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Book review: The Strategy Book by Max McKeown

Red Star Kim

Being easy to read, short and jargon-free The Strategy Book (FT Publishing, 2012) is a considerable achievement bearing in mind the subject matter. He mentions innovation expert Clayton Christensen who suggests that success from what you are doing stops you seeing what you should do next. He’s clearly an advocate for scenario planning.

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Alliance Failure and Alliance Success: The 80% Rule

Peter Simoons

The 80% Rule In 2012, ASAP conducted the State of Alliance Management study, delving into the subject of alliance performance. Causes of Alliance Failure Alliances falter due to a range of reasons, including: Insufficient communication. Clear Communication: Open and transparent communication is essential.

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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. Second, I observed that often in professional services marketing and business development we have minimal involvement in research, innovation, product development and pricing.

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The power of gamification

Mercuri International

However, despite the scale of this investment, it’s estimated that 90% of the new skills learnt are forgotten within 12 months (Silverman, 2012). So what’s going wrong? Well, maybe it’s not the ‘what’ but the ‘how’? In their book ‘Supertrends’, our colleagues at Prosales Research have discussed this issue (and many more) in greater depth.

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Why Start a (True) Key Account Management Initiative?

KAM With Passion

For all organisations, large or small, who take it seriously, practicing KAM is about developing deep and strong relationships with truly strategic customers in order to accelerate innovation and growth. As stated earlier, boosting innovation has become a key criterion for organisations with a mature KAM practice.

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3 AI analytics to add to your KPIs today

Zendesk

Finally, the use of such innovative technology has been a key differentiator in transforming top companies into customer-first organizations. Agent communication. In 2012 Expedia took time to analyze phone calls and found that customers encountered issues in the reservation process when booking online.

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Proactive marketing and business development executives – CRM, internal engagement and career insights

Red Star Kim

Four themes in the art of selling – Integrating marketing and sales (kimtasso.com) A creative exercise on engagement generated some interesting metaphors – for example, a brick wall suggesting a lack of communication, a carrot considering motivation and a Leonardo di Caprio shrug suggesting indifference.

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