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Servitization 101 – How servitization can strengthen your relationship with your key accounts

Strategic Account Management Association

Servitization and advanced services offer the potential for organizations to significantly transform their business models to deliver even greater value to customers while also increasing their own profitability. But what do we mean by servitization, and what exactly are advanced services? What is servitization?

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How to Identify Key Accounts: A Quick Guide to Getting it Right

Account Manager Tips

You're sitting on a goldmine of existing customers that: can deliver an above-average revenue growth; want to invest in your partnership; will co-create value in ways that neither of you could do alone. You'll select your key accounts with 15 criteria which are grouped into three categories: Growth, Harmony and Value Creation.

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10 Trends – Annual International Marketing Benchmark by PM Forum and Meridian West

Red Star Kim

Higher salary demands will put further pressure on profits/margins unless firms raise prices significantly (which some are doing). Whether the economy continues to decline (as expected) or starts to improve, I would have expected firms to be investing in ensuring future streams of clients, revenue and profits. The figures were 2.3%

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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

The course also offers a helpful brand creation plan and a brand plan template (brand essence, brand assets, brand protection and brand strategy). There are references to multi-branding and co-branding/partnership marketing also. Porter’s generic strategies (cost leadership, differentiation and focus) are relevant here.

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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

Arpedio

The KAM must manage a program and lead the business strategy across internal stakeholders and the value co-creation with the stakeholders at their key accounts – not a trivial endeavor. SAMA is a global non-profit organization with more than 15,000 members. SAM is a journey. It's not a one-time project. Share on facebook.

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Equipped for the Inevitable: The Owens Corning Story

Luminas Strategy

As far as their customers were concerned, because Owens Corning’s investments and go-to market strategy were so broad, they had become a transactional supplier. Get clear (quickly) on the value of their investments to this customer’s bottom line and validate what investments could be made to improve their profitability.

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What type of B2B sales will still exist in 50 years?

QYMATIX

Today, nobody signs a contract without proper research about a potential supplier. Fifty years on, digital sales will be highly profitable. Due to energy optimisation, we will avoid all customer visits unless otherwise necessary for a human co-creation. Everyone can see and review another company.