Friday, July 6, 2007

Miller Heiman : The New Successful Large Account Management



The New Successful Large account Management is the third book in the Miller Heiman series of strategic selling. The focus is on the large customers which constitute more than 50% of the total revenue.

One of the main messages is how important it is in the new competitive environment to climb as high as possible on the Buy-Sell hierarchy in order to maximize the relationship and value potential moving away from the commoditized product selling status.

The Buy-Sell hierarchy consists of 5 levels:
- Deliver commodity that meets specifications
- Deliver good products and services
- Provide good service and support
- Contribute to business issues
- Contribute to organizational issues

The whole book is centered on building an account plan that can deliver this promise and which contains the following elements:

- Field of Play
- Account team
- Buy-Sell hierarchy
- Strategic players
- Trends and Opportunities
- Strengths and vulnerabilities
- Charter statement and Goals
- Focus investments and Stop investments
- Revenue target

Large account management is a team effort that transcends the pure selling function: it increasingly becomes an entrepreneurial , external business unit driven style of activity.

As in the previous Miller Heiman books the same principles are advocated:

- importance to strive for win/win value creation
- importance to follow a process driven and constantly reviewed methodology

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