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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

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By Dave Duke, Co-Founder and CCO, MetaCX, and Joel Schaafsma, Research General Manager, SAMA. Once you’ve established which customers have the highest likelihood of strategic success, you need to structure your organization around the needs of the customer and create a customer-centric organization that drives co-created innovation.

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Learn from the best: The 2020 SAMA Excellence Awards winners

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Category 1: “Customer co-creation that creates mutual business value” Winners: Interview with Muriel Carroll, Managing Director, Strategic Accounts, Hilton Worldwide Sales, and John Morgan, Senior Strategic Account Manager, Johnson Controls. Email Nicolas Zimmerman at zimmerman@strategicaccounts.org.

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Ten insights on the future of SAM

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Panelists: Jennifer Stanley, Partner, McKinsey & Co.; From Stanley’s perspective, SAM already serves as a beacon for what it means to be a sales professional–particularly when it comes to the rigor SAMs bring to account planning, solutions co-creation with customers and articulation of unique value propositions. #5.

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ALIGNING A MULTIFUNCTIONAL TEAM TO SOLVE A HEALTHCARE CUSTOMER’S LONG- STANDING PAIN POINT

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Pfizer is the winner of the 2021 SAMA Excellence Award for “Innovative Value Co-Creation.” This option led to the creation of a systematic, standardized workflow through education, while better allowing for timely assessments. By Emily Williams, Strategic Account Manager , Pfizer. How the project became a reality.

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How Aramex’s Young SAM Program Provides Strategic Value and Impact

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Form an organizational capability around co-creating products and solutions with our customers Redesign our philosophy around our customers’ needs Make a positive business impact on our customers’ operations Ingrain a deeply customer-centric vision and mission for sales. Its mission is to handle defined strategic key accounts.

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Servitization 101 – How servitization can strengthen your relationship with your key accounts

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Advanced services are propositions, where the provider (for example, a manufacturer) engages in an in-depth customer interaction with an extensive capability integration in a process of co-creation that creates a service to deliver functional value to that customer. Cell +1 314 229 3360. www.advancedservicesgroup.co.uk.

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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

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The executive sponsor can help expand these relationships, so a certain assignment length and continuity in the sponsorship commitment from the executive sponsor helps in the mid- to long-term growth and penetration of the account, especially when co-creation is one of the relationship objectives. What’s next ?