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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

Strategic Account Management Association

A colleague from the SAMA Board of Directors, Noel Capon, recently wrote an article in Harvard Business Review “When CEOs Make Sales Calls” in which he describes the impact of top management’s involvement in the customer relationship. Figure 3: Matching the right executive sponsor. What’s next ?

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The Power of Account-Based Marketing: A Thales Case Study

Cosawi

In the work we do, we find fascinating to see that Marketing as a function is often missing at the strategic account table. In our more traditional groups, marketing, and sales work in locked steps but it seems that the shift to strategic account management is often missing marketing when time comes to establish its roadmap.

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How to define a strong KAM Training Path

KAM With Passion

It provides you with a precise description of the skills and competencies required from a true Key Account Manager (not a plain entreprise customers sales rep). A well designed competencies reference framework allows to assess the competencies of each Key Account Manager, whatever their degree of experience.

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Moving Customer Engagement Forward in a New Era

Clarity Engagement Solutions

New types of stakeholders, little swayed by the strength of a product sales pitch, have been looking to pharmaceutical companies to sit more consistently at the patient population management table. Long before the COVID-19 outbreak, pharmaceutical companies knew that the customer engagement game had changed. DEMONSTRATE YOUR ABILITY TO PIVOT.

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Moving Customer Engagement Forward in a New Era

Clarity Engagement Solutions

New types of stakeholders, little swayed by the strength of a product sales pitch, have been looking to big pharmaceutical companies to sit more consistently at the patient population management table. Long before the COVID-19 outbreak, pharmaceutical companies knew that the customer engagement game had changed.

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Moving Customer Engagement Forward in a post-Covid-19 age

Clarity Engagement Solutions

New types of stakeholders, little swayed by the strength of a product sales pitch, have been looking to big pharma to sit more consistently at the patient population management table. Long before the COVID-19 outbreak, pharmaceutical companies knew that the customer engagement game had changed.

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Moving Customer Engagement Forward in a New Era

Clarity Engagement Solutions

New types of stakeholders, little swayed by the strength of a product sales pitch, have been looking to big Pharma to sit more consistently at the patient population management table. Long before the COVID-19 outbreak, pharmaceutical companies knew that customer engagement game had changed. DEMONSTRATE YOUR ABILITY TO PIVOT.