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Strategic Key Account plans and planning – AKAM Technical workshop, Lisbon, 2023

This AKAM Technical workshop (Lisbon, 2023) kicked off with the importance of strategic key account plans, arguably the most important thing a key account manager has to do. Which is at odds with the fact that they are commonly poor or even non-existent. So Dr Diana Woodburn explains how to construct the strategic key account…

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Strategic key account plans: format

There is a fair amount of work to do to produce a strategic key account plan – you don’t want to spend time trying to decide on a format. Use this downloadable tried and tested framework to communicate necessary information and plans in a logical and coherent form that anyone who needs to know in…

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Strategic key account plans: worksheets

Where/how do you start to write a strategic key account plan? First comes the collection and analysis of information, then interpretation and thinking, before creating strategies that will be powerful for your company and the customer’s business as well. These downloadable worksheets help you to digest and use what you know about the customer and come…

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Transitioning to KAM (1): the different phases of KAM development

Any organisation needs to take much the same actions to develop and establish key account management as any other. A ‘rough and ready’ assessment from internal sources can show far the company has progressed along the KAM transitioning curve, by identifying which essential actions for KAM development have been taken, and to what extent. Valuable…

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Transitioning to KAM (2): detailed audit and action checklist

This audit framework is aligned with the ‘quick and dirty’ checklist in ‘Transitioning to KAM (1), but shows more specific actions to bring all bases into line in your current position in KAM development, and shows you what to do next to move your organisation to where it wants to be. To understand the different phases of KAM development,…

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Securing key account growth in a competitive world

For many companies key accounts are or should be the ‘engine of growth’. Realising their potential is patchy, however, so Richard Ilsley and Alistair Taylor show why that is and how a KAM approach achieves such performance, validated through appropriate measurement.

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Corporate KAM

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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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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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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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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