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Category Archives: Strategic Negotiation
London Selling to Procurement Workshop
Following the success of our recent Birmingham open ‘Selling to Procurement’ workshop, we are running a further workshop on May 23rd in central London. For those of you in sales and account management who regularly meet with professional buyers / procurement, this … Continue reading
Posted in Customer Insight, Customer Management, Deal Coaching for Sales, Key Account Management, Negotiating with Procurement, Negotiation, Sales Excellence, Selling to Procurement
Tagged Account Management, GAM, Global Account Management, KAM, Key Account Management, Negotiation, Sales, Sales Effectiveness, SAM, Strategic Account Management
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Power: A Place in Education and Training?
In this fourth and final blog in a series on power in buyer-supplier relationships from Chris Lonsdale, he argues that it would be a mistake to simply dismiss ‘power’ as ‘bad practice’, and proposes that teaching managers about power is about preparing them … Continue reading
The Use of Power in Supply Markets
In this third in a series of blogs from Chris Lonsdale on the concept of power in buyer-supplier relationships, he asserts that a dominant power position in a business relationship is just that, a position. It doesn’t have to be aggressively … Continue reading
Revisiting Buyer-Supplier Power
The current horse meat scandal is one of those regular events in British life that confirms the prejudices of all manner of people. The usual suspects have (inevitably) seen this as the latest reason to bash the EU. Other usual … Continue reading
Posted in Customer Management, Key Account Management, Procurement, Relationship Transformation, Sales Excellence, Selling to Procurement, SRM, Strategic Negotiation, Supplier Management
Tagged KAM, Key Account Management, Negotiation, Procurement, Sales, Sales Effectiveness, SAM, SRM, Strategic Account Management, Supplier Performance Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Supply Management
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Attend our S2P Workshop Birmingham Dec 4th
Our workshop to share our Selling to Procurement (S2P) research is confirmed for December 4th 2012, to be held in central Birmingham. Following on from the research, we decided that it was critical to help our clients better manage the … Continue reading
Posted in And another thing…, Customer Insight, Customer Management, Deal Coaching for Sales, Key Account Management, Negotiation, Sales Excellence, Selling to Procurement, Strategic Negotiation
Tagged Account Management, Global Account Management, KAM, Key Account Management, Negotiation, Sales, Sales Effectiveness, Strategic Account Management, Trusted Advisor
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The Sales and Procurement Relationship: 2012 Report
The annals of commercial history are full of anecdotes about the B2B buyer-seller relationship. Variously described as a contest, a war, a win/win partnership, a value-adding collaboration, a strategic venture, there are very few sales people who don’t have an … Continue reading
G4S: the lessons for Procurement
Pre-opening ceremony, G4S dominated the London2012 Olympics news, and there has been much comment on the reasons why it failed to meet the contracted-for volume of security personnel, with demands for retribution against the company. Talk has … Continue reading
Negotiation: Your place or mine?
I’ve spent much of my career in the procurement field and I’ve heard a heck of a lot of bunkum about the power aspect of the location for negotiations. I hear it again and again from buyers that ‘home is … Continue reading
