The key findings from the document are:
1) Companies are looking to CRM to improve performance and grow business, but CRM success can be improved significantly from less than 15% to over 70% by focusing on key steps.
2) The steps that have the greatest impact on CRM success are human-oriented steps like change management and process change, not big ticket technology items.
3) Some CRM success drivers are consistent across situations, while others vary depending on geography, company size and scope, and other influencers. Change management and process change always contribute strongly to success.
This document summarizes the key findings of a study examining the value and success that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are achieving through the use of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The study surveyed 300 SME CRM customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa. It found that 31% of SMEs placed their CRM at the heart of their business to support overall growth. However, the majority focused on measuring individual factors like process efficiency and productivity. The top benefits reported were centralization of customer data, improved data quality and value, and improved visibility of communications and activities.
CRM for Sales: 5 things yours should be doingRedspire Ltd
This document discusses 5 things that a sales CRM solution should be doing to help sales teams. It outlines that a good CRM solution can help teams by increasing automation through lead scoring and routing, creating better forecasting and reporting using live data, boosting alignment between sales and marketing through shared access and dashboards, allowing mobile access to customer information, and driving the benefits of CRM through training and advocacy to gain buy-in from sales. The document provides examples for each of how a CRM can deliver these benefits to improve sales productivity and success.
This document summarizes a strategy for implementing a CRM (customer relationship management) system at a public research centre. It begins by defining CRM and identifying key success factors, including overcoming resistance to change, aligning the CRM strategy with the organization, adopting a customer-centric approach, and ensuring technological maturity. It then outlines the CRM implementation strategy for the research centre, focusing on why CRM is being adopted and how the implementation will address the critical success factors.
As part of our mission to help companies make the best software selection decisions. The goal was to answer some of the critical questions that companies should ask themselves before embarking on this business task.
This document provides an overview of key principles for successful customer relationship management (CRM). It discusses that CRM is first and foremost a business strategy, not just a software purchase, and companies must define their CRM strategy based on their goals, customers, and environment. The document outlines that a CRM strategy should aim to effectively manage the customer lifecycle from acquisition to retention. It also notes that common CRM goals among companies include obtaining a 360-degree view of customers, automating sales processes, and gaining insights to improve customer experiences.
Customer relationship management (CRM) involves capturing, storing, and analyzing customer information to better manage relationships and meet customer needs. Electronic CRM (ECRM) uses internet, email, wireless technologies to contact customers, allowing for personalized experiences and more efficient marketing. While ECRM provides benefits like increased profits and loyalty, pitfalls include high costs and complexity. For ECRM projects to succeed, companies must develop customer-focused strategies, reengineer processes, provide training and security, and implement within 90 days.
The document discusses justifying the costs of customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives and boosting their return on investment. It states that few enterprises actually measure CRM ROI despite most claiming to calculate total cost of ownership or measure benefits. The document advocates calculating costs and benefits to build a strong business case for CRM and help ensure expected returns. It also stresses the importance of aligning CRM costs with the business units receiving benefits to encourage continued support and updates.
This document summarizes the key findings of a study examining the value and success that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are achieving through the use of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The study surveyed 300 SME CRM customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa. It found that 31% of SMEs placed their CRM at the heart of their business to support overall growth. However, the majority focused on measuring individual factors like process efficiency and productivity. The top benefits reported were centralization of customer data, improved data quality and value, and improved visibility of communications and activities.
CRM for Sales: 5 things yours should be doingRedspire Ltd
This document discusses 5 things that a sales CRM solution should be doing to help sales teams. It outlines that a good CRM solution can help teams by increasing automation through lead scoring and routing, creating better forecasting and reporting using live data, boosting alignment between sales and marketing through shared access and dashboards, allowing mobile access to customer information, and driving the benefits of CRM through training and advocacy to gain buy-in from sales. The document provides examples for each of how a CRM can deliver these benefits to improve sales productivity and success.
This document summarizes a strategy for implementing a CRM (customer relationship management) system at a public research centre. It begins by defining CRM and identifying key success factors, including overcoming resistance to change, aligning the CRM strategy with the organization, adopting a customer-centric approach, and ensuring technological maturity. It then outlines the CRM implementation strategy for the research centre, focusing on why CRM is being adopted and how the implementation will address the critical success factors.
As part of our mission to help companies make the best software selection decisions. The goal was to answer some of the critical questions that companies should ask themselves before embarking on this business task.
This document provides an overview of key principles for successful customer relationship management (CRM). It discusses that CRM is first and foremost a business strategy, not just a software purchase, and companies must define their CRM strategy based on their goals, customers, and environment. The document outlines that a CRM strategy should aim to effectively manage the customer lifecycle from acquisition to retention. It also notes that common CRM goals among companies include obtaining a 360-degree view of customers, automating sales processes, and gaining insights to improve customer experiences.
