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Thoughts on prioritising time in a KAM career

Time is the major resource of Key Account Managers, but there never seems to be enough of it. Dr Beth Rogers explains why it’s so important to use it well in this instructive paper, which every Key Account Manager should read. Quoting Professor Peter Drucker, “Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of…

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Strategic partnership conversations: from supplier-customer to partnership

It’s hard to develop the business if your conversations with key customers are stuck at the sales/operations level. In this webinar, Dr Régis Lemmens explains how to develop an understanding of customer facts into real meaning that can drive a vision of what might be. You have probably taken all the available shortcuts to results…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Driving hyper growth – 1st AKAM Annual Conference

Conor O’Maley, Regional VP SMB at SalesForce in Ireland, presented the framework of processes, tools and behaviours used to manage their sales team. Their Account Management is based on combining a high focus on sales and a good customer experience to generate the customer’s loyalty. He focused on sales management and sales efficiency which, although they are…

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Interacting with global key accounts in large international markets – 2nd Annual AKAM Conference

Dr Nicolas Swetchine, Head of Key Account Management, LafargeHolcim & Research Fellow in ‘New Institutionalism’ offered lessons from KAM in large international projects which are also highly relevant to many suppliers. Some companies are so focused on short-term results that key account managers have difficulty in finding the time to keep continuous relationships with key accounts when there…

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Insights on tools and methods for selecting the right key customers – 2nd Annual AKAM Conference

The crucial job of selecting key accounts was addressed by Dr Marco Sisti of SDA Bocconi University in Milan. The idea of choosing key accounts according to size of their past sales with the supplier is regrettably still very common. There are definitely better ways of carrying out this all-important task, as this very practical presentation demonstrated.…

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Value creation and value propositions – 3rd Annual AKAM Conference

Everyone talks about Value in KAM but, according to Diana Woodburn, it is a misunderstood, misused and abused term. Value should appear explicitly in strategic key account plans, where the value to supplier and customer should be perfectly clear and differentiated – which, in practice, it rarely is. Suppliers have multiple sources of value available to them through…

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What do Key Accounts really value?

Do you want to move your customer relationship from “Supplier” to “Strategic Partner”? Do you really know what your accounts and customers “value” and how you can “add value” to them and grow your business at the same time? Do you struggle to differentiate your offer from the competition? Do you find your customers switching…

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Account Plans

Developing KAM structures: removing roadblocks and bottlenecks

Whatever KAM structure you decided to build in your organization, expect to face some bottlenecks and blockages. Don’t worry, you’re not the first! In this webinar, Dominykas Cibulskas will share real-life examples of what can happen when companies are building KAM organizations. His hints and advice might help you avoid similar problems in your KAM…

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The big issue of KAM performance and rewards

In this webinar, Diana Woodburn shares insight into different ways that organisations recognise KAM performance and its consequences. If you’re a KAM programme leader or HR professional, you need to consider whether your performance and reward scheme sends mixed messages and encourages unfortunate behaviour. If you’re a key account manager, you’ll want to coach your…

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Frameworks for putting KAM into action – 1st AKAM Annual Conference

Feedback from the March meeting requested a session on KAM frameworks and processes, presented here by Diana Woodburn, AKAM Chairman. She offered wide range of devices, most of which act first as diagnostics and then as decision-support tools and management action guides that convert into processes. Frameworks demonstrated included customer selection/categorisation, through risk assessment to key account prioritisation…

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