AKAM Workshops & Conferences

GAM attractions and challenges

Contrary common belief, GAM is not only for large corporations: it is also very relevant for medium-size businesses, as demonstrated brilliantly by the two other speakers of the day. John Bailey, Head of Global Accounts at Hiab, and Alistair Taylor talking about his experience at IMI both explained how the implementation of GAM became a game changer and transformation factor for their…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

The power of KAM as a change agent – 2nd Annual AKAM Conference

Karim Bennaziz Houmane, Global Head of Commercial Cards Sales, BNPParibas highlighted critical issues that have developed in KAM – deterioration of the relationship mode back to a transactional mode, circular conversations or the ‘continuous crisis’ mode and reduction of the KAM to problem solver. He introduced the idea of ‘double loop learning’ as a route to more…

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Frameworks for putting KAM into action – 1st AKAM Annual Conference

Feedback from the March meeting requested a session on KAM frameworks and processes, presented here by Diana Woodburn, AKAM Chairman. She offered wide range of devices, most of which act first as diagnostics and then as decision-support tools and management action guides that convert into processes. Frameworks demonstrated included customer selection/categorisation, through risk assessment to key account prioritisation…

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Papers and articles

Rewarding Key Account Management

Rewards tend to change behaviour and activity, as indeed is the intention. It is not clear, however, that rewards necessarily achieve the desired objective: in some cases, companies may be rewarding what would have happened anyway, or even generating negative and potentially damaging behaviour. Does ‘management by results’ work? Should key account managers be rewarded…

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Transitioning to KAM

GAM attractions and challenges

The power of KAM as a change agent – 2nd Annual AKAM Conference

Frameworks for putting KAM into action – 1st AKAM Annual Conference

Rewarding Key Account Management

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