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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. A colleague from the SAMA Board of Directors, Noel Capon, recently wrote an article in Harvard Business Review “When CEOs Make Sales Calls” in which he describes the impact of top management’s involvement in the customer relationship.

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

Farland Group

A: “It is the idea behind the business; I have two co-founders, Louise Jefferson and Tim Shercliff. Louise, like me, is a career marketer but Tim has come up through IBM as a sales, operations, and strategy leader. In sales, we’ve seen account management—putting senior people on your top customers.

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Transformation through Agile Leadership

Cosawi

Strategic account management is a team sport, and the sponsor needs to help to facilitate this team mindset. . Procurement leaders, chief financial officers and other senior leaders can be great sponsors if the fit is right. 1 Noel Capon, When CEOs Make Sales Calls, Harvard Business Review, March-April 2021. Dominique Co?te?

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6 Myths Busted about Working Remotely!

SmartKarrot

They argue that remote employees cannot physically present and discuss their ideas with their co-workers. As an employer, you only need to set up a channel on these platforms to facilitate their collaboration, spontaneity, and creativity behind a serendipitous innovation.