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

Strategic Account Management Association

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

Strategic Account Management Association

Pfizer is the winner of the 2021 SAMA Excellence Award for “Innovative Value Co-Creation.” While this customer’s staff demonstrated both passion and expertise, to make this process a reality, they needed a project focused on innovative thinking, data-driven insights, stakeholder connectivity and patient/provider resources.

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The 10 Best AI Tools for Small Businesses and How to Use Them

Hubspot Sales

Cut to 2024 , and I lean on ChatGPT to brainstorm use cases for products, concepts, or other ideas I’m writing about. I interviewed Appareify Co-Founder Nora Salama about the pros of AI in customer service. As a content manager, I often borrowed another department's design resource specifically for video content creation.

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What agencies and brand need to know about web3, with Jeff Kauffman Jr.

Account Management Skills

They’re just like, well let’s make our employees co owners of this thing. And we’re going to unlock a new level of participation and creation. You think, I’m a big holder of the Uni token, I want to see this organisation, this business grow, which I’m a stakeholder in, and I own a piece of it.

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Book review: The Management Shift – How to harness the power of people and transform your organization for sustainable success by Vlatka Hlupic

Red Star Kim

She summarises the key emerging ideas in the context of strategy as transient competition, long term orientation, focus on customers, need for a higher purpose and building alliances amongst stakeholders. Experiment with ideas (where she refers to Seth Godin’s book “ Poke the Box” ). There’s a detailed explanation of the study.

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How to Start a Business: A Complete Guide for Startup Entrepreneurs

Hubspot Sales

Brainstorming business names? Too much detail isn't helpful in a business plan and will only distract and confuse stakeholders. The appendix is optional, but it's a helpful place to include your resume and the resume(s) of your co-founder(s), as well as any permits, leases, and other legal information you want to include.

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