Customer relationship management (CRM) involves capturing, storing, and analyzing customer information to better manage relationships and meet customer needs. Electronic CRM (ECRM) uses internet, email, wireless technologies to contact customers, allowing for personalized experiences and more efficient marketing. While ECRM provides benefits like increased profits and loyalty, pitfalls include high costs and complexity. For ECRM projects to succeed, companies must develop customer-focused strategies, reengineer processes, provide training and security, and implement within 90 days.
The document discusses justifying the costs of customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives and boosting their return on investment. It states that few enterprises actually measure CRM ROI despite most claiming to calculate total cost of ownership or measure benefits. The document advocates calculating costs and benefits to build a strong business case for CRM and help ensure expected returns. It also stresses the importance of aligning CRM costs with the business units receiving benefits to encourage continued support and updates.
Making CRM Work. The 5 Critical Success Factors.QGate
From our two decades of knowledge and experience, we believe there are 5 areas that are crucial in making a CRM project a success.
Over the last couple of decades, we have had the pleasure of working with customers, helping them to realise the value of their data. There to listen, understand their business needs and guide them through the challenge of turning their data into a profitable asset.
At QGate, we make CRM work. This may seem a bold statement, but it’s true. Over the years, we have experienced the highs and the lows of CRM. We’ve witnessed project failures and the all too common pitfalls that are out there. In many situations, we’ve heard customers blame their previous supplier for the failure, but this is not always true.
We're proud of the many successful CRM projects that QGate have been part of and the long standing relationships we have developed. All of these experiences have shaped who we are today and our belief that there are 5 crucial areas in making a CRM project a success.
If you have a few minutes, take a look at our introductory video which outlines what we believe are the 5 critical success factors for a CRM project.
Hopefully that has given you some food for thought. We wish you every success with your own CRM project.
http://www.qgate.co.uk/qgate-we-make-crm-work/
In the effort to meet the challenges of the digital age - social, mobile and always on - many business transformation efforts fall short, and some even fail. Our own client project results greatly exceed analysts' reported results across a variety of industries. How can you ensure yours is successful? Here we distill some common aspects of success, shared by our clients, into a set of essential conversations you may wish to consider for for your organization.
The document provides an overview of customer relationship management (CRM). It discusses that CRM focuses on understanding customer needs and creating value through relationships rather than just transactions. CRM involves gathering customer data, customizing communications and offers, and using integrated systems to support relationship management across departments. The goal is to encourage repeat purchases and reduce customers switching to competitors by delivering superior personalized service and value.
Customer relationship management in mis (2)Sahil Kamdar
This document discusses customer relationship management (CRM) and its implementation at Audi. It begins with defining CRM and outlining the main types of CRM implementation models. It then discusses the benefits and challenges of CRM systems. The document uses Audi as a case study, providing background on the company and its goal of using CRM to create more holistic customer relationships. Specifically, Audi's CRM vision aims to acquire and retain long-term customers by working closely with dealerships to deliver personalized offers to valuable customers and drive loyalty. Audi implemented mySAP CRM 4.0 and SAP BW 3.1 to achieve this vision.
Introduction to Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Vish Ramakonar
This document discusses Customer Relationship Management (CRM). It provides an overview of CRM, including what CRM is, why it is important for businesses, current challenges businesses face without CRM, what CRM can achieve, typical usage of CRM systems, and common CRM tools. The document uses examples and diagrams to illustrate how CRM can help businesses improve customer satisfaction, operational processes, productivity, and reporting and analytics.
The document provides information about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). It defines ERP as a solution that facilitates integrated information systems across business functions. It explains that CRM involves using technology to organize customer interactions and processes like sales, marketing, and support. The document also summarizes some key CRM software vendors like SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce and discusses potential positive and negative business impacts as well as management considerations of implementing a CRM system.
Readiness for CRM - 11 Steps to Plan & Prepare for CRMPreact Ltd
Presentation demonstrating 11 key steps to help businesses plan and prepare for Customer Relationship Management readiness.
Preact are a UK based consultancy partner helping organisations achieve outstanding success from their CRM strategy.
Visit http://www.preact.co.uk to learn more.
CRM, or customer relationship management, refers to concepts used by organizations to manage relationships with customers. It involves capturing leads, storing and analyzing customer data, and internal organizational information. CRM has three main aspects - operational, collaborative, and analytical. Operationally, CRM automates front office sales, service, and marketing processes. Collaboratively, it allows direct customer interaction without sales representative interference through automated communications. Analytically, CRM is used to optimize marketing effectiveness, customer retention, and decision making through customer data analysis. The top CRM software vendors in 2005 were SAP, Siebel, Oracle, Salesforce, and Amdocs.
A strategic docket for optimizing profitability and ensuring business continuity by aligning organisational focus, processes and products to customer values.
This document discusses customer relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA). It covers key aspects of CRM like collecting customer touchpoints, sales force issues, and using SFA as a cross-functional activity. It also describes components of SFA like contact management, lead management, and sales process management. Strategic advantages of SFA include increased productivity and customer satisfaction, while disadvantages include costs and difficulty integrating with other systems. The document provides an overview of CRM and SFA concepts.
