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The Charybdis and Scylla of Key Account Management

KAM With Passion

A first key aspect is to create alignement, drive resources allocation, and define the governance of the initiative. A second key aspect is to help Key Account Managers and their Key Account Teams design and implement the Key Account Plans. How long will she accept to live with such a situation?

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Why Start a (True) Key Account Management Initiative?

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The other most usual KAM-specific processes include: the selection and deselection of Key Accounts, resources allocation and alignment, the building and management of account teams and account plans, as well as goal setting for the short and medium term along multiple dimensions.

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April 05 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Ensure continuous improvement of formal processes to support best practice governance of both the pre and post-sales support activity. Develop global account support strategies with sales to drive client promotors, referrals and identify new sale opportunities.

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Top 5 Account Management Best Practices to Drive Real Customer Centricity

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A successful strategy begins with effective collaboration and transparency: Account-based marketing ready to engage and support the initiative. A clearly defined organizational structure, rules of engagement, and governance mechanisms. Global Account Management. Strategic Account Management.

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3 Key Commercial Capabilities to serve customers and grow revenue

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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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5 Ways Account Management Drives Customer Centricity

Revegy

A successful strategy begins with effective collaboration and transparency: Account-based marketing ready to engage and support the initiative. A clearly defined organizational structure, rules of engagement, and governance mechanisms. Global Account Management. Strategic Account Management.

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How complex is your complex sale? An analogy with Judo belts

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In that type of situation, the project initiators and grantors are governments, and many stakeholders are involved on the buy side (government agencies and departments, advisors of various types, politicians), as well as on the sell side (bids to large infrastructure projects are submitted by a consortium, not by a single player).