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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

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By Dave Duke, Co-Founder and CCO, MetaCX, and Joel Schaafsma, Research General Manager, SAMA. Now more than ever, many customers are looking for suppliers that effectively offer strategic thought leadership. A process for internal and external value co-creation. Turning lemons into lemonade. 4: Focus on value.

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

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Pfizer is the winner of the 2021 SAMA Excellence Award for “Innovative Value Co-Creation.” Past attempts by the customer to solve this challenge involved engaging both hospital staff and primary care leadership. The winners of the 2022 Excellence Awards will be announced at the SAMA Annual Conference May 23-25 in New Orleans.

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Beyond the Horizon: GenAI and Ethical Leadership

MDI Training

Beyond the Horizon: GenAI and Ethical Leadership Prefer to listen to the article? 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. Enjoy reading! I mean that.

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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

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To lead effectively, they must embrace change through agile leadership. Let us define what we mean by agile leadership. Agile leadership. Agile leadership. In our current reality, this leadership skill is necessary to survive. Sponsors are critical in these uncertain and transformative times. What’s next ?

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

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Form an organizational capability around co-creating products and solutions with our customers Redesign our philosophy around our customers’ needs Make a positive business impact on our customers’ operations Ingrain a deeply customer-centric vision and mission for sales. A new central commercial organization was born.

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

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COE: A Critical Lighthouse to Provide Successful Journey Direction and Leadership. The global COE can also help foster the creation of communities of practice to exchange best practices and scale them. They can be the anchor point for business case creation, communication and scaling opportunities across the organization.

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Exploring the Influence of AI on Leadership Roles – an experiment by a CEO

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Exploring the Influence of AI on Leadership Roles: Learn more about the ongoing ChatGPT experiment by MDI CEO Gunther Fürstberger In a ChatGPT experiment, our CEO Gunther Fürstberger tried to test the boundaries between artificial intelligence and humans. AI does not yet have a (co-)decision-making role.