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Spotlight on Richard Chaplin, PM Forum and Managing Partners’ Forum

Red Star Kim

So here’s the spotlight on Richard Chaplin, PM Forum and Managing Partners’ Forum. That would give anyone great insight into leadership and management. He then created both the PM Forum and Managing Partners’​ Forum – two key membership groups in professional services. Richard Chaplin and I speak almost every week.

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Campaigns, thought leadership and project management – Early engagement, scoping and risk management

Red Star Kim

At the recent PM Forum online workshop on campaigns, thought leadership and project management there were 17 delegates from legal, accountancy and insolvency firms located in London, Belfast, Sutton Coldfield, Manchester, Newcastle, Cambridge and Dubai. Take time to scope Scoping is a key aspect of project management.

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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

This post reviews the core material covered in Managing Brands Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) professional qualification (Level 6 elective New CIM professional marketing qualifications – 2020 (kimtasso.com) ) and the Cambridge Marketing College’s Marketing Manager Apprenticeship – a Level 6 Qualification (kimtasso.com).

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

Organizations are already planning for this new- or next-normal hybrid model and have worked hard to elevate the needed skill sets of their commercial teams – especially strategic account managers. This is leading many companies to accelerate their strategic account management journeys and transformations. Three Pillars of Success.

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Manage Your Stakeholders

Peter Simoons

Tip 22: Manage Your Stakeholders. In an alliance, the alliance manager will need to spend a substantial amount of time in their organization to align the stakeholders to the goals and objectives of the alliance, as well as to secure their support to go forward in the execution. People have their own individual quirks and behaviors.

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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

Data – CRM (Client Relationship Management) and CDP (Client Data Platforms) are often lacking. Processes and skills for managing opportunities and pipelines can be lacking. Time and capacity – Many fee-earners are stretched and compelled to manage large amounts of client work under heavy time pressures.

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Wholesale as a Success Factor: Modern Customer Relationship Management

QYMATIX

This article focuses on the key factors that have become essential to success in wholesale distribution, such as well-managed customer relationship management, its importance and what it entails. Customer Relationship Management – What is it? Predictive Sales is a forward-looking software.