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Companies frequently ask whether they have the right people for key account management (the answer is often ‘no’) and how they can tell if they are right people. In fact, the question should really be ‘What job do we want them to do?‘ If you start with the wrong job description, you are not likely to find…
Au sein d’une entreprise, la place des commerciaux responsables des comptes stratégiques, ou KAM, est toujours particulière. Ils ne sont pas présents dans toutes les entreprises, mais, quand c’est le cas, ils ont souvent plus d’autonomie que les autres et évoluent sur des projets de plus long terme. Il faut donc savoir définir leurs attributions…
Leadership is not optional for key account managers, explains Dr Diana Woodburn (AKAM Chairman), their customers want it, their KA team needs it, and their mission absolutely requires them to act as leaders internally, to gain the resources and decisions KAM implementation requires. But curiously, companies rarely send them on leadership development courses, despite the fact that they have one…
This article argues that training paths for key account managers should depend on the development stage of the organisation’s KAM initiative: simple and focused in companies starting a KAM initiative, but further enriched for companies with an established KAM programme. Either way, an ideal start point is an individual KAM Competencies Reference Framework and an…
This webinar was presented by Gintarė Bėtaitė, Partner Amrop Lithuania. It’s more important than ever for us to know what businesses want in a key account manager. Gintare’s session at our meeting in Vilnius ‘Key account managers ahead of the game – who are they?’ was very well-received and to the point, so we asked her for…
You are a skilled Key Account Manager with solid experience behind you and yet you haven’t had any objective way to demonstrate your competency to your current or potential employers. Until now! AKAM has developed the only independent Diploma in KAM The qualification can be respected globally because of AKAM’s professional independence Everyone we have…
It’s hard to develop the business if your conversations with key customers are stuck at the sales/operations level. In this webinar, Dr Régis Lemmens explains how to develop an understanding of customer facts into real meaning that can drive a vision of what might be. You have probably taken all the available shortcuts to results…
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…
Government advice and laws change on a daily basis, and nobody seems clear about what is advisory and what is compulsory. But now large parts of life have settled into a new shape, and business into new ways of conducting itself. The changes may be permanent or temporary, but anyway no-one has any idea of…
Below you can see the recorded webinar and view the presentation slides for the AKAM webinar ‘What can KAM and HR Management share about informal influencing?’. This webinar was presented with combined experience from Ramūnas Bagdonas, People and Engagement Head for Telia Lithuania, a leading Telco and IT provider, and Geoff Quinn, Director of KAM Centre of Excellence…
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