Customer relationship management (CRM) refers to the processes and technologies used to manage relationships with customers. It involves tracking customer interactions across sales, marketing, customer service, and other functions. The key components of CRM include contact and account management, sales, marketing and fulfillment, customer service and support, and retention and loyalty programs. CRM systems allow companies to better understand customer needs and provide personalized customer experiences.
This document discusses customer relationship management (CRM). It defines CRM as creating and enhancing individualized customer relationships to maximize lifetime customer value. CRM originated in the 1970s to deal with customer relationships beyond individual business transactions. The purpose of CRM is to create value for both customers and companies over the long term by providing good customer service and gaining a competitive advantage. CRM involves acquiring, retaining, understanding, and differentiating customers through interactions and delivering on their needs over the business cycle. The benefits of CRM include reduced costs, increased customer satisfaction and retention, and long term profitability.
Customer Relationship Management. If you are a startup or business looking to buy a CRM software for your business this slide share will help you out immensely. 1Click team has spent time analyzing customers and CRM softwares to come up with this. SalesForce, Zoho, Microsoft... no matter which CRM you are evaluating for your business this you will find this immensely useful in decision making.
1Click live video chat, the best video chat solution for businesses and startups. 1click lets you have live conversations with visitors on your website. Our chat widget allows you to start video conversations with your customers or clients within seconds. No add-on, no plugin, no extension, your customers are truly one click away from having an audio or video conversation with you. 1Click live video chat allows multipoint face-to-face chat without any software installations, and perform cross-platform video conferencing; so that you need not worry what OS the visitor is using. Your customer can connect with your customer service representatives from anywhere, any device. Our live chat widget enables video, audio, and text on any website or mobile app. Further, our Wordpress live chat plugin, Shopify live chat plugin, Joomla live chat plugin, Drupal live chat plugin, blog live chat plugin and other similar live chat plugin will enables video and audio calling abilities on any website. Providing a live video customer support has never been easier before. Our customer support tool let's you make your customer go WOW.
With our SalesForce live chat plugin, Zoho live chat plugin, Jira live chat plugin, SugarCRM live chat plugin, and other similar live chat extensions you can start off every chat knowing whether there are any outstanding tickets, cases, or notes related to the customer. Similarly, you can create cases, notes or tickets for the customer anytime during the conversation. All the data on your 1Click live chat dashboard can be integrated with Salesforce, Zoho, Jira, SugarCRM or any other customer relationship management software you are using.
We know very that customer engagement is a team activity. 1Click live video chat widget lets you seamlessly chat with or transfer conversations to other agents. Our live chat widget comes with website statistics, and chat analytics available at your fingertips all the time. We take security very seriously. Enjoy secure encrypted chats on your SSL (https) web pages. All the video chats, audio chats, and text chats are 128 bit AES encrypted. We are developer friendly. Extend and customize the behavior of the widget. Be unique, and get creative with our Javascript APIs. Powered, and constantly upgraded with the latest web technologies such as webRTC we enable real-time communication over web (read browser). webRTC live chat, we believe will be the future of communication. 1Click live chat software will help you increase customer sastisfaction and multiply online sales.
http://1click.io
Customer relationship management (CRM) systems allow companies to better understand and interact with customers. CRM involves tracking key customer data like contacts, purchases, and preferences using software. This enables companies to provide personalized customer service, implement targeted marketing campaigns, and ultimately improve customer retention and profits. While CRM software is important, a successful strategy also requires changes to company policies and culture to be fully customer-centric.
This document discusses justifying a CRM investment through a strong business case and ROI analysis. It provides examples of CRM performance metrics and considerations for CRM implementation planning. Key factors for a successful CRM justification include tangible benefits like increased revenue and cost savings, strategic alignment, and linking the decision to other strategic and infrastructure factors.
The document discusses a workshop on customer relationship management (CRM), databases, and the web. It covers how CRM involves capturing customer information from various sources and channels to better understand customers and target them. Effective CRM requires an integrated strategy, structure, and skills across the organization to deploy what is known about customers for competitive advantage.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a strategy and process to build relationships with valuable customers through acquiring, retaining, and partnering with them. CRM uses technology to integrate customer data across departments to increase profits and productivity. It puts customers at the core of a company's processes. Call centers have benefited from CRM by using customer data collected from calls to provide better customer service and increase customer satisfaction. CRM software allows call centers to store valuable customer information that representatives can access to handle calls more efficiently with shorter call times and improved customer understanding. This leads to increased productivity and customer loyalty for call centers.
The document outlines 8 key characteristics of a successful CRM implementation: 1) having a clear CRM vision and leadership, 2) developing CRM strategies around objectives, segments, and customer interactions, 3) creating a valued customer experience through understanding needs, monitoring satisfaction, and acting on feedback, 4) fostering organizational collaboration around customer understanding, 5) establishing CRM processes around the customer lifecycle and knowledge management, 6) leveraging CRM information like customer data and analytics, 7) utilizing CRM technology applications and infrastructure, and 8) defining CRM metrics around value, retention, satisfaction and loyalty.
