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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

Strategic Account Management Association

Strategic account management is a team sport, and the sponsor needs to help to facilitate this team mindset. Beyond creating a COE and rethinking executive sponsorship, it is time to bring back Marketing in a co-orchestrator role as account-based marketing (ABM) to help accelerate the strategic account management journey.

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

Strategic Account Management Association

A Center of Excellence (COE) Executive “buy-in and be in” Account-based marketing. By COE, we mean a centralized group of SAM experts and people who “get it” and who should be leveraged as the catalyst for instilling the mindset, processes and skill sets for distinctive go-to-market and customer-centric engagement models.

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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

This post reviews the core material covered in Managing Brands Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) professional qualification (Level 6 elective New CIM professional marketing qualifications – 2020 (kimtasso.com) ) and the Cambridge Marketing College’s Marketing Manager Apprenticeship – a Level 6 Qualification (kimtasso.com).

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KPI Management: Open Innovation KPIs

Flevy

Open Innovation Programs are pivotal for organizations seeking to enhance their innovation capabilities , access new technologies, and stay competitive in rapidly evolving markets. Speed to Market for Open Innovation Projects Definition : The time taken from the initiation of an open innovation project to its commercial launch.

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Understanding Account-Based Marketing: A Podcast Interview with Bev Burgess, Founder and Managing Principal, Inflexion Group

Farland Group

Bev has over 30 years of experience working in B2B marketing, both on the client side as well as consulting and training, and is best known for her work in account-based marketing (ABM). Q: Can you tell us about account-based growth versus account-based marketing and how you might advise people to consider that in their program?

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Bigtincan to Acquire Brainshark

SBI

The deal combines two of the leading providers of Sales Readiness solutions for training, coaching and onboarding, adding enterprise-grade capabilities to create the most complete Sales Enablement Platform in the market. Bigtincan is helping the world’s leading brands facilitate the buying experience of the future. About Bigtincan.

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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

The new leadership approach is about interacting through informal networks, experimentation, learning, facilitating, coaching and enabling. “In The chapter ends with case studies of companies that have implemented emergent leadership – Semco, HCL Technologies, Brand Velocity Inc, Whole Foods Market, W.L Senior management support.