At a recent Proactive Marketing Executive course (see http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/) we spent a fair amount of time talking about marketing/business development initiatives where the focus is on managing a few major clients - a Key Account Management KAM programme. I was asked to summarise the key reasons why firms should concentrate Read More
On Monday evening I attended the Inaugural Lecture for Laurie at Allen & Overy’s offices where there main speakers were Richard Susskind and his son Daniel. James Luke from IBM was also interviewed and there was a panel discussion with representatives from Allen & Overy, The Law Society, the Institute Read More
At the recent Professional Marketing Forum conference (I wrote a review for the magazine which was published on 1st November) http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ futurologist Chris Yapp gave his view on the future of professional firms. He referred to the recent research by Deloitte/Oxford University which focused on the impact of artificial intelligence Read More
I was struck at a recent PM training course “Towards KAM – helping fee-earners with client relationship management” that there were a number of business development professionals in professional service firms who were in dedicated key account management roles. So books on Key Account Management (KAM) are topical and I reviewed Read More
I produced an overview of my work during the year (see http://kimtasso.com/whats-new/work-update/) but have summarised below three key reflections on the year and thus the main focus for action in 2015 for professional service firms: 1. Lead with strategy – Some have it. Many don’t. Everyone talks about it. Industries Read More
