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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

AKAM Technical: Creating Customer Value Through Design Thinking

This workshop addressed some of the practical issues encountered in developing key customer value, considering what is value and what is not in the all-important eyes of the customer. Richard looked at why/how value is problematic but demonstrated that investing time to get it right can pay huge dividends. The workshop learned about: The core lessons…

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Value creation and value propositions – 3rd Annual AKAM Conference

Everyone talks about Value in KAM but, according to Diana Woodburn, it is a misunderstood, misused and abused term. Value should appear explicitly in strategic key account plans, where the value to supplier and customer should be perfectly clear and differentiated – which, in practice, it rarely is. Suppliers have multiple sources of value available to them through…

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Bipolar KAM – 3rd Annual AKAM Conference

Almut Ringlben, Account Director and Florian Heidecke, Chief Client Officer of Namics AG were deliberately controversial in challenging delegates to consider the bipolar nature of KAM in many companies. They identified nine areas where two KAM approaches could be diametrically opposed to each other, and yet exist in the same organisation at the same time. It begs the question of…

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Account-based marketing – 3rd Annual AKAM Conference

Andrea Clatworthy, Head of Account Based Marketing, Fujitsu, has won numerous awards for ABM and its relative DBM (Deal-Based Marketing). She gave an invigorating presentation on the hot topic of the moment, simplifying the range of different definitions down to “Getting the right message to the right person at the right time”. The data provided gave invaluable insight…

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What makes KAM programmes fail? – 3rd Annual AKAM Conference

Failure of the KAM programme is not often considered by suppliers setting out on such an initiative. By exposing his findings on situations where KAM has not been successful, Cedric Roesler caused a great deal of alarm among delegates and challenged them to examine whether their KAM programmes fell into any of his five failure scenarios. He showed…

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Finance and Forecasting for key account managers

Professor Joseph Coughlan of Maynooth University used these slides in his masterclass for an AKAM Technical session designed to help key account managers better understand critical financial issues encountered in KAM, build financially-sound business cases, make good decisions, and learn to discuss money issues with customers and finance people. There’s lot to learn!

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How to win with Procurement

Key account managers often fail to understand the customer’s buying journey and Procurement’s role in it. Jens Hentschel of Fivis uncovered Procurement’s perfectly legitimate questions and anxieties, showing that price is far from being the most important of them. Trying to avoid Procurement is a really bad idea – much better to understand and build…

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Key Account Managers are from Mars, Purchasers are from Venus

Purchasers/Procurement have grown increasingly important for customers, but supplier key account managers continue to fail to understand how its strategic concerns, requirements and acquisition processes differ from traditional buying. Innovation, risk, dependency, compliance, cost savings and responsiveness are as – or even more – important than price. Dr. Bert Paesbrugghe of IESEG School of Management…

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The Key Customer point of view

Graham Bellman was Travis Perkins Fleet Director for 20 years. His slides were just a backdrop to his reflections on customer – supplier relationships. Most of his requirements related to efficiency, durability and longevity, user acceptability and compliance – price took a backseat compared with total lifetime cost of ownership and operation. Key account managers…

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Enhancing KAM through collaboration 💻

Truly exploiting the benefits of Key Account Management has to be based on changing the dynamics of the relationships with clients to a more holistic engagement. Collaborative approaches broaden the capability of organisations to respond to (pull) or propose (push) more complex propositions to meet the demands of the market or specific challenges. All too…

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