Papers and articles

Strategic customer/supplier partnerships

Too many suppliers have overused and abused the ‘partnership’ word, ultimately only offering a high-level sales relationship – not what customers expected and wanted. So many customers have become cynical about partnerships, and suppliers should only propose the approach if they genuinely mean it and know how to deliver it. This article by Richard Ilsley discusses what…

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Case Studies

Senior management involvement with key customers: 7 cases

It is often easier to discuss what you think about what other companies are doing to find a way to express and determine the approach you want in your own company. If you have a concern about top management involvement with key customers in your company, whether you are a director or key account manager,…

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Corporate KAM

A framework for global account management

AM has been around for three decades. For 30 years, large global vendors have been keen to develop privileged relationships with global customers, based on the promise to seamlessly deliver a similar offer and experience across the globe. Professor George Yip of Imperial College London, one of the first GAM ‘explorers’, pointed out that although the definition of…

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Competencies

Leadership in Global Account Management

Starting from her discovery that existing academic descriptions of leadership in global positions didn’t match the situation and requirements of global account managers, Dr Sylvie Lacoste set out to find an appropriate alternative. She incorporated different determinants – including the customer, which didn’t apply to other forms of global leadership – to apply to describe…

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Strategic customer/supplier partnerships

Senior management involvement with key customers: 7 cases

A framework for global account management

Leadership in Global Account Management

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