This document provides guidance on key account management. It discusses identifying strategically important customers and managing those customer relationships to achieve competitive advantage. It recommends tiering customers into categories like platinum, gold, silver, and lead based on factors like loyalty, importance, and potential. It also provides tips for staffing key account teams, setting account objectives and strategies, and implementing processes to effectively manage key customer relationships. The overall message is that strategic account management is crucial for growth and requires understanding customers' needs and developing the entire organization and its resources to deliver value to key accounts.