Review a case study of TVO and how they used Microsoft Dynamics CRM as well as other technologies to manage customer service cases in several verticals.
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About TVO
• Vision to create a better world through the power of learning
• Provides learning opportunities through
• Innovative educational products
• In-depth current affairs
• Ground-breaking documentaries
• Award-winning TVOKids resources
• Funded by the Province of Ontario as a registered charity
supported by sponsors and donors.
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Why TVO Chose MS Dynamics CRM
• Already had MS Dynamics NAV
• Looking for a constituent relationship management tool
• Multi-year, multi-phase implementation roadmap
• Needed a tool to support TVO’s pivot to digital product focus
• Already using many point solutions: Sales Force, Word docs, spreadsheets,
Outlook, Gmail, rolodexes, contact now, etc.
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TVO’s Technical Environment
• On-prem deployment of MS Dynamics CRM 2013
• ClickDimensions (online marketing tool)
• iATS payment gateway
• Outlook connector
• Portal connector with Sitefinity
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TVO’s Use Cases
• The Agenda with Steve Paikin
• Database of expert guests
• Contact records with custom fields and custom entities
• CEO’s office contacts
• Database of contacts shared across the organization
• Contact records with security on some fields
• ILC online registration and payment
• Gather required information through series of online forms, supports review and approval of
course registrations
• ClickDimensions forms, Contact records, custom fields and entities, integration with Student
Information System
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TVO’s Use Cases (cont’d)
Product Marketing
• mPower (TVO’s online K-6 math suite used in classrooms) & TeachOntario (TVO’s “Facebook
for Teachers”) teacher email marketing & newsletter production
• ClickDimensions toolkit, Contact records with custom fields, Portal Connector to refresh CRM
data with new users’ info
Product Support
• mPower, TeachOntario,viewer questions (email, phone and in-person)
• Emails converted to cases, Outlook connector, Knowledge Base articles, escalation of cases
where required, dashboards for content managers
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TVO’s Use Cases (cont’d)
• Short Docs Contest Entry Form
• Online entry form for Short Docs contest
• ClickDimensions form to capture contact information (including click through
agreement to rules and regulations)
• Contact records with custom fields
• Custom entities (including links to actual video files)
• Dashboards for contest stakeholders (including judges)
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Takeways from TVO’s experience
• Decreased processing time in every single deployment
• Increased visibility for process stakeholders
• Small organization with limited budget does a lot with CRM – internal-facing and external-facing
• Evolution, not revolution
• Any use case involving people if CRM-able
• Can get started very quickly to allow your organization to get used to the tool
• CRM is a Microsoft product…very familiar to MS Office suite users and NAV users
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Service
• MS Dynamics CRM huge resource pool
• Add-ons to extend functionality
• Data, social listening, online forms, subscription management, integrations, online
retail
• Cost effective!
• Any use case involving people (and don’t they all) is a candidate for using
CRM
Have this slide up as people enter the room
Note: I refer to the application as “Microsoft Dynamics CRM”, MS has rebranded it MS Dynamics 365
Formerly???!!! Left TVO at the end of December
Worked all over the organization before landing in IT. I have been in your shoes – work to be done but no good tool!
Goal is to get you excited about CRM and thinking about how you can use CRM in your organization – hoping that TVO’ experience will provide some insights/learnings
Who has heard of MS Dynamics CRM?
Who uses CRM now?
Who is considering using CRM?
Provincial agency, procurement, oversight, security conscious!
Provinces’ largest high school
Registered charity
Creator of digital learning products used in classrooms
As the technological extension of Ontario’s public education system, TVO’s vision is to create a better world through the power of learning. TVO provides learning opportunities for Ontarians through innovative educational products, in-depth current affairs, ground-breaking documentaries, and award-winning TVOKids resources both inside and outside the classroom. TVO is funded primarily by the Province of Ontario and is a registered charity supported by sponsors and thousands of donors.
Donor management
Product marketing
Product support
Government relations
TV Program guest management
Event production
Contest management
General contact management
Steve Paikin and CEO – very standard CRM stuff, fancy rolodex, allows you to keep notes, form relationships
Steve Paikin – data mining to spot patterns of guest over- or under-use
very standard CRM conversion path, leads, stewardship, conversion to user. Market new releases, new features. Contests, “refer-a-friend”
Product support – very standard case management, only differerence for human services orgs would be the field names
very standard CRM conversion path, leads, stewardship, conversion to user. Market new releases, new features. Contests, “refer-a-friend”
Product support – very standard case management, only differerence for human services orgs would be the field names
Easy transition to using this tool
Super flexible…anything starting with people can be suported by CRM
This is what we all think of when we hear the letters C-R-M
People management
Case management
Data that is easy to access
go online, check it out!
Microsoft pricing!!
Have this helped move the needle for any of you? Are any of you considering CRM now that you’ve heard about another like-minded organization’s use cases for CRM?