Implementing KAM 2: the KAM Framework
18th December 2018 | Javier Marcos, Mark Davies, Rodrigo Guesalaga & Sue Holt
As we explore how to build a KAM programme, we need to consider strategy – customer by customer.
In the first article of this series inspired and adapted from our book Implementing KAM, we explored the reasons why KAM is becoming critical for selling organisations and the customers they serve, why a shift towards a customer-centric approach is critical, and how a greater focus on understanding and communicating value to a much greater depth than may have been considered previously is necessary.
This article provides more context to this initial premise and describes guidance for companies that want to shift and develop their organisation so that it can consistently deliver growth by providing quantifiable value to more complex key customers. This is a challenge, and one that we have found many organisations struggle with. There is often an underestimation of the challenges that a shift towards a KAM business model presents.
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