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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? Companies are seeking interactions with customers that bring them new insight, knowledge, ideas and innovations.

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How Aramex’s Young SAM Program Provides Strategic Value and Impact

Strategic Account Management Association

Director Global Account Management, Aramex. Aramex is a leading global provider of comprehensive logistics and transportation solutions, headquartered in Dubai and listed on the Dubai Financial Market. Its mission is to handle defined strategic key accounts. By Shahaboddin Wahdatehagh, Sr.

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Why Start a (True) Key Account Management Initiative?

KAM With Passion

For all organisations, large or small, who take it seriously, practicing KAM is about developing deep and strong relationships with truly strategic customers in order to accelerate innovation and growth. Increasingly, KAM approaches include co-creation in the field of R&D or of go-to-market models.

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3 Key Commercial Capabilities to serve customers and grow revenue

KAM With Passion

Complex sales is about generating and winning opportunities and acquiring new customers in a B2B (private) or B2G (public/government) environment where different stakeholders are involved on the buyer’s side and the solution is partially or totally co-constructed with the customer.

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Account Based Marketing interview by Pfizer COE

Cosawi

Along with the Key Account Manager, marketing is the co-orchestrator of KAM – they are intrinsically linked. CO-ORCHESTRATION AND CO-CREATION . Bring these skills and knowledge together to help co-create and implement solutions that deliver value for the Key Account and ultimately patients.

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The Marketing and Sales roles in this tight collaboration

Cosawi

SAMs traditionally are the experts at co-creation, identifying customer pain points and solutions connecting them – guiding customers through the steps of exploration, research, validation, purchase and, ultimately, advocacy. This Venn Diagram illustrates how these two roles can work together to co-create value for the customer.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Augmented SAM

Mercuri International

Use AI-based simulations to deliver value propositions and iterate innovations or prototypes through virtual trial and error. Selection and deselection of strategic accounts. Fostering co-creation and innovation using AI. Even the developers of AI are often not 100% sure of the mechanics of their creations.