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Learning KAM from big pharma

What can the pharmaceutical industry teach us about complex KAM? Consultant Frans van Schelven draws on his experience helping global pharma firms implement KAM in diverse healthcare systems. With customers ranging from prescribing doctors to integrated care systems and policymakers, pharma offers a model for tailoring your KAM strategy to varied decision-makers. This article explores…

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Rethinking Key Account Management

Why should your organisation rethink KAM? Expert Mark Davies explains why many traditional KAM practices fall short in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) market environment. He advocates a shift towards Value-Based KAM built on four critical building blocks — Offer Development & Innovation, Key Account Leadership, KAM talent, and Value-Based Strategy. Focus there…

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Customer-centric digital transformation in KAM

Prof Nima Heirati explores what it takes to lead a truly customer-centric digital transformation in KAM. With insights from Gartner and years of research into innovation, digitalisation and customer experience, he outlines the critical challenges facing B2B organisations today and how technology can help. Particularly useful is the distinction between technologies supporting the external customer…

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Embracing the silos

Silos are usually seen as the enemy of collaboration, but what if the real challenge is how we work WITH them, not against them? In this insightful session, Dr Hajo Rapp, Head of Strategic Account Management and Sales Excellence at TÜV SÜD, argues that silos, when understood and embraced, can actually strengthen the role of…

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How do mergers and acquisitions affect KAM?

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…

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Harnessing new technologies – The impact of emerging technologies on customer centricity

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…

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Fostering Connections: An ED&I Approach

Your key customer cares about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, so must you! Equality/Equity (do you know the difference?), Diversity and Inclusion isn’t just a ‘woke’ concept idea any more. The economic power of consumers and employees has made business care. It could be your organisation’s USP when all the other tender submissions look the same.…

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How to build winning relationships with Procurement.

Jens Hentschel represents the Procurement side of the KAM relationship. Having worked in the role for over 15 years, he is clear about what key customers expect – and it’s different from what most suppliers think. Did you know that Procurement assesses you constantly on your level of customer-centricity? In fact, they actually evaluate you…

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HIAB global offering

Hiab has a global manufacturing presence and serves customers across the globe. The company offers a broad range of on-road loading equipment and has achieved strong positions in its target market segments. Despite this, like in many other markets, the danger of commoditisation is very real, so in 2014 GKAM was introduced to counter the threat. The original focus was…

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Growing business by managing the customer experience

Delegates were really interested in what Michael Widing, Hiab’s Customer Experience and Insight Manager, shared about Hiab’s approach to measuring and managing the customer experience. He challenged allegedly customer-centric companies to demonstrate what action they had actually taken to achieve genuine customer centricity. His demonstration of the process to capture net promoter scores, understand the…

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