This document discusses positioning techniques for mobile devices, comparing Android and iPhone approaches. It covers GPS, WiFi, and cellular positioning methods, as well as APIs available on each platform. Location-based services that require continuous tracking can significantly drain batteries; the document discusses various approaches to address this problem and improve energy efficiency of positioning algorithms.
This thesis proposes and evaluates a compressive sensing (CS)-based indoor positioning and tracking system using received signal strength (RSS) from wireless local area network access points. The system is designed and implemented on mobile devices with limited resources.
In the offline phase, RSS fingerprints are collected and clustered using affinity propagation. In the online phase, coarse localization is done by matching RSS measurements to precomputed clusters, and fine localization refines the position using CS recovery on the sparse location signal.
An indoor tracking system is also presented, which integrates the CS-based positioning with a Kalman filter for sequential location estimates. Experimental results on two testbeds show the system achieves better accuracy than other fingerprinting methods, suitable for implementation
Making CRM Work. The 5 Critical Success Factors.QGate
From our two decades of knowledge and experience, we believe there are 5 areas that are crucial in making a CRM project a success.
Over the last couple of decades, we have had the pleasure of working with customers, helping them to realise the value of their data. There to listen, understand their business needs and guide them through the challenge of turning their data into a profitable asset.
At QGate, we make CRM work. This may seem a bold statement, but it’s true. Over the years, we have experienced the highs and the lows of CRM. We’ve witnessed project failures and the all too common pitfalls that are out there. In many situations, we’ve heard customers blame their previous supplier for the failure, but this is not always true.
We're proud of the many successful CRM projects that QGate have been part of and the long standing relationships we have developed. All of these experiences have shaped who we are today and our belief that there are 5 crucial areas in making a CRM project a success.
If you have a few minutes, take a look at our introductory video which outlines what we believe are the 5 critical success factors for a CRM project.
Hopefully that has given you some food for thought. We wish you every success with your own CRM project.
http://www.qgate.co.uk/qgate-we-make-crm-work/
In the effort to meet the challenges of the digital age - social, mobile and always on - many business transformation efforts fall short, and some even fail. Our own client project results greatly exceed analysts' reported results across a variety of industries. How can you ensure yours is successful? Here we distill some common aspects of success, shared by our clients, into a set of essential conversations you may wish to consider for for your organization.
The document provides an overview of customer relationship management (CRM). It discusses that CRM focuses on understanding customer needs and creating value through relationships rather than just transactions. CRM involves gathering customer data, customizing communications and offers, and using integrated systems to support relationship management across departments. The goal is to encourage repeat purchases and reduce customers switching to competitors by delivering superior personalized service and value.
Customer relationship management in mis (2)Sahil Kamdar
This document discusses customer relationship management (CRM) and its implementation at Audi. It begins with defining CRM and outlining the main types of CRM implementation models. It then discusses the benefits and challenges of CRM systems. The document uses Audi as a case study, providing background on the company and its goal of using CRM to create more holistic customer relationships. Specifically, Audi's CRM vision aims to acquire and retain long-term customers by working closely with dealerships to deliver personalized offers to valuable customers and drive loyalty. Audi implemented mySAP CRM 4.0 and SAP BW 3.1 to achieve this vision.
Introduction to Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Vish Ramakonar
This document discusses Customer Relationship Management (CRM). It provides an overview of CRM, including what CRM is, why it is important for businesses, current challenges businesses face without CRM, what CRM can achieve, typical usage of CRM systems, and common CRM tools. The document uses examples and diagrams to illustrate how CRM can help businesses improve customer satisfaction, operational processes, productivity, and reporting and analytics.
The document provides information about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). It defines ERP as a solution that facilitates integrated information systems across business functions. It explains that CRM involves using technology to organize customer interactions and processes like sales, marketing, and support. The document also summarizes some key CRM software vendors like SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce and discusses potential positive and negative business impacts as well as management considerations of implementing a CRM system.
Readiness for CRM - 11 Steps to Plan & Prepare for CRMPreact Ltd
Presentation demonstrating 11 key steps to help businesses plan and prepare for Customer Relationship Management readiness.
Preact are a UK based consultancy partner helping organisations achieve outstanding success from their CRM strategy.
Visit http://www.preact.co.uk to learn more.
CRM, or customer relationship management, refers to concepts used by organizations to manage relationships with customers. It involves capturing leads, storing and analyzing customer data, and internal organizational information. CRM has three main aspects - operational, collaborative, and analytical. Operationally, CRM automates front office sales, service, and marketing processes. Collaboratively, it allows direct customer interaction without sales representative interference through automated communications. Analytically, CRM is used to optimize marketing effectiveness, customer retention, and decision making through customer data analysis. The top CRM software vendors in 2005 were SAP, Siebel, Oracle, Salesforce, and Amdocs.
A strategic docket for optimizing profitability and ensuring business continuity by aligning organisational focus, processes and products to customer values.
