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“LIQUIDITY,” ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE AND YOU

Strategic Account Management Association

Reduce boundaries between the firm and suppliers by creating teams that include people from both firms. Arun Sharma is a marketing professor at the University of Miami’s Herbert School of Business, has published extensively on strategic accounts, and is ranked in the top 1% of all marketing professors. Find him online at [link].

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

Account Manager Tips

Is your solution a good fit and does it meet your clients’ needs compared to other suppliers? To what extent will your customers invest in the relationship and view you as a strategic supplier? Clients who believe in joint success and consider you a strategic supplier. Products and services requirements. Culture of innovation.

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Every Minute Counts

Revenue Storm

In a report published in Q1 this year from Gartner, in a complex B2B purchasing decision, the stakeholders spend only 17% of their time with suppliers. If you are in a competitive situation with, say 5 potential suppliers, this means that your buyers are only engaging with you about 3.4% of the time.

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Reverse Auction: What It Is & How to Crush It in Sales

Hubspot Sales

All suppliers receive the same information — Because all sellers are responding to the same request for proposal (RFP), everyone receives the same information from the buyer, leveling the playing field in competitive markets. Buyer publishes a request for proposal or request for quotation. B2B auction. Procurement auction.

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MTD Win Coveted Learning & Development Award

MTD Sales Training

I’m very proud to announce that MTD won Best HR/L&D Supplier at the 2017 CIPD Management Awards held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane. We’re a finalist in the Personnel Today Awards for Best HR Supplier Partnership – so fingers crossed for that. Here are a couple of the “publishable” photos from the night! Thanks again.

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Be Clear on the Roles and Responsibilities

Peter Simoons

Supplier-customer, strategic alliance relationships – they all demand a lot attention, communication and effort to stay healthy. I am publishing my ebook “25 tips for successful Partnerships and Alliances” in parts here on my website. There are many tools that can support you in managing your strategic relationships.

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What people get wrong in strategic planning – part 3: data sources and estimates

CSSP

I would take any published statistics on a very small market with a grain of salt, but they can be a good starting point. Another is to get information from suppliers about how big they think the market it, and compare that. These sources rarely exist. This leaves you with your own data proxy data, or estimates.