Typical Issues |
Ideal Situation |
Lack of business planning or it is seen as a ‘tick box’ exercise |
Business planning drives day to day activity |
Short term approach |
Managing accounts as own business |
Account Managers reactive rather than proactive |
Planned account & RI activity |
Too great a focus on outputs i.e. target performance |
Appreciation that input (i.e. the quality of what you do) dictates output |
Account objectives not properly defined or implemented |
Account Manager has a separate strategy for each account |
Account Managers unable to interpret the information available to them |
Account strategies based on analysis of a number of different indicators |