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It’s hard to keep your eyes on the customer when you’re going through a Merger or Acquisition, when you’re not even sure if your job is safe. But it’s not much better if you emerge from the situation to discover but your customer has felt overlooked and unimportant and consequently defected to the competition. In…
This presentation takes a comprehensive look at the role of the key account manager, and the competencies (learnable skills) and attributes (values-driven behaviours) required to fulfil it. Different competencies and attributes may be dialled up or dialled down according to the maturity of the supplier and the nature of the key account, which should be…
This simple diagnostic focuses minds on what the key account really values versus what you and your competitors are offering. It helps to cut through undue optimism, unnecessary pessimism to objectively identify what is really important to the customer. And hence, whether your value proposition is relevant and strong, where it is good enough and…
Gwenola Ducamp of Vetropack and Matt Sankary of ShipMoney are key account managers in very different sectors – manufacturing and financial services – yet they share a lot of the same challenges. In this conversation they share their current issues, how they are approaching them and look at the future, especially the role of technology,…
Emotions are an integral part of the human experience and, as of now, humans are still involved on both sides of KAM relationships. Filoumena Zlatanou of Queen Mary university London presented her research with C level executives who see the impact of emotions in business, both positive and negative. It’s useful to acknowledge when emotions…
In this workshop, Dr Nima Heirati identified current issues in developing B2B customers from Gartner’s latest survey, foreseeing the roles that AI will play in the next five years. Are you are struggling to visualise where AI and all the other technology belong and what it can do for you and your customer? Nima’s maps…
New technology and AI are bringing more and more invaluable data from customers into KAM, as demonstrated by Dennis Chapman of the Chapman Group USA. But how do key account managers cope with the sheer quantity of information, never mind putting it to good use? Things are changing rapidly: smart companies have data analysts on…
This article summarises a longer paper on ‘Boundary spanner corruption: a potential dark side of multi-level trust in marketing relationships’ (also available in Member Resources here). These aren’t familiar terms to practitioners, but perhaps they should be – boundary spanner corruption is becoming an increasing threat in relationships between key account managers and their counterparts!…
What do you know about the ‘dark side’ of KAM relationships? For many years the authors of this research investigated and advocated the importance of trust in key supplier/customer relationships. But it’s not quite as simple as that. They define corruption as the ‘voluntary collaborative behaviour between individuals representing different organisations that violates their organisations’…
Account managers should know how to engage effectively with Legal – but equally, lawyers should understand your business and speak your language. In this webinar highly-experienced commercial lawyer Jeremy Newton of Codified Legal maps out how to make sure you have that kind of legal adviser and then work effectively with them, including managing the…
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