Editorial Features list

Comms Dealer continues to provide engaging and aspirational editorial content, including strategic insights and educational takeaways, designed to help our readers move forwards confidently with a strategic advantage.

In 2022, advances in technology and changing work patterns will continue to force long-term strategic changes and behaviours across private and public sector organisations that should be facilitated and underpinned by the expertise of ICT service providers. Therefore it is time for many resellers to revise strategies, develop operational resilience, reconsider approaches to market and how they can make a supercharged shift towards gaining a long-term strategic advantage.

Comms Dealer magazine's 2022 Leadership and Benchmarking Board

advantage theme in 2022 is structured to provide insights and educational takeaways that will help to develop that much needed survive and thrive factor...

The Leadership series of business focused reports will be augmented by Benchmarking editorials on key product and service categories that support the development of a competitive edge. Comms Dealer will also feature a number of immersive Channel Forecast Round Table/Insight Sessions.

2022 Leadership and Benchmarking Board

January

• Leadership: Priorities and objectives - what's top of mind this year? And what are your primary investment areas? Give us some insight into your checklist.
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in the run up to 2025 and beyond

February

• Leadership: Strategically, what did you learn from lockdown? And are you a better director post-pandemic?
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in analytics

March

• Leadership: Is it time to think differently about diversity and inclusion?
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in Billing

April

• Leadership: Business innovation and effective leadership go hand in hand? What are your primary innovation focus areas this year, and has Covid catalysed a surge in innovation? What does this mean? And what's the difference between business innovation and adaptation?
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in CCaaS

May

• Leadership: Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace - how are you leading the charge on employee wellbeing, and building a health-promoting workplace?
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in Mobile and IoT

June

• Leadership: How are you future proofing your business, and what is the rationale behind each strand of your strategy? What challenges do you expect to face, and how will you overcome them? Ultimately, what is your biggest long-term opportunity and ambition?
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in UCaaS

July

• Leadership: Mind the gap – Where are the gaps in your business, and how do you plan to fill them?
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in security

August

• Leadership: Have you launched climate control initiatives? Where did you start and what were the challenges? For those businesses yet to get going on sustainability, what are the easy actionable steps that organisations can take towards creating a greener world?
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in remote working

September

• Leadership: Risk averse? What are the biggest business risks you face this year? And how does your strategy reflect the balance between risk and reward?
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in full fibre

October

• Leadership: Enhancing productivity -  What procedures and practices have you adopted to boost productivity? How do you measure your productivity performance, and where does organisational behaviour and culture fit into this. What are your top tips for creating a better workforce?
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in audio

November

• Leadership: Women on boards – how much progress is being made? Are you tackling the lack of diversity on all-male boards? How are you taking a lead on the issue of increasing female representation at the top?
• Benchmarking M&A trends in the channel

December

• Leadership: Realising the value of Non-Executive Directors. Are NEDs key to the success of an ambitious boardroom? What benefits has your NED brought to your business? And how did you identify the best fit Non Exec?
• Benchmarking markets, innovations, applications and opportunities in AI

Channel Forecast – Online Editorial Round Tables

Representatives from the channel’s leading vendors and solution providers, join our editorial team to discuss a range of subjects. The session is recorded and shared with our readership and forms the basis of a follow-on feature article. Subjects for 2022…

• Targeting 2025: Creating the right foundations for all-IP
• Full on for full fibre: And what it means to you
• Inclusion and diversity: How far has the channel come?
• Rethinking mobile: Why it's catalysing the interconnected future, and why you should start strategising now
• Sustainability: How prepared are you for the net zero world?

Also in 2022... our usual series of Comms Dealer business/executive interviews and profiles, more Round Table/Insight Sessions and deep dive industry reports.