This document discusses customer relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA). It covers key aspects of CRM like collecting customer touchpoints, sales force issues, and using SFA as a cross-functional activity. It also describes components of SFA like contact management, lead management, and sales process management. Strategic advantages of SFA include increased productivity and customer satisfaction, while disadvantages include costs and difficulty integrating with other systems. The document provides an overview of CRM and SFA concepts.
Customer relationship management (CRM) refers to the processes and technologies used to manage relationships with customers. It involves tracking customer interactions across sales, marketing, customer service, and other functions. The key components of CRM include contact and account management, sales, marketing and fulfillment, customer service and support, and retention and loyalty programs. CRM systems allow companies to better understand customer needs and provide personalized customer experiences.
This document discusses customer relationship management (CRM). It defines CRM as creating and enhancing individualized customer relationships to maximize lifetime customer value. CRM originated in the 1970s to deal with customer relationships beyond individual business transactions. The purpose of CRM is to create value for both customers and companies over the long term by providing good customer service and gaining a competitive advantage. CRM involves acquiring, retaining, understanding, and differentiating customers through interactions and delivering on their needs over the business cycle. The benefits of CRM include reduced costs, increased customer satisfaction and retention, and long term profitability.
Customer Relationship Management. If you are a startup or business looking to buy a CRM software for your business this slide share will help you out immensely. 1Click team has spent time analyzing customers and CRM softwares to come up with this. SalesForce, Zoho, Microsoft... no matter which CRM you are evaluating for your business this you will find this immensely useful in decision making.
1Click live video chat, the best video chat solution for businesses and startups. 1click lets you have live conversations with visitors on your website. Our chat widget allows you to start video conversations with your customers or clients within seconds. No add-on, no plugin, no extension, your customers are truly one click away from having an audio or video conversation with you. 1Click live video chat allows multipoint face-to-face chat without any software installations, and perform cross-platform video conferencing; so that you need not worry what OS the visitor is using. Your customer can connect with your customer service representatives from anywhere, any device. Our live chat widget enables video, audio, and text on any website or mobile app. Further, our Wordpress live chat plugin, Shopify live chat plugin, Joomla live chat plugin, Drupal live chat plugin, blog live chat plugin and other similar live chat plugin will enables video and audio calling abilities on any website. Providing a live video customer support has never been easier before. Our customer support tool let's you make your customer go WOW.
With our SalesForce live chat plugin, Zoho live chat plugin, Jira live chat plugin, SugarCRM live chat plugin, and other similar live chat extensions you can start off every chat knowing whether there are any outstanding tickets, cases, or notes related to the customer. Similarly, you can create cases, notes or tickets for the customer anytime during the conversation. All the data on your 1Click live chat dashboard can be integrated with Salesforce, Zoho, Jira, SugarCRM or any other customer relationship management software you are using.
We know very that customer engagement is a team activity. 1Click live video chat widget lets you seamlessly chat with or transfer conversations to other agents. Our live chat widget comes with website statistics, and chat analytics available at your fingertips all the time. We take security very seriously. Enjoy secure encrypted chats on your SSL (https) web pages. All the video chats, audio chats, and text chats are 128 bit AES encrypted. We are developer friendly. Extend and customize the behavior of the widget. Be unique, and get creative with our Javascript APIs. Powered, and constantly upgraded with the latest web technologies such as webRTC we enable real-time communication over web (read browser). webRTC live chat, we believe will be the future of communication. 1Click live chat software will help you increase customer sastisfaction and multiply online sales.
http://1click.io
Customer relationship management (CRM) systems allow companies to better understand and interact with customers. CRM involves tracking key customer data like contacts, purchases, and preferences using software. This enables companies to provide personalized customer service, implement targeted marketing campaigns, and ultimately improve customer retention and profits. While CRM software is important, a successful strategy also requires changes to company policies and culture to be fully customer-centric.
This document discusses justifying a CRM investment through a strong business case and ROI analysis. It provides examples of CRM performance metrics and considerations for CRM implementation planning. Key factors for a successful CRM justification include tangible benefits like increased revenue and cost savings, strategic alignment, and linking the decision to other strategic and infrastructure factors.
The document discusses a workshop on customer relationship management (CRM), databases, and the web. It covers how CRM involves capturing customer information from various sources and channels to better understand customers and target them. Effective CRM requires an integrated strategy, structure, and skills across the organization to deploy what is known about customers for competitive advantage.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a strategy and process to build relationships with valuable customers through acquiring, retaining, and partnering with them. CRM uses technology to integrate customer data across departments to increase profits and productivity. It puts customers at the core of a company's processes. Call centers have benefited from CRM by using customer data collected from calls to provide better customer service and increase customer satisfaction. CRM software allows call centers to store valuable customer information that representatives can access to handle calls more efficiently with shorter call times and improved customer understanding. This leads to increased productivity and customer loyalty for call centers.
