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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. SAMA and Boston Consulting Group partnered in May 2020 to conduct a study aimed at discovering the early changes to customer expectations for sales organizations as a result of the COVID pandemic. Turning lemons into lemonade.

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

Strategic Account Management Association

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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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

Strategic Account Management Association

In our organization’s work, we see much confusion and lack of clarity on executive sponsorship, even when it is in place. The SAM should be able to count on the help of the executive sponsor in amplifying the voice of the customer throughout the organization, particularly at the executive level. Agile leadership.

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

Strategic Account Management Association

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

Strategic Account Management Association

Organizations are already planning for this new- or next-normal hybrid model and have worked hard to elevate the needed skill sets of their commercial teams – especially strategic account managers. The pandemic has forced organizations to pivot and reinvent how they engage with customers. These changes would otherwise have taken years.

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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. Click below to access our AI speech-generated audio.

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

MDI Training

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. Who do we delegate to?