Podcasts
Technology-Driven KAM Evolution
Is your Key Account Management ready for the digital era, or getting left behind? Christian Calcagni, Strategic Advisor at Rocket.Chat, explains why embracing new technology
Developing KAM programmes
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Podcasts
Why training fails
Richard Ilsley and Olivier Riviere, highly experienced trainers themselves, discuss how and why training often doesn’t work. In part it may be because what it is supposed to deliver hasn’t been defined, no objectives have been set. But should those objectives be hardwired to the commercial targets of the organisation, or should they represent intermediate…
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Papers and articles
The road to successful KAM roll-out
As anyone who has done it will know, the road to introducing KAM is not smooth or easy but implementing KAM can deliver major growth and the highest levels of customer loyalty to those that get it right. Dominykas Cibulskas offers some wise words on how to make sure that you do get it right,…
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Key account strategies
Why KAM fails Pt. 2
Richard Ilsley and Olivier Rivière agree that focusing solely on revenue is a pitfall, and discuss the power of setting clear alternative goals that involve every corner of the company. They explore the essential need for clarity in organizational goals, effective measures, and a shift from short-term pressures to long-term success. Uncover the strategies to…
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Video Views
Getting started on Key Account Management
Dr Olivier Rivière (AKAM Board Member) explains that successful KAM introductions rest on three ‘pillars’: KAM infrastructure – which means the specific processes that will enact KAM – Key Account teams, and Key Account plans. Key Account Managers don’t achieve much on their own, so KA teams should be selected and enabled from the beginning, which is sadly often not the…
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AKAM Workshops & Conferences
Creating Customer Loyalty: From Business Development to Key Account Management – 2nd Annual AKAM Conference
Caroline Hondre, Group General Manager, Customer Engagement, International SOS, leading worldwide medical and travel security assistance firm, described her role and experience in setting up her company’s account management programme. Customer facing roles were redefined, the process and criteria for lead handling and development changed, and new principles and ways of learning were introduced with a Key…
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Papers and articles
Changing the culture for KAM
Is KAM a strategy or a culture change? It’s both! But while it may get conscious attention as a corporate strategy, the culture change required is often overlooked. Often really contradictory cultural norms continue to prevail unchecked: e.g. like a constant focus on short-term results, or concerns about being ‘it can do the cleaners’ by…
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Diagnostics and tools
Organisational fitness for KAM: litmus test
Is the company itself fit for KAM? Key account managers cannot deliver KAM on their own – the organisation has an important role to play in KAM, so it must also have the competencies/capabilities needed to fulfil that role. A high-level litmus test of appropriate capabilities is a good starting point for discussion of the extent to…
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AKAM Workshops & Conferences
Driving hyper growth – 1st AKAM Annual Conference
Conor O’Maley, Regional VP SMB at SalesForce in Ireland, presented the framework of processes, tools and behaviours used to manage their sales team. Their Account Management is based on combining a high focus on sales and a good customer experience to generate the customer’s loyalty. He focused on sales management and sales efficiency which, although they are…
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Papers and articles
Terminology Matters
What is a KAM team? You may be perfectly clear, but do your colleagues and your customers agree? AKAM’s Forum of KAM programme leaders identified four different group of people, all called ‘the KAM team’. Which means that you can have been talking about the team completely at cross purposes with someone who sees it very differently.…
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