Implementing Key Account Management is a highly practical handbook that guides readers through the realities of rolling out a functional key account management programme. The book offers an integrated framework for key account management (KAM) that businesses can use to design or further develop strategic customer management programmes, enabling them to overcome the obstacles that organizations often face when rolling out their strategies. Bringing together the experiences of leading experts within this field, Implementing Key Account Management draws on two decades of research and best practice from Cranfield University School of Management, one of the foremost centres for researcher and thought leadership in KAM. Between them, the authors have designed and delivered programmes globally for clients such as Rolls-Royce, Unilever, Vodafone, The Economist and many more. Rigorously researched, well-grounded and practical, this book is - quite simply - the definitive, go-to resource for implementing key account management programmes.
"This book is crammed with distilled, practical wisdom for key account managers and their directors.
Finally we thank those at Miller Heiman with whom we have worked so closely: Sam Reese, Jason Buma, Jenna Poinier, Harry Magure, Ryan Olsen, and Erin Anderson. Without their efforts and feedback, this would have been a very different ...
This book addresses the strategic challenges facing top executives and sales leaders as they build strategies to better manage their key accounts.
Timely, important, and essential, Key Account Management and Planning is the only reference handbook those with key account responsibilities will ever need.
The very best state-of-the-art strategies are set out clearly in this book in a practical way that can be implemented in all organizations.
direct cost calculation [Riebel 1956; Haag 1992; Plinke 2002]. This cost-earning ratio of each individual customer, which compares the surplus achieved with the costs directly caused by the same customer (Figure 13), is a much better ...
With coverage of latest best practice including IT's role in account management, plus new case studies, online supporting resources and a new section comparing how different industries/markets approach key account management, it stands ...
The ideas put forward in the text are based on the authors' sales training programme LAMP (Large Account Management Programme).
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