The document outlines 8 key characteristics of a successful CRM implementation: 1) having a clear CRM vision and leadership, 2) developing CRM strategies around objectives, segments, and customer interactions, 3) creating a valued customer experience through understanding needs, monitoring satisfaction, and acting on feedback, 4) fostering organizational collaboration around customer understanding, 5) establishing CRM processes around the customer lifecycle and knowledge management, 6) leveraging CRM information like customer data and analytics, 7) utilizing CRM technology applications and infrastructure, and 8) defining CRM metrics around value, retention, satisfaction and loyalty.
This document discusses positioning techniques for mobile devices, comparing Android and iPhone approaches. It covers GPS, WiFi, and cellular positioning methods, as well as APIs available on each platform. Location-based services that require continuous tracking can significantly drain batteries; the document discusses various approaches to address this problem and improve energy efficiency of positioning algorithms.
This thesis proposes and evaluates a compressive sensing (CS)-based indoor positioning and tracking system using received signal strength (RSS) from wireless local area network access points. The system is designed and implemented on mobile devices with limited resources.
In the offline phase, RSS fingerprints are collected and clustered using affinity propagation. In the online phase, coarse localization is done by matching RSS measurements to precomputed clusters, and fine localization refines the position using CS recovery on the sparse location signal.
An indoor tracking system is also presented, which integrates the CS-based positioning with a Kalman filter for sequential location estimates. Experimental results on two testbeds show the system achieves better accuracy than other fingerprinting methods, suitable for implementation
1) The document outlines the basic positions and terms in baseball including the infield positions (pitcher, catcher, first base, second base, third base, short stop), outfield positions (left field, center field, right field), and terms related to batting (walks, hit by pitch, strikeouts).
2) It also provides shorthand for describing defensive plays like "4-3" to indicate a play from second base to first base.
3) Common ways for baserunners to advance like stolen bases, wild pitches, singles, doubles, triples, and home runs are also listed.
Dokumen tersebut memberikan informasi tentang SMP Negeri 18 Semarang, termasuk menu, standar kompetensi dan kompetensi dasar (SK & KD), peta konsep, indikator, materi pelajaran tentang jaringan komputer, latihan soal, dan kunci jawaban.
The document proposes a framework that uses intelligent mobile devices to enable indoor wireless location tracking, navigation, and mobile augmented reality (AR). It discusses using mobile devices equipped with inertial measurement units (IMU) and multi-touch screens to provide user feedback to correct positioning errors. The framework also uses mobile AR through device cameras to help navigate users in complex 3D indoor environments and provide interactive location-based services. A prototype system was developed to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed application framework.
The document discusses various concepts related to consumer behavior and marketing principles including figure and ground perception, proximity, closure, similarity, hedonistic needs, utilitarian needs, logos, positive reinforcement, needs for power and achievement, affiliation, subculture, rituals, subliminal messages, and myths. It provides examples to illustrate concepts like the WWF logo using closure to depict a panda and an album cover using similarity and anomaly. It also discusses using signatures to empower individuals and targeting subconscious perceptions.
Dokumen tersebut memberikan informasi tentang SMP Negeri 18 Semarang, termasuk menu, standar kompetensi dan kompetensi dasar (SK & KD), peta konsep, indikator, materi pelajaran, latihan soal, dan kunci jawaban yang terkait dengan penggunaan internet dan intranet.
Dokumen tersebut membahas tentang teknologi informasi dan komunikasi khususnya penggunaan Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. Dokumen ini menjelaskan tentang standar kompetensi, kompetensi dasar, indikator, fitur-fitur dasar PowerPoint, cara membuat presentasi, mengatur tampilan slide, menyimpan hasil presentasi dan menutup aplikasi PowerPoint. Terdapat pula soal latihan tentang penggunaan dasar PowerPoint.
Lucy Sprague Mitchell influenced America's education system greatly. She created the Bank Street College and her work led to the development of America's head start programs we have today.
Most of my information came from another powerpoint on this slideshare-
http://www.slideshare.net/lisamariedel001/lucy-sprague-mitchell?utm_source=slideshow02&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=share_slideshow
Grape Escape - Game Design Document
Creative Director Vinícius Gottschall
Documentation for game design project for Foundations of Game Design at University Vancouver Island University
The key findings from the document are:
1) Companies are looking to CRM to improve performance and grow business, but CRM success can be improved significantly from less than 15% to over 70% by focusing on key steps.
2) The steps with the greatest impact on CRM success are human-oriented steps like change management and process change, not big ticket technology items.
3) Some CRM success drivers are consistent across situations, while others vary by geography and situation. Change management and process change always contribute strongly to success.
Headache is a common reason patients seek medical attention and can be primary or secondary. Primary headaches include tension-type headaches, which cause bilateral tight band-like pain, and migraines, which often cause severe one-sided throbbing pain accompanied by sensitivity to light, sound, and nausea. Migraines are thought to involve neurovascular and serotonergic mechanisms. Cluster headaches are rare but cause excruciating unilateral orbital or temporal pain and may be associated with autonomic symptoms. Treatment involves acute abortive medications as well as preventive medications depending on headache type and frequency. Secondary headaches require evaluation for underlying causes such as infection, trauma, or vascular abnormalities.
