Growing Accounts requires a focused effort using a synthesis of Inside-Out and Outside-In analyses. The Outside-In approach is also essential for New Business Development. Developing a finessed understanding of the place of the customer in your business and the customers vision, growth focus and time-horizon objectives is key.
First ,Know the Customer. Then ,Grow the Customer.
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Sales : Eat what I kill
today?
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Account
Management :What
Relationship am I
building with my
Customer ?
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What We'll
be Seeing
KnowYour Customer
1. The 80/20 Rule (Pareto’s
Principle)
2. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
3. Map the Decision Making Unit
(DMU)
GrowYour Customer
1. Inside Out
2. Outside In
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The Pareto Principle
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80% of sales come
from 20% of
products
80% of profits come
from 20% of
customers
80% of profits come
from 20% of the time
staff spend
80% of complaints
come from 20%
customers
80% of complaint
handling time is used
by 20% complaints
Know
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Low Future Value
High Current Value
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Manage
Divest/Evaluate
Focus
Nurture
Know
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Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
has urged leaders of group firms to focus
on sustaining profitable growth and
developing agile businesses to
succeed in a changing and volatile
world business environment and
achieve its Vision 2025.
Mistry said for the group to sustain
profitable growth and develop agile
business amidst a changing and volatile
world business environment, it should
focus on developing unique
consumer insights, diversification
of profit pools, creation of
intellectual property rights,
deployment of robust risk
management processes, creation
of financial flexibility to seize
opportunities, and minimising
impact on the environment.
Grow
The Context :Customers have become far more knowledgeable than ever before. And competition very fierce . And the business environment fluid as never before,
…Those who do not expand their relationships with clients will not survive…businesses need to be responsive to market needs. This deck is about profitably growing accounts. Empathy ,rapport building , personal connections etc. which are absolutely essential to great account relationships will need to be covered in another deck , another day!
Account Management in its true sense is what Marketing is! Building Customer relationships through construction of positive experiences… . At the very core , this is about a business relationship where the need is to profitably provide solutions to customers !
This ‘Economics’ discovery has huge implications for businesses . Variations on the 80/20 theme maybe a 70/20/10 allocation but the broad guiding principle would stand.
Getting a sense of the ‘future value’ gets the business to start examining how future ready it is ..whether its current strengths will allow it to thrive , whether the current large attractive customer will get it through the next turn of the wheel… and a strategic understanding of the customers business – her pain points , her JTBD , her business focus…
A decision matrix which could emerge from the analysis…
Organizations have different names and different people playing these roles…identification and reducing the complexity in Global /Large B2B structures to these roles is key to manage the account successfully.
Taking the Tata Group , a behemoth spanning consumer facing and B2B businesses, as an example. The Chairman of the company has gone on record with the vision and the broad road map for the group. A bit more digging shows how specific group-wide initiatives like Quality , Customer centricity etc dovetail in…
So if one were to put together a map of where the group is going…
…Or this. This should be further drilled down and also seen through the individual company lens…Tata Motors would have a different action plan from say, Tata Steel…
White space analysis shows Service X to be ‘sold’ into a Customer based on his objectives and strategic vision , ROI analysis to provide the wording/positioning of the pitch
The Outside In analysis would throw up areas of future opportunities that the organization needs to build capabilities for…starting now!