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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