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Focusing Key Account Management through collaboration

Truly exploiting the benefits of Key Account Management has to be based on changing the dynamics of the relationships with clients to a more holistic engagement. Collaborative approaches broaden the capability of organisations to respond to (pull) or propose (push) more complex propositions to meet the demands of the market or specific challenges. All too…

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Buyers/ buying

The role of deals and business networks in innovation processes

Per Ingvar presented a case study on innovation focusing on networks that facilitate the process. The case traces the invention and eventual commercialisation of Transchateter Aortic Valve Implants over a period from 1989-2014. The role of KAM increases in potential towards the end of the commercialisation process, reflecting the dynamics of supplier-user interaction and the…

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Successful service infusion

Dr Nima Hierati of Queen Mary University, London distinguished between product-focused services (like maintenance, guarantees etc) and customer-focused services (e.g. financing, cooperative marketing). Manufacturers seem generally focused on the former and often neglect the opportunities offered by the latter.

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Key account customers

A case study in influencing

Is this a case study in influencing and gaining great business or an example of taking advantage of a customer with a problem? When a key customer had an aborted product launch and needed emergency chilled storage for perishable products, Girteka was able to help – but at over twice the going rate! The customer…

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The role of strategic orchestrator: the key account manager and senior management

This topic attracted a strong response! Over 40 key account managers, programme directors, academics and consultants hotly debated the issues that arise from the involvement of senior management in KAM. Is it essential? Basically yes: and Dr Lesley Murphy demonstrated research on why. Too often, senior managers seem to think they can simply give their approval…

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Co-creation of value is the key to successful KAM – 4th Annual AKAM Conference

Siemens has long been considered a leading exponent of KAM/GAM. In this session, Bjarne Lykke Sørensen, CEO Siemens Denmark, describes the challenges and opportunities in dynamic, fast developing business environments and how they will be addressed by supplier/ customer/ partner ecosystems. Key account managers need to grow into their crucial roles in these networks. Bjarne…

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Think big, act small

Armelle Dupont demonstrated the importance of objective, criteria-based account selection over the intuitive and often backward-looking selection applied by SMEs (and bigger companies too). The Loccioni story was told from the point of view of a key account manager, Mattias Bernhard, which highlighted a different selection and operating approach for only partly dedicated key account managers in a common SME…

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Finance

Which KAM relationships matter most? – 4th Annual AKAM Conference

Business is not democratic and there’s no doubt that some relationships are more important than others. Jerid Lydic of Pfizer KAM Center of Excellence in the US amply demonstrates why and what they should imply. “Relationships incur costs to develop and manage…so they should be treated as an investment and … productive.” But the key…

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