Webinar

Rethinking Key Account Management

Why should your organisation rethink KAM? Expert Mark Davies explains why many traditional KAM practices fall short in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) market environment. He advocates a shift towards Value-Based KAM built on four critical building blocks — Offer Development & Innovation, Key Account Leadership, KAM talent, and Value-Based Strategy. Focus there…

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Bulletin Q1 2025

Diagnostics and tools

Offer comparator

This simple diagnostic focuses minds on what the key account really values versus what you and your competitors are offering. It helps to cut through undue optimism, unnecessary pessimism to objectively identify what is really important to the customer. And hence, whether your value proposition is relevant and strong, where it is good enough and…

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Webinar

Fostering Connections: An ED&I Approach

Your key customer cares about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, so must you! Equality/Equity (do you know the difference?), Diversity and Inclusion isn’t just a ‘woke’ concept idea any more. The economic power of consumers and employees has made business care. It could be your organisation’s USP when all the other tender submissions look the same.…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Strategic Key Account plans and planning – AKAM Technical workshop, Lisbon, 2023

This AKAM Technical workshop (Lisbon, 2023) kicked off with the importance of strategic key account plans, arguably the most important thing a key account manager has to do. Which is at odds with the fact that they are commonly poor or even non-existent. So Dr Diana Woodburn explains how to construct the strategic key account…

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Webinar

Strategic key account plans in practice

The quality – even the existence – of strategic key account plans is patchy even in some of the most forward-looking organisations. Why is that? After all, these are the principal instruments through which key account managers secure the resources they need from their own organisation and the commitment to future business from the customer.…

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Papers and articles

Securing key account growth in a competitive world

For many companies key accounts are or should be the ‘engine of growth’. Realising their potential is patchy, however, so Richard Ilsley and Alistair Taylor show why that is and how a KAM approach achieves such performance, validated through appropriate measurement.

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Webinar

Strategic partnership conversations: from supplier-customer to partnership

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…

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Papers and articles

KAM: Selling? Providing services? Or both?

In this paper the well-known Professors Bjoern Ivens, Barbara Niersbach and Catharine Pardo explain the fundamental role of service in KAM. Their research developed a model of four types of service in which key account managers should be engaged in delivering to their internal and external networks: interaction, individualization, information and integration. This important finding…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

AKAM Technical: Creating Customer Value Through Design Thinking

This workshop addressed some of the practical issues encountered in developing key customer value, considering what is value and what is not in the all-important eyes of the customer. Richard looked at why/how value is problematic but demonstrated that investing time to get it right can pay huge dividends. The workshop learned about: The core lessons…

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Value propositions