Red Star Kim

JUNE 15, 2023

At the start of June I had the pleasure of leading PM Forum ’s “Towards KAM (and ABM) – Helping fee-earners with client relationship management” online workshop. Delegates were from legal and accountancy firms in the UK, Channel Islands, Germany and United Arab Emirates. Why do law firms needs SAM?

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Key Account Management Account Management Management Client Relationships 130

Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Protectionism – Some fee-earners could be insecure and defensive about sharing client information and relationships. The culture and rewards systems sometimes worked against integrated client teams. Data – CRM (Client Relationship Management) and CDP (Client Data Platforms) are often lacking.

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Key Account Management Account Management Value Proposition Client Relationships 130

Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In the highly regarded business strategy book “Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works” (by former leaders of Procter & Gamble Lafley and Roger) the strategy cascade process is broken down into five key questions. Capacity planning – Research suggests that humans can probably manage a maximum 150 to 250 close relationships.

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Value Proposition Key Account Management Digitalization Sales 130

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Participant Demographics We asked Key Account Management professionals to gain their insights on present challenges and the opportunities they envision through the adoption of automated and intelligent solutions? In your experience, what are the top priorities of a Key Account Management team?

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Red Star Kim

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There was advice for pragmatic solutions: from starting small (focus on a few key relationships, concentrate on “field of play”, Key Account Management (KAM) programmes), preparing relationship maps, scraping data from email threads and reverse engineering successful relationships.

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Management Emotional Intelligence Onboarding Communication 130

Red Star Kim

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It was interesting to learn how Business Development Executives work with managing client relationships”. Another delegate suggested using monday.com | A new way of working to integrate all action lists and help avoid being overwhelmed by so many tasks.

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Red Star Kim

MARCH 16, 2023

One way is to embed the right cross-selling and referrer management attitudes and behaviours into other programmes – for example, into campaigns, content management, networking and Key Account Management (KAM). Another cultural shift. Internal communication – Why, how and what (kimtasso.com).

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