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What do strategic customers want?
Former Travis Perkins Fleet Director (‘everything and anything with wheels!’) Graham Bellman, shares his views on supplier management, good KAM and strategic partnerships. Relationships are important but it’s what comes out of them that really matters: trust, performance, support when needed and practical innovations. Contrary to what a lot of key account managers think, price…
Don’t talk to Procurement!
But not talking to Procurement is a big mistake. They have been given a job their company wants them to do: protecting their company, its resources, stakeholders, and customers. So they cannot just suppliers as much as they would like to. In this article Jens Hentschel tells you exactly why each of nine common ‘sales…
A buyer’s view of KAM
How well you understand your customer’s buyer, sitting across the desk. Do you appreciate the importance of their role internally and what they need from you be able to fulfil that role? Becky Barnes has some clear messages for key account managers, like ‘Trust is more important than personality’ and ‘Honour your customer’s time: it’s…
Achieving account-based growth
Apply Pareto’s 80/20 rule repeatedly and you’ll find the top 3.5% of accounts deliver 50% of revenue So are those customers receiving exceptional attention in your company? Bev Burgess and Tim Shercliff share key messages from their book ‘Account-based growth: Unlocking sustainable value through extraordinary customer focus’ . Plus and insights for suppliers from Ninian…
HIAB global offering
Hiab has a global manufacturing presence and serves customers across the globe. The company offers a broad range of on-road loading equipment and has achieved strong positions in its target market segments. Despite this, like in many other markets, the danger of commoditisation is very real, so in 2014 GKAM was introduced to counter the threat. The original focus was…
A case in collaboration: KAM EMCOR UK
When EMCOR UK’s Facilities Management division decided its future lay in longer contracts with larger clients, it reckoned that collaboration would be the USP to capture it. Collaboration isn’t just a mindset, it’s a process as well, and collaboration and KAM have to be more than ‘skin deep’, says Steve Dolan, EMCOR UK’s Operations Director…
KAMs ahead of the game – who are they?
In case anyone was in any doubt about what is required in a key account manager, Gintarė Bėtaitė’s experience as a recruiter with Amrop Executive Search enabled her to make the expectations very clear. And the answer is – hopefully no surprises to any AKAM member – that it’s not about sales history. Companies are looking for…
Growing business by managing the customer experience
Delegates were really interested in what Michael Widing, Hiab’s Customer Experience and Insight Manager, shared about Hiab’s approach to measuring and managing the customer experience. He challenged allegedly customer-centric companies to demonstrate what action they had actually taken to achieve genuine customer centricity. His demonstration of the process to capture net promoter scores, understand the…
Change in procurement: the role of KAM
Kevin Wilson from Kedge Business School addressed the issue of change in public procurement and reviewed the impact of the 2014 EU directive on procurement in Europe in general, and upon the UK in particular. The general conclusion was that the new regulations, adopted by the UK in 2015, are largely positive and offer enlarged…