1. The document discusses the basics of neuroimaging using CT and MRI. It explains how different tissues appear on CT and MRI scans and provides examples of normal anatomy.
2. It then covers the systematic approach to interpreting head CT scans and provides various cross-sectional anatomy examples.
3. The document also discusses the physics behind MRI and how tissues appear differently on T1-weighted, T2-weighted, and FLAIR sequences. It includes many labeled MRI images as examples.
The document discusses diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), providing definitions, pathophysiology, precipitating events, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. DKA is defined as hyperglycemia, ketosis, and acidemia. It results from insulin deficiency leading to lipolysis, ketogenesis, and hyperglycemia. Common causes include infection, inadequate insulin, drugs like cocaine, and pregnancy. Treatment involves fluid resuscitation, insulin therapy to lower glucose levels to 140-180 mg/dL, electrolyte replacement, and treating the underlying precipitant once the patient is stabilized. Potassium levels require close monitoring during treatment.
This document discusses the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM) and key aspects of implementing a successful CRM strategy. It notes that CRM has evolved from a transactional approach in the 1980s to focus more on building long-term customer relationships. The document also outlines some common CRM objectives like increasing sales revenue and customer satisfaction. It emphasizes that organizational change management is crucial for CRM implementation and highlights reasons why many CRM projects fail, such as poor planning, communication, and management of people, processes, and technology. The case study of Cigna's failed $1 billion CRM project underscores the importance of thorough planning and avoiding rushed implementations.
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The document discusses new challenges in business due to increasing competition, smaller margins, and less product differentiation, as well as multiple communication channels with customers. It states that companies need to fully understand customer needs, improve efficiencies, provide greater value, focus on relationships over quick sales, and develop customer focus. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is presented as a mechanism to help achieve these goals. CRM involves acquiring, retaining, and servicing customers through policies, processes, and information to increase satisfaction, revenue, and efficiency by building strong customer relationships. The document provides several definitions of CRM and discusses how CRM requires a customer-centric culture and focus on profitable customer segments.
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No one company has written the book on CRM.
And rightly so, says this author, whose
examination of how companies practice this
much-talked about discipline led him to develop
comprehensive guidelines for enhancing a
company's returns from CRM.
By Ian Gordon
Ian Gordon is President of Convergence
Management Consultants Ltd., (www.converge.ca),
and the author of Competitor Targeting: Winning
the Battle for Market and Customer Share (Wiley,
2002).
That few companies are achieving the results they
expected from their investment in Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) is not news. That
most companies continue to invest in CRM without a
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surprising, since there are few best practices in CRM
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organization
A definition and a vision
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practice companies adopt one that is shared across
the organization. Otherwise, the very term "CRM"
will conjure up many things to different people and
lead to confusion. These companies see CRM as a
series of strategies and processes that support and
execute a relationship vision for the enterprise. In
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customers, builds preference for their organizations
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association with their customers.
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developing the only asset of the enterprise that matters
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valuable customers. By sharing the definition, they can
put the customer first and avoid sending their staff into
cycles of interminable CRM programming.
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will change their companies. Some develop the vision
according to attributes that are important to both the
customer and the company. These include attributes that
affect customers' perceptions of value, how they can
bond with the organization, product and company
preference and purchase intent.
This vision sometimes changes as the firm gains
experience in CRM and as technology makes new things
possible. For example, at a major Canadian bank, the
vision has evolved. Initially the vision was associated
with the development of customer information ...
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1. IBM Business Consulting Services
Doing CRM right: What it takes to be successful with CRM
Executive summary view, CRM global study
deeper
Executive brief
2. Contents
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Doing CRM right: What it takes to be successful with CRM
Doing CRM right: What it
takes to be successful with
CRM - Executive summary
view, CRM global survey
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Key findings from the global
CRM study
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Success driver analysis
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Across the global business community today, it is common knowledge that "doing
CRM right" is not a mantra to be taken lightly. When achieved, CRM done right
can significantly impact and transform a company, helping enable it to grow more
profitably by serving its customers more intelligently. At its best and fullest, CRM does
more than just automate a call center or improve a sales report; for those companies
up to the challenge of "doing CRM right," it can transform them – culturally,
structurally, and strategically. CRM done right can make companies more:
Influencers of impact
11 Rules of thumb
• Responsive and targeted in the way they interact with customers
15 Conclusion
16 About the authors
• Educated and smarter about extending product and services offerings
16 About IBM Business
Consulting Services
• Strategically in-tune with customer needs and values so that delivering on
customer expectations enhances competitive advantage.
17 Appendix
Trouble is, CRM is done right less than 15 percent of the time across the globe. In
America, Europe and Asia, 85 percent of companies, large and small, are not feeling
fully successful with CRM, according to an IBM Global CRM Survey of over 370
companies across industries.
