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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Key account management and customer value in the era of sustainability – 1st AKAM Annual Conference

Many industrial firms have moved from products to offering bundled products and services, redefining the notion of customer value, which is no longer about fulfilling predefined needs but exploring issues with the customer and defining the best answer. Professor Jakob Rehme (Linköping University, Sweden) explained how this approach requires a major change in terms of Account…

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KAM in the Coronacrisis

Government advice and laws change on a daily basis, and nobody seems clear about what is advisory and what is compulsory. But now large parts of life have settled into a new shape, and business into new ways of conducting itself. The changes may be permanent or temporary, but anyway no-one has any idea of…

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7 Covid-driven supplier risks your customer didn’t plan for – Why KAMs need to know

The COVID-19 outbreak is causing the biggest disruption in decades to economies and businesses across the world. State of Flux 12 years of global annual research into supplier management best practices shows that most organisations are significantly exposed when it comes to supplier risk management, specifically pandemic risks. And while procurement and supply chain organisations…

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Sustainability and Ethics in KAM

-What type of company do we want to be? -Is there a business case for sustainability? -Are we really focusing on the Key Accounts for the future, or are our Key Accounts yesterday’s news? Recent times have made obvious the issue of sustainability as an enormously important aspect for companies and management. This has also…

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Papers and articles

Sustainability

Sustainability is the buzzword everywhere but it seems to mean very different things to different people in different places. Often it is not even a single issue (see the list in this article), so the combination of aspects that makes up each corporate’s definition of sustainability is really variable – and volatile, as external events…

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Relationship lessons for KAM in extraordinary times

Dominykas Cibulskas in Lithuania looks at current events and what they mean for business and KAM. He is clear that ignoring reality or staying neutral is not an option: indeed, some companies have already fallen in the conflict of human v business values. Whatever is done -or not done – it is observed by customers and…

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The future of Key Account Management

Is key account management still the right thing to do with major customers? The business environment has suffered several shocks in the past few years, and ways of doing business need to respond: sometimes business models have to be reconfigured. How should/will KAM change in the next few years? Dr Beth Rogers considers the future…

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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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