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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.” This option led to the creation of a systematic, standardized workflow through education, while better allowing for timely assessments. By Emily Williams, Strategic Account Manager , Pfizer. How the project became a reality.

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

Strategic Account Management Association

They can prioritize what needs to be done, from aligning business leaders and upskilling the strategic account managers to providing an aligned, integrated business process. In return, local teams can look at their market environments and from them prioritize their local roadmaps. 4: Creating Customer-centric Curricula. Conclusion.

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4 Ways NLP AI and Sales Methodology Will Join Forces

Upland

Co-Customer Selling: Enterprise selling has been changing. In the future customers will actively participating in the co-creation process. This will enable sales teams to prioritize their efforts and focus on the leads with the highest potential for conversion. Few B2B enterprise teams present predefined solutions.

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Why isn’t Marketing in the KAM/ SAM journey ?

Cosawi

This shift requires broadening Marketings role beyond the customer buying journey to include insight generation and case studies and to create value creation for mutual growth and ROI. Ensure executive engagement: Active support from senior leadership is necessary for strategic alignment, resource prioritization, and accountability.

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The Ultimate Guide to Build a Top Performing Key Account Management Team from Scratch

DemandFarm

Monitoring Progress against KPIs Growth Planning: Do they proactively work with economic decision makers to co-create value-driven growth plans? Value Creation Frequency of value-driven interactions beyond basic account needs Use of data to identify opportunities for account growth Tailoring solutions to specific account objectives 5.

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A Step-by-Step Strategic Account Plan Template for Shared-Value

Hubspot Sales

Discuss value co-creation with your customer. Ensure you have defined and prioritized value opportunities correctly, and work with them to provide relevant materials or resources to secure buy-in. Ensure your action plan contains: Top five objectives. Map critical resources. Assign tasks and key owners. Section 10: Plan Review.