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Finastra: Building operations to create customer value

Finastra’s customers are mostly banks and other financial institutions, but the lessons apply to any organisation in a concentrated market. In this podcast Michael Sperger, Chief Operating Officer Americas Enterprise at Finastra, talks about the pivotal role of long-term enterprise relationships. Driven by an analytical understanding of how your own organisation and the customer create…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

AKAM Technical: Technology in KAM

There is plenty to be excited about in technologies applicable to KAM. But which ones are valuable and which might have you spending time feeding their voracious appetites for information when perhaps you should be using it on your customer? And which are helping you to new insights and which are over-the-top sledgehammers? Dr Olivier…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Impact of digital transformation and pandemic on KAM – 4th Annual AKAM Conference

Dr Deva Rangarathan, Professor at IESEG Business School explores the pandemic-driven but probably permanent changes in KAM and customer relationships. Developments in digitisation have transferred more influence on the buying decision to marketing, particularly the early stages. Key account managers should recognise that, welcome the change, adapt to it and work proactively with marketing to…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

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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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Account-based marketing – 3rd Annual AKAM Conference

Andrea Clatworthy, Head of Account Based Marketing, Fujitsu, has won numerous awards for ABM and its relative DBM (Deal-Based Marketing). She gave an invigorating presentation on the hot topic of the moment, simplifying the range of different definitions down to “Getting the right message to the right person at the right time”. The data provided gave invaluable insight…

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Webinar

Account Based Marketing in KAM: How does it work?

Mike Green and Kate Owen of Capita held a fascinating webinar on Friday 24th January 2020 for AKAM members, discussing: Is ABM just a cosmetic make-over of B2B marketing? Do Account-Based Marketers understand how one-to-few is different from one-to-many? How does ABM work with KAM? What do key account managers need to know about ABM? How should key account managers…

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Webinar

KAM in the Coronacrisis

Government advice and laws change on a daily basis, and nobody seems clear about what is advisory and what is compulsory. But now large parts of life have settled into a new shape, and business into new ways of conducting itself. The changes may be permanent or temporary, but anyway no-one has any idea of…

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Webinar

Virtual Meetings: how to promote effective business relationships with key customers

This webinar was presented by Cristina Mariani, Alinea Training and consulting. Over the last few months, everyone has been thrown into meeting customers via Zoom etc. Most of us would rather be seeing customers face-to-face but, even when we return to the ‘new normal’, face-to-face visits are likely to be severely curtailed. Both supplier and customer companies…

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Papers and articles

Relationship lessons for KAM in extraordinary times

Dominykas Cibulskas in Lithuania looks at current events and what they mean for business and KAM. He is clear that ignoring reality or staying neutral is not an option: indeed, some companies have already fallen in the conflict of human v business values. Whatever is done -or not done – it is observed by customers and…

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Papers and articles

Inhuman relationships

While you should have good relationships with your customers’ people, of course, there are other kinds of relationship important in KAM: Gadde and Snehota’s research identified three layers. In this short article, Diana Woodburn argues that investment in human relationships in KAM is a means to an end, not a result itself. Good relationships can get you…

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