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Ten insights on the future of SAM

Strategic Account Management Association

Panelists: Jennifer Stanley, Partner, McKinsey & Co.; Only by making astute observations will you uncover potential new sources of value. Make sure your internal stakeholders understand the value your program brings to customers and, through them, to the firm. Centers of Excellence (CoE). Agility is the new stability.

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

Strategic Account Management Association

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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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

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We too often confuse strategic account sponsorship with corporate project sponsorship, where sponsorship is a way to escalate issues or decision-making when in need. We also needed to make sure senior leaders are aware of these responsibilities to optimize their speed and impact. Figure 3: Matching the right executive sponsor.

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

When we see the investment that some companies are making in pivoting their engagement model to be more strategic, customer-centric and value enabling, we are always surprised to see the enabling functions still focus on supporting the more transactional model which is based on the number of interactions as the metric. Conclusion.

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Beyond the Horizon: GenAI and Ethical Leadership

MDI Training

Beyond the Horizon: GenAI and Ethical Leadership In this blog post, keynote speaker Bailey Parnell gives us a few snippets of her exciting keynote speech at our upcoming Leadership Horizon event. Bias and Fairness – Addressing potential biases in GenAI algorithms and ensuring GenAI decisions are fair and non-discriminatory is crucial.

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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

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Back to blog. The KAM must manage a program and lead the business strategy across internal stakeholders and the value co-creation with the stakeholders at their key accounts – not a trivial endeavor. KAMs must embrace technology and data to support their program execution and informed decision-making.

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Exploring the Influence of AI on Leadership Roles – an experiment by a CEO

MDI Training

Read this blog post to see the results. Coach potentials: AI can make learning suggestions Answers from ChatGPT: The four main roles of a leader according to Covey – building trust, developing vision, implementing strategies, and coaching potential – can be supported to varying degrees by AI technologies.