Friday, 20 September 2013

CHAPTER 11: Building a Customer-Centric Organization – Customer Relationship Management

          CRM enables an organization to:
      Provide better customer service
      Make call centers more efficient
      Cross sell products more effectively
      Help sales staff close deals faster
      Simplify marketing and sales processes
      Discover new customers
      Increase customer revenues
          Organizations can find their most valuable customers through “RFM” - Recency, Frequency, and Monetary value
      How recently a customer purchased items (Recency)
      How frequently a customer purchased items (Frequency)
      How much a customer spends on each purchase (Monetary Value)

EVOLUTION OF CRM
          CRM reporting technology – help organizations identify their customers across other applications
          CRM analysis technologies – help organization segment their customers into categories such as best and worst customers
          CRM predicting technologies – help organizations make predictions regarding customer behavior such as which customers are at risk of leaving
          Operational CRM – supports traditional transactional processing for day-to-day front-office operations or systems that deal directly with the customers
          Analytical CRM – supports back-office operations and strategic analysis and includes all systems that do not deal directly with the customers

CRM SUCCESS FACTORS
          CRM success factors include:
1. Clearly communicate the CRM strategy
– ensuring that all departments and employees understand
2.Define information needs and flows
– the organization must understand all of the different ways that information flows
3. Build an integrated view of the customer
– the CRM system must support the organization's strategies and goals
  1. Implement in iterations
  2. Scalability for organizational growth
                      3.    Implement in iterations
                              – avoid the big-bang approach and implement in small, manageable, pieces
                      4.    Scalability for organizational growth
                             – ensure the system can support the organization's future growth


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