Papers and articles
KAM in the pharmaceutical industry
KAM is misunderstood and misapplied in big Pharma. An interview with Paul Wilson of Viatris
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Key account strategies
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Highly successful Key Account Managers
How are they recognised, what do they do? Identifying highly successful key account managers requires measurement of success resulting from their work rather than the luck of the market, i.e. not revenue, which is often a false indicator. Richard Ilsley explores the traits of highly successful account managers, such as willingness not only to embrace change, actively looking…
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Papers and articles
What makes a good key account manager?
In this article from Bulletin No. 3, Mike Green shares his personal experience gained as a key account manager and director in AMEX and RM Results. He identifies the competencies required in terms of communication/influencing skills; relationship management skills; and functional skills. Although the requirements may vary depending on the organisation’s KAM strategy, whether they…
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AKAM Workshops & Conferences
Can you still increase business with your key accounts? – 4th Annual AKAM Conference
When you already have a substantial share of the customer’s ‘wallet’, it’s easy to believe you’ve got everything possible. But Christian Maryska’s research casts serious doubt on that view. His deep dive into several key accounts identified very significant, untapped areas of business. Granted, every key customer has ‘locked’ areas, but he found growth potential…
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Webinar
What is the value of trust in key account relationships?
Does Value = profit = money? Or do human and social values matter too? What values are you seeking? What values is your counterpart or partner chasing? Are your values compatible, can you find some values that unite you? Has the recent crisis taught us that there is more to a successful business than the most direct…
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Webinar
Member Webinar Clinic
In this first of AKAM’s webinar ‘clinics’, Vice Chairmen Richard Ilsley of SMCG and Mike Green of Capita share their experience to answer questions sent in by members. Topics included more personal queries from individual Key Account Managers and big, thought-provoking questions from KAM programme directors. They covered: What are the best measures of success…
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Webinar
Key account journey mapping
This workshop will tackle what has been one of the most difficult tasks within the strategic account management profession, engaging a complex and always changing Key Account. A key learning point during this workshop will include how to navigate and engage your complex customer and effectively engage your cross-functional team to address all critical relationship touchpoints. This…
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Papers and articles
Steering the customer experience
Customer Experience Management (CEM) is a pragmatic way to help your organization become more customer centric through understanding and acting upon the customer’s needs. Michael Widing uses his 20 years’ experience to explain the 3-step process to debrief customer insights from the frontline and bring them straight back to all the support functions and top management. It’s very…
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Championing KAM: The Pfizer Center of Excellence
Pfizer recognized that an enterprise-wide shift would be required to address and evolve the structure of traditional sales, in order to create a more agile and innovative customer-centric approach via KAM, so it created its KAM Center of Excellence (CoE) to provide consistency in language and processes, support the business to build expertise and capabilities in KAM,…
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Measuring the success of Key Account Management
How do you know if you are doing the right things? KAM can deliver exceptional levels of growth for organisations, but to achieve it requires focus, investment and ongoing support. To maintain this backing, KAM needs to demonstrate strong progress in areas that link to the organisation’s goals and to paint a rich picture of opportunities. In…
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