What is your personal experience with being a 'Design Partner' for a vendor? What was your motivation to become one? better pricing, influence the features, something else?

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It’s always preferred to have active collaboration with all stakeholders including vendors to build a great product. It was a tremendous learning experience for me. Motivation was simply to deliver best solution to customer

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I found that the main reason to act as a design partner has been being able to influence the partner's team composition - able to work with the &#34;A Team&#34;. As a result, higher quality delivery and better fit solutions have been deployed. The features developed quickly found their way into the product for others - which on one hand was great (no custom solution for us) but on the other hand had the potential to expose IP (solution that could have stayed a Trade Secret). Due to this risk/benefit, the pros & cons need to be weighted.

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Having input into product design is a key component to getting some thing that you want. Working with a vendor allows someone to tailor the product to ones needs you get a better product than something right off the shelf. It is time well spent in one will see ROI

What is your personal experience with being a "Design Partner" for a vendor? What was your motivation to become one? better pricing, influence the features, something else?

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