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2019/2020  KAN-CIBMO1003U  Business to Business Sales and Relations Management

English Title
Business to Business Sales and Relations Management

Course information

Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Spring
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for Master of Arts (MA) in International Business Communication in English
Course coordinator
  • Christian Schönström-lund - Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
Main academic disciplines
  • Customer behaviour
  • Communication
  • Cultural studies
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 12-08-2020

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Learning objectives
  • analyze business markets, customer organizations and decision making processes in organizations and propose and evaluate sales strategies
  • link the overall strategy of the company to concrete sales activities
  • be able to propose organizational structures, training and HR development that enable the execution of strategy
  • analyze the personal qualities needed in order to perform efficiently in different kinds of business to business relations.
  • analyze and explain the role of trust and culture in developing lasting customer relations
  • critically evaluate different approaches to business to business sales and their contribution to overall strategy
  • critically asses advantages and disadvantages of different sales execution strategies and of organizations and training programs related to business to business sales and marketing
Examination
Business to Business Sales and Relations Management:
Exam ECTS 7,5
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 10 pages
Assignment type Written assignment
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) Internal examiner and external examiner
Exam period Summer
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
The re-take will take place as a hand-in of a given case. The students will have 48 hours to answer the case.
Description of the exam procedure

 

 

 

 

Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

The purpose of this course is to train students to analyze the motives and demand patterns of the organisation’s external stakeholders and to manage stakeholder relations. The course offers an overview of the various types of actors and relationships the organization must relate to and manage, focusing in particular on industrial customers and professional sale and cooperation.      

 

Students will gain insight into

 

  • the strategic importance of customer relations in business to business marketing as a means to achieve the organization’s overall strategic goals, including how sales managers and other customer facing personnel implement and transform strategic goals into concrete sales strategies.

 

  • how to create and maintain customer loyalty through communication and personal relationship-building. The students will both develop a theoretical understanding of developing the appropriate relationships as well as a practical proficiency in consultative communication. 

     

  • how departments such as HR and marketing which are not directly involves in sales and cooperation with partner companies may contribute to the attainment of the organization’s business to business goals.

     

  • the various forms ofbusiness to business cooperation, ranging from short term sales to joint product development and marketing

     

  • the factors that determine customer satisfaction and loyalty through the delivery of superior value to customers in complex business to business sales, in consulting and cooperation with other organizations.

     

  • the buying and decision making behavior of organizations and how to interact with customer organizations.
     

Literature: 

 

Cravens, Le Menier-Fitzhugh and Piercy

The Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management

 

Byron Matthews and Tamara Schenck

Sales Enablement

 

Mark Roberge

The Sales Acceleration Formula

Description of the teaching methods
Lectures and case-discussions
Feedback during the teaching period
Takes place during lectures.
Student workload
Lectures 49 hours
preparation and exam 105 hours
Last updated on 12-08-2020