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Key Takeaways from SHIFT 2024

MDM’s marquee in-person event showcased change management case studies and insights for driving distribution forward. Here’s a quick debrief.

The industry’s generally slow adoption for AI may be at least partly contributed to misconceptions about the technology and its applications. This article helps set the record straight.

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MDM Podcast: Wesco Case Study Debrief

We chat with John Gunderson, who authored our three-part analysis series and subsequent case study report on Wesco’s recent and ongoing transformation as North America’s top electrical distributor.

MDM Editors Mike Hockett and Vesna Brajkovic analyze the immense value this year’s SHIFT conference provides; their biggest takeaways from the 2023 version; our 2024 agenda highlights; and why you should be there.

Wesco’s “all things digital” leader Akash Khurana joins us to discuss what digital transformation has meant for the electrical distributor, which ramped up its initiatives on that front upon its landmark 2020 acquisition of Anixter.

As a primer for MDM’s July 10 Virtual Sales Summit, this episode dives into the transforming landscape of distribution sales models and the deeper challenges that reps face in the marketplace today.