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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. The phrase tells us to have a positive mindset and look for the good when faced with a dire, and potentially devastating, turn of events. A process for internal and external value co-creation. Turning lemons into lemonade.

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

Strategic Account Management Association

Disruption Leads to Innovation. Disruption, although most times unwelcome, gives way to innovation. Could the mother of creativity and innovation, in fact, be disruption? We have seen seismic shifts in industries like events and hospitality that have been devastated by the pandemic.

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10 Trends – Annual International Marketing Benchmark by PM Forum and Meridian West

Red Star Kim

I’m surprised at inward looking nature of the highest-ranked factors and how low both technology and innovation appear to be on firms’ agendas. I’m surprised at the apparent relative lack of innovation and creativity here. Investments in events and sponsorships are being scaled back. The figures were 2.3% in 2020, -1.3%

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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

Arpedio

On September 15th, more than eighty Key Account Managers (KAM) assembled in Copenhagen and online for a hybrid event. 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. Back to blog.

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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

The course also offers a helpful brand creation plan and a brand plan template (brand essence, brand assets, brand protection and brand strategy). There are references to multi-branding and co-branding/partnership marketing also. Porter’s generic strategies (cost leadership, differentiation and focus) are relevant here.

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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

It focuses on people, purpose, collaboration and innovation. There is ample research evidence that in dynamic and complex business environments this traditional approach inhibits creativity and innovation and decreases motivation and productivity”. The book describes why we need to change, what needs to change and how to change.

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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. Bailey, as we approach the Leadership Horizon event on 04.04.2024, could you start by giving us a brief overview of your upcoming keynote?