percentage of sales through migration of existing business to lower cost e-commerce channel.
e-Business Product Commercialization
Led creation of four new e-Business offerings emphasizing replicable functionality to meet the demands of the government procurement community.
Product Roadmapping
Developed comprehensive multi-year prioritization for future functional improvements to bring GTSI on par with leading e-commerce competitors.
GTSI.Com Redesign
To facilitate migration of customers to the Web, we led the redesign of the company’s web site to improve design, information architecture and functionality.
Supply Chain Analysis and Improvements
Initiated analysis and suggested redesign of company’s supply chain processes and systems to reduce order-to-ship cycle by five days.
Intranet
Deployed new Intranet for organization using Microsoft technology to distribute publishing to employees and improve integration with enterprise applications.
E-Mail Programs
Developed segmented, opt-in e-mail program with emphasis on GTSI’s new go-to-market strategy of leading with IT solutions rather marketing technology products on price.