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How DHL implemented a vested outsourcing model for reverse logistics

This substantial presentation is a case study by Ruud de Groot of DHL, explaining how the collaborative approach taken by DHL in EMEA led to the implementation of a vested contract for reverse logistics designed to reward the achievement of specific operational goals. Through this contract DHL explored the use of Intel technology elsewhere in…

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KAM communications

Why Marketing is essential to KAM

There has been a long-running war between Sales and Marketing that is not only counter-productive in KAM but also hugely wasteful of an invaluable resource. Technology is/should be increasingly deployed in KAM, and Marketing has mastered digital communications that have a reach and currency that key account managers can’t achieve alone. Furthermore, marketing analytics can…

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The role of strategic orchestrator: the key account manager and senior management

This topic attracted a strong response! Over 40 key account managers, programme directors, academics and consultants hotly debated the issues that arise from the involvement of senior management in KAM. Is it essential? Basically yes: and Dr Lesley Murphy demonstrated research on why. Too often, senior managers seem to think they can simply give their approval…

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Sales director’s role in optimising your team’s potential

Too often, senior managers seem to think they can simply give their approval to KAM and leave it at that, which doesn’t work for many reasons. It isn’t what key accounts expect, for a start, and it leaves key account managers battling to get the commitment they need from the rest of the company to…

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Think big, act small

Armelle Dupont demonstrated the importance of objective, criteria-based account selection over the intuitive and often backward-looking selection applied by SMEs (and bigger companies too). The Loccioni story was told from the point of view of a key account manager, Mattias Bernhard, which highlighted a different selection and operating approach for only partly dedicated key account managers in a common SME…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Metrics in KAM

The role and importance of metrics was highlighted by Professor Patrick Godfrey of the University of Bath, who said “Measurement closes perception gaps and enables us to demonstrate the value we add.” This was the first of a new series of AKAM ‘Technical’ workshops or masterclasses which answer a demand from KAM professionals who want to…

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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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