HP Innovation Journal Issue 10: Fall 2018 | Page 50

Our world is being digitally transformed every day, and change is happening at a staggering pace. As our channel partners’ and customers’ needs evolve, HP is determined to invest in tools and training to meet and anticipate those needs. To accelerate into the future, every business will need to transform their operations—creating new business opportunities, new revenue streams and more engaged customers. At HP, we look to the global socioeconomic, demographic and technological trends shaping our world— Megatrends—to anticipate customer needs and create solutions that will drive digital transformation for our partners and their customers. By understanding the digital transformations shaping our world, HP can provide solutions, sales experiences and tools that enable partners to engage with their customers, anticipate their needs, and drive new business experiences. PUTTING PARTNERS FIRST We have one overarching objective that guides our decisions and actions: to satisfy partner needs in order to build sustainable customer and partner relationships. HP is redesigning processes to satisfy the digital needs of our partners and increase efficiency. MEETING PARTNERS WHERE THEY ARE Millennials and Generation Z (Gen Z) will make up the sales force of the future. Born between 1995 and 2010, Gen Z has not spent a day of their lives without the Internet, and they were practically born with smartphones in their hands. When it comes to technology, they are like millennials on steroids. Innovation Journal Issue Ten Today’s business environment is increasingly digital, mobile and connected, and millennials and Gen Z are driving a change in what defines work. They desire the freedom to work from just about anywhere. These generations are always on the go, and we’re constantly reinventing to ensure HP’s tools allow our partners to be efficient with their time so they can focus on their customers. The less time our partners have to spend on administrative tasks, the more time they can be effective with their customers. SEAMLESS SALES A core objective of our transformation at HP is to create integrated digital experiences for partners, HP sales representatives, HP operations and customers. HP has developed a suite of digitally focused sales tools and processes that work together in intuitive, powerful, experiential and mobile ways from beginning to end. We refer to these as the learn-to-earn continuum. Partners and HP sales representatives experience a fully connected ecosystem of tools, processes and resources to improve their ability to learn, plan, generate demand, transact and earn. The HP Sales Central platform can be accessed at http://www.hpsalescentral.com. HP’s data-driven approach gives sales representatives and partners intelligence at their fingertips and provides a seamless and differentiated sales experience for customers.