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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? Drawing some positives from the past year, COVID-19 has accelerated and catalyzed several exciting aspects of the future work and organization design.

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KPI Management: Innovation Pipeline Strength KPIs

Flevy

Innovation Pipeline Strength is a critical metric for organizations aiming to maintain a highly competitive level of innovation. It reflects an organization’s ability to manage, prioritize, and convert ideas into viable products or services, ensuring a consistent flow of innovation.

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Choosing Your AI Use Case: A Prioritization Framework

Planview

The possibilities feel limitless; however, organizations can’t afford to be aimless. Whether you’re just entering the AI arena or it’s your umpteenth time returning, you’ll need a framework in place to gather ideas and prioritize the best ones, minimize the risk you’ll face, and continually assess your opportunities.

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KPI Management: Open Innovation KPIs

Flevy

Open Innovation Programs represent a paradigm shift in how organizations approach innovation, moving beyond the confines of internal R&D to leverage the collective creativity and expertise of external partners.

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Digital Transformations Are Crucial to Optimizing Innovation Value

Planview

Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 percentage points per year.

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Driving Sustainable Organic Growth: The Power of Customer-Centricity in B2B Organizations

Luminas Strategy

Because of today’s unpredictable economy and rapidly changing business landscape, B2B companies are facing headwinds, challenged to identify strategies that will result in sustainable organic growth. To truly understand your customer’s pain points and expectations, it’s critical to prioritize direct engagement with customers.

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The Future of SAM – Revisited

Strategic Account Management Association

Regardless of the organization we work at, we could be outspent, out resourced or out marketed but we do have the opportunity to outthink our competition. She also works on sales effectiveness and has recently done some innovative work around omni-channel excellence. The future is now. He has served on the board of directors at SAMA.