‘TRUST’ – THE PARTNERSHIP GLUE
How strong is the relationship with your most important customer? Over the last 15 years we have been researching and exploring trust as an indicator of partnership strength.
Whe… Read more
Customer Attuned Director to Speak at British Academy of Management Conference
Mark Hollyoake – Customer Attuned Director has been accepted to present a paper at the BAM conference
The paper; ‘What’s in a Name’: re-defining B2B Tr… Read more
Trust as a business developer
Customer Attuned Director, Mark Hollyoake, speaks at Xtend London event. The audience was made up of senior Directors from a wide range of industry sectors. During the talk, Mark… Read more
The DNA of Trust
Trust in a B2B context has received increasing attention in recent years, as organisations recognize its role in relationship development.
In this blog, using insight from lite… Read more
Trust in Me ~ now three years in
Mark Hollyoake shares insights from his doctorate on trust within B2B
What do we really know about trust? It may be the subject of numerous books and conference papers, bandied abo… Read more
Working with Distributors – Back to Basics
In this article, we unpick some of the common complexities of working with distributors; getting back to basics.
Contrary to most organisation’s belief, it’s possible to im… Read more
The Softer Side of Trust Building
When looking at literature on B2B trust and empirical evidence on building a trust based relationship, I identified drivers which fall into two distinct categories:
HARD: the pr… Read more
Customer Plan – Just the Numbers
When asking for the customer plans, I am constantly amazed when all I’m shown is an excel spreadsheet of forecast numbers, supported by a three month deal promo plan. Sounds fami… Read more
Tesco Determines to Rebuild Supplier Trust
Supermarket giant Tesco has been ordered to make “significant changes” in the way it deals with suppliers after the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) found that the supermar… Read more
The Golden Threads: Part 11 (of 12): Ways of Working
This series of blogs explores twelve “golden threads” of critical capability across the CAA® model and considers their application in B2B customer management (CM). All of… Read more
