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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Key account teams: the road to success – 1st AKAM Annual Conference

Rainer Schroeder, Global Account Manager ABB Semiconductors (based in Germany), insisted that a ‘lone wolf’ approach to the KAM job is bound to fail in a complex environment. The Global Account Manager, as director of the orchestra, must be able to form a virtual team to work with him/her and be very specific on the contribution and…

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Papers and articles

Are you offering a genuine partnership or just rebranding sales?

How much have you really changed your thinking around and approach to your key customers? Is it still fundamentally the same, an intense glare from Sales that goes no further along the value chain and fails to involve other managers in either organisation? Are you actually developing value for your customer as well as your company – because you will get…

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Papers and articles

Stuck on your KAM journey?

KAM means launching a transformation program to change behaviors, capabilities and priorities across most functions. So what perspectives and frameworks would be most helpful for commercial leaders aiming to launch or improve their key customer management? Steve Sienkiewicz of Accelerate Consulting suggests that KAM ought to be viewed as three-stage journey through a series of transformations – Align, Advance and Accelerate – and details…

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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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Diagnostics and tools

Frameworks for designing and assessing performance & reward schemes

Performance and reward schemes are notoriously tricky. Instead of stimulating the action and behaviour you want, they can just as easily act as a deterrent, especially in KAM, which is more complex and involves more people than Sales. Three frameworks are presented here to use as tools to help you develop the right scheme. The first…

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Diagnostics and tools

Transitioning to KAM (2): detailed audit and action checklist

This audit framework is aligned with the ‘quick and dirty’ checklist in ‘Transitioning to KAM (1), but shows more specific actions to bring all bases into line in your current position in KAM development, and shows you what to do next to move your organisation to where it wants to be. To understand the different phases of KAM development,…

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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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Papers and articles

KAM team talk

By KAM team we don’t mean your organisation’s bunch of key account managers!. In KAM’s challenging environments it is widely accepted that to win and grow business, suppliers need strong internal teamwork – how do we know? Because key customers tell us, all the time. But many key account programmes focus on account selection, strategies, value propositions…

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Papers and articles

A bibliometric analysis of extended key account management literature

This illuminating analysis by internationally renowned Professors Kumar, Sharma and Salo defines the scope of KAM: selection of key or strategic accounts, team structures, coordination with other functions, and a deeper level of relationship within the organization and with the KAM customer’s firm. It also demonstrates how KAM is distinct from traditional sales research, relationship marketing, and sales…

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Papers and articles

Comment accompagner ses KAM sur des projets internationaux?

Les responsables de comptes stratégiques, encore plus que les autres commerciaux, ont souvent une dimension internationale dans leur mission. Face à la complexité des grands projets internationaux et des relations interculturelles, les responsables commerciaux peuvent aider leurs équipes. Comment prendre en compte la complexité d’un projet, construire sa légitimité, identifier les interlocuteurs cibles? Nicolas Swetchine/Aude…

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