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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

Strategic Account Management Association

By Dave Duke, Co-Founder and CCO, MetaCX, and Joel Schaafsma, Research General Manager, SAMA. Once you’ve established which customers have the highest likelihood of strategic success, you need to structure your organization around the needs of the customer and create a customer-centric organization that drives co-created innovation.

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ALIGNING A MULTIFUNCTIONAL TEAM TO SOLVE A HEALTHCARE CUSTOMER’S LONG- STANDING PAIN POINT

Strategic Account Management Association

Pfizer is the winner of the 2021 SAMA Excellence Award for “Innovative Value Co-Creation.” While this customer’s staff demonstrated both passion and expertise, to make this process a reality, they needed a project focused on innovative thinking, data-driven insights, stakeholder connectivity and patient/provider resources.

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Ten insights on the future of SAM

Strategic Account Management Association

Panelists: Jennifer Stanley, Partner, McKinsey & Co.; From Stanley’s perspective, SAM already serves as a beacon for what it means to be a sales professional–particularly when it comes to the rigor SAMs bring to account planning, solutions co-creation with customers and articulation of unique value propositions. #5.

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Co-creation for Scaredy Cats

Chaordix Co-Creation

The ability to innovate is essential to sustaining competitive advantage, and yet, some companies still tremble at the thought of inviting customers into their inner sanctum.

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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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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? Companies are seeking interactions with customers that bring them new insight, knowledge, ideas and innovations.

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The Importance of Co-Creating Value with Every Strategic Customer

Account Manager Tips

20 ways to encourage value co-creation with your customers Favourite collaboration app Listener tip In other news Quote of the week. And what if we take it one step further and ask what it means to "co-create value" with our customers? Which is why co-creation is so powerful. We hear the word "value" all the time.