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Customer led
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Integrating the power of Marketing to accelerate engagement for competitive immunity.
Leadership
In today’s dynamic landscape, exceptional leadership thrives on the art of coaching, elevating the needs of team members to paramount importance, while zealously cultivating a harmonious and compassionate work milieu that fuels collaborative brilliance.
Disruption, Trends, and Transformations
Business transformations – trends – What we see | disruption in the business environment.
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Marketing Role in Creating Distinctive Business Value
The Figure below illustrates what the best marketing organizations are doing. Focusing on the right side, we can see some of the critical roles that Marketing needs to play for the success of the customercentric journey and what we have been exploring in this...
The Marketing and Sales roles in this tight collaboration
In both Sales and Marketing, we work so hard on customer centricity, customer focus and customer knowledge. Yet do we truly understand the customer’s buying journey – from the moment they realize a need for a product or service, i.e., the point of inspiration, to the...
Account Base Marketing
The global economy is becoming increasingly complex and, since we work in the strategic account management environment, we can see the impact it has on the day-to-day role of strategic account managers (SAMs). We are finding the skill set of the strategic account...
COE Components: Avoiding Complexity
The essential components of a COE are also important drivers for success. Avoiding the tendency toward too much complexity and focusing on the COE components that are really needed is an art.1. Competency and training curriculum to develop personalized learning...
Customer-Centric vs. Roles Curriculums
Learning and development capabilities need to be integrated into the COE to build a customer-centric curriculum. This curriculum ensures that every customer-facing individual is aligned to the same engagement or selling model and this is a key success component of SAM...
Building global excellence
Much has been said about the challenges and values of building global centers of excellence for key account management (KAM) and strategic account management (SAM) as a strategic operational group within organizations. Each year, the Strategic Account Management...