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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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Webinar

Integrating Functions Through KAM

This webinar will explore your role as a relationship manager in the supply chain. You need to be an orchestrator of your company’s functions to meet the range of customer demands that add value to their business! That may involve your supply chain operations, procurement, returns management, accounting – even third parties. Simon Templar…

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Aligning your objectives with Procurement

You will create more joint value and build longer-term relationships if you can align your objectives with Procurement’s. Going head-to-head is NOT inevitable, nor is it a winning strategy! Who are Procurement clients and what is our relationship with them? What are Procurement clients’ undisclosed objectives? Pushing beyond the perception that all Procurement want…

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Dublin airport toolkit – 1st AKAM Annual Conference

At Dublin Airport KAM is driven not by single Key Account Managers but by a team of Key Account Managers, each of them being an expert of his/her field and coordinating a complex set of interactions with their counterparts on the airline side. Edel Redmond, Head of B2B Marketing, emphasised the importance of clarity in roles and…

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Key account management and customer value in the era of sustainability – 1st AKAM Annual Conference

Many industrial firms have moved from products to offering bundled products and services, redefining the notion of customer value, which is no longer about fulfilling predefined needs but exploring issues with the customer and defining the best answer. Professor Jakob Rehme (Linköping University, Sweden) explained how this approach requires a major change in terms of Account…

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Key Customer Relationships

Andrea Dori’s industry has also changed out of all recognition in the last few years. At one time, Illycaffè simply sold excellent coffee, but now, in addition to having extended its product and brand range, the company sees itself as participating in the hospitality industry. Whereas once it sold on the basis of quality, consistency…

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How to stay successful in long-term customer relationships: A case study from the automotive sector

Andrea Busnelli, Client Director Automotive Industry IBM, highlighted the importance of customer relationships, particularly when industries are changing fast, which so many are these days. He was even prepared to admit that IBM hadn’t always got it right, so had some valuable suggestions about how to avoid falling into that trap, such as proactively transforming…

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Value solutions and key account management

Emerging from this meeting was a strong focus on how value is created. Dr. Antonella La Rocca, Associate Professor at Rennes School of Business in France, gave an overview of research in the area and then identified, from her own work, two almost diametrically opposed profiles of key account managers, typified as X and Y. X is more…

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KAM Matrix: Pills for creating value in KAM

Carlos Ferrer Sotillo, BT Global Sales Director, delivered a presentation full of 28 inspirational ‘pills’. Drawing on a wide range of rousing and thoughtful messages, he challenged participants to take a handful of specific pills and use them to find ways of adding customer value. The audience was indeed inspired, and produced outputs ranging from…

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