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Developing value from strategic relationships.

Michael Winslow has a huge experience in Procurement, including several mega global players. In this webinar he offers a number of models that are tremendously useful to both customers and suppliers: for example, on different levels of trust; selection of key suppliers and their potential contribution to the customer’s business; partner relationships and how they…

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Don’t talk to Procurement!

But not talking to Procurement is a big mistake. They have been given a job their company wants them to do: protecting their company, its resources, stakeholders, and customers. So they cannot just suppliers as much as they would like to. In this article Jens Hentschel tells you exactly why each of nine common ‘sales…

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A buyer’s view of KAM

How well you understand your customer’s buyer, sitting across the desk. Do you appreciate the importance of their role internally and what they need from you be able to fulfil that role? Becky Barnes has some clear messages for key account managers, like ‘Trust is more important than personality’ and ‘Honour your customer’s time: it’s…

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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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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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Is trust in KAM obsolete?

This article is part of Scott Waugh’s MA research (full text also available on this page), exploring the Challenger Selling approach, which asserts that customers can endorse wholesale business change without the need for a pre-established relationship, or trust. It might be possible, but generally customers were looking for credibility, commitment and consistency and a host of other attributes…

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Importance of trust in Challenger selling

When Scott Waugh (Siemens) heard the authors of the ‘Challenger Sale’ assert that traditional relationship selling was redundant in favour of knowledge-based selling, he was curious enough to research whether trust was redundant too. However, participants agreed that the opportunity for repeat purchases was reduced if relationships broke down, which could be caused by untrustworthy behaviours. So which…

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The Catch 22 of KAM – influencing without authority

Dr Brit van Ooijen explores key account managers’ leadership position and suggests that leadership is more important in any modern management position, regardless of given authority. Boundaries abound and authority is always limited by them, whereas KAM needs to span boundaries: skilled leadership is the way to do it. Trust plays an important part and…

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Trust: build, maintain repair

Trust isn’t a simple or absolute concept, it’s never perfect and incontrovertible. Alistair Taylor explores and explains trust in a KAM setting, including the range of contexts from the individual to the team, and to the organisation. A customer may trust a person but not their company – or vice versa! Alistair builds a structure…

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The power of KAM as a change agent – 2nd Annual AKAM Conference

Karim Bennaziz Houmane, Global Head of Commercial Cards Sales, BNPParibas highlighted critical issues that have developed in KAM – deterioration of the relationship mode back to a transactional mode, circular conversations or the ‘continuous crisis’ mode and reduction of the KAM to problem solver. He introduced the idea of ‘double loop learning’ as a route to more…

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