An organization's key accounts are its lifeblood. Key account management focuses on the long-term investment of resources in customers that can offer an exceptional return on resources. But which are the key accounts? Are they the ones growing the fastest? The ones that are most financially secure? Or are they the ones that shout the loudest? Key Account Management puts forward a straightforward and effective planning methodology. This fully updated 6th edition of Key Account Management takes a long-term, team-selling strategic view of the whole process, from defining the customer, to managing the relationship and achieving key supplier status. 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 alone as the premier book on managing key customers. Online resources include helpful templates, guides for students and lecturers, and self tests to ensure that best practice is being followed.
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Learn why when a unique yet simple methodology is effectively implemented, it can identify, win, retain and develop a company's key customers and accounts.
Section - ONE: Definitions and purpose;Chapter - 01: The key account approach;Chapter - 02: Why Key Account Management?;Chapter - 03: The spectrum of KAM ambition;Chapter - 04: What is a key account?;Chapter - 05: What is Key Account Management?;Section - TWO: Analysis: opportunity and value;Chapter - 06: Knowing the market, knowing your value;Chapter - 07: Knowing the people, knowing your value;Section - THREE: Relationship management;Chapter - 08: From ‘bow-ties’ to ‘diamonds’;Chapter - 09: Decision mapping and contact strategies;Chapter - 10: The good, the bad, the sad and the ugly;Section - FOUR: Achieving key supplier status;Chapter - 11: The purchasing revolution;Chapter - 12: Supply chain management: seeking value;Chapter - 13: Purchasing organization: rationalization and centralization;Chapter - 14: Supplier positioning: managing suppliers;Section - FIVE: Achieving strategic supplier status;Chapter - 15: Being of strategic value;Chapter - 16: How do they plan to grow?;Chapter - 17: How do they aim to win?;Chapter - 18: What drives them?;Chapter - 19: A shared future?;Section - SIX: The value proposition;Chapter - 20: The customer’s total business experience;Chapter - 21: The customer’s activity cycle;Chapter - 22: Measuring the value – securing the reward;Chapter - 23: Making the proposal;Section - SEVEN: Planning and joint planning;Chapter - 24: The key account plan;Chapter - 25: Joint planning;Section - EIGHT: Targeting;Chapter - 26: Customer classification;Chapter - 27: Customer distinction;Chapter - 28: Global Account Management;Section - NINE: Making it happen;Chapter - 29: Sins and requirements;Chapter - 30: Leadership and organization;Chapter - 31: Skills, attitudes and behaviours;Chapter - 32: The role of information technology;Chapter - 33: Measuring customer profitability;Chapter - 34: The implementation plan;Chapter - 35: Training and further help
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"A combination of clarity, enthusiasm and common sense... reading this is a rewarding experience."
Focuses on practical implementation rather than the theory of account management Helps boost account management effectiveness with practical tools including new and updated online resources Brings the elements of key account management together to help practitioners form and implement their own strategy
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Focuses on practical implementation rather than the theory of account management

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780749469405
Publisert
2015-02-03
Utgave
6. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Kogan Page Ltd
Vekt
700 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter

Biographical note

Peter Cheverton is Director of Insight Marketing & People, now established as the leading international training and consultancy firm in KAM implementation, working in more than thirty countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States, with a client list that includes some of the world's major blue chip companies. He is also the author of Understanding the Professional Buyer and Global Account Management (both published by Kogan Page).