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Stakeholder Mastery 3.0 – The Six Steps You Must Take

Jermaine Edwards

In 2016 I wrote a post on the five foundation steps for stakeholder management success in key account management, that was well received and guided lots of leaders. Our contacts and stakeholders just aren’t making decisions – How do we deal with their disengagement and getting pushed back and back while they still expect more from us?

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

Strategic Account Management Association

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. Stakeholder management. My team and I led the internal mind-mapping of the customer’s stakeholders.

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Back to the Future: F2F selling is returning, but virtual selling is here to stay

Strategic Account Management Association

Both sides similarly report that engaging in joint ideation and brainstorming to develop or configure customized solutions is much harder virtually than when done in the same room with a physical white board and flip charts. As one executive explained, “Buy and sell widgets virtually?

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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

The co-value creation process includes your organization’s ability to engage internal stakeholders to sketch out a proposed co-value starting point that can be furthered with the customer early. Executives within the organization need to empower account managers through key internal stakeholders and step in to open doors when needed. #

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9 Ways to Get Ideas Brewing with Instant Coffee

Planview

No matter what type of work you do, you likely do a fair amount of brainstorming, planning, and “noodling” in your daily work. Instant Coffee is a new way to brainstorm and collaborate with your team and others. A product team uses Instant Coffee to brainstorm ideas for the next quarter. Brainstorming.

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Design Thinking Driven Problem Solving and Innovation

Flevy

Collaboration: Design thinking is a collaborative process that involves multiple stakeholders. Brainstorming: Generating a wide range of ideas and solutions. Various methods and tools, such as empathy mapping, brainstorming, and rapid prototyping, can facilitate the process.

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Key issues in Marketing and Business Development Planning: Engage, Analyse, Expand, Innovate and Measure

Red Star Kim

There are lots of articles on internal communications, buy-in and stakeholder engagement. Animal magic of buy-in and stakeholder engagement (Video) (kimtasso.com). Ten top takeaways on stakeholder engagement and buy in (kimtasso.com). Align stakeholder needs and expectations. 36% Sort of. Break out session summaries.