21 For further detail
21 References
This is the executive summary
of a three-part global series
It turns out, doing CRM wrong is much more common than getting it right. To the
chagrin of many companies – from those with double-digit billion dollar annual
revenues and up to US$100 billion in assets, to small businesses with less than
US$50 million in annual revenue – CRM has yet to achieve the promised ROI goals
that made it so appealing in the first place. Furthermore, in many cases, customers
have yet to notice a decisive difference. Why? What is happening?
of white papers on “Doing
CRM Right,” a global CRM
study conducted by IBM
Business Consulting Services.
Within the series, there is
a paper focused on each
major geography – Americas,
Most importantly, CRM continues to hold great promise for companies, with over 50
percent of companies surveyed believing CRM is relevant to increasing performance
from a shareholder value perspective, and 65 to 75 percent looking to CRM as
important in delivering revenue growth through improved customer experiences,
retaining and growing existing customer bases, increasing customer acquisition
rates and influencing development of new product and services. CRM can deliver
great value; to fully realize this value, companies must improve success of CRM (see
Figure 1). What is being done about it? Of those 15 percent of companies that are
fully successful, what is driving CRM success, and how are they different than the
20 to 30 percent having some success, and the remaining 55 to 65 percent that are
truly struggling? How can this success be replicated to improve CRM performance
in other companies so that CRM yields its full potential?
EMEA (Europe, Middle East
and Africa) and Asia Pacific.
Each paper includes both a
global results section with
key findings (common across
all papers) and a geographyspecific section with results
pertaining to the specific
geography being evaluated.
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3. Figure 1. The compelling need for CRM.
Competition is requiring it
• Profitability – CRM promises new customers; more value from existing customers; improved marketing,
sales, and service; better customer relationships
• Differentiation – Customer service/satisfaction becoming a greater piece of a company’s value proposition
Stakeholders are demanding it
• Shareholders – Pressure from Wall Street to make better use of customer data
• Customers – Want convenience of multichannel access with seamless customer experience
• Employees – Require integrated 360-degree view to provide improved customer satisfaction, customized
offerings, and faster response time
Business transformation is relying on it
• Enterprisewide – Companies need to be outward-facing versus inward-focused
• Integration/unification – Communicate across silos and databases, and show one face to the customer
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, 2004.
IBM Business Consulting Services set out to explore answers to these questions by
reaching out to hundreds of executives across the world, through both qualitative
interviews and a structured quantitative survey administered to a highly credible,
global, executive panel from the Economist Intelligence Unit. IBM Business Consulting
Services worked closely with a steering committee and an advisory board of CRM
business experts from each major geography to help ensure market relevancy of
research questions and results. The good news and single most compelling finding
from the global study is that the likelihood of CRM success can be improved significantly within a company; clear guidelines, when applied during CRM implementation,
bolster CRM success rates from less than 15 percent to greater than 70 percent, and
in some cases up to 80 percent. That equates to a 55 to 65 percent greater likelihood
of success, which is certainly significant. How compelling is the potential to boost
CRM success rates by 55 percent or more?
Scenario 1: Consumer products industry
Suppose you are a Global 1000 consumer products company, spending tens of millions of dollars on a
multiyear CRM effort. You are relying on CRM to transform your business from a siloed and inward-facing
organization, with 15 sales organizations, 10 brands, numerous billing systems, disaggregated customer
relationships and disparate 1980’s computing platforms into one integrated company that is performing
above par with competitors? The stakes are high at this level of investment, so improving your likelihood
of success by 55 percent is more than compelling, it is essential.
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4. Scenario 2: Financial services industry
Or, what if you are a multinational financial services provider with billions of dollars in assets under
management, operating in numerous markets with differing regulatory issues and cultural challenges. In
your competitive environment, many of the strongest competitors are one or two years ahead of you with
CRM practices, enabling them to offer:
• Tailored investment products and services to customers, based on their ability to view full customer
portfolios and complete transaction histories in realtime
• Full online investing capabilities and financial advisors who are highly knowledgeable about each
customer’s financial needs?
If customers continue to migrate to the competition at the current rate, your assets under management
will attrite in the next two years. Even one to two percent shrinkage translates to multimillion dollar
losses, and greater impact will be felt in reduction of future growth potential if it turns out these
losses are your best customers. Increasing the likelihood of CRM success by 55 percent is more than
compelling, it means survival.
Key findings from the global CRM study
The information in this paper is valuable because, with the right information – knowing
top CRM success drivers, as well as the contribution and prioritization optimal to
succeed – executives can plan for and guide CRM success. The results shared here
arm CRM executives with information they can use to determine resource allocation,
focus areas, and expertise required throughout a CRM implementation.
• Companies are looking to CRM to help them improve performance and
grow overall business. Over 50 percent of companies believe CRM is relevant
or highly relevant to improving performance from a shareholder value perspective.
Sixty-five to 75 percent consider CRM important in delivering revenue growth.
• CRM success can be improved significantly in companies, 55 to 65 percent.
Likelihood of CRM success can be improved significantly within a company,
from less than 15 percent to over 70 percent (and in some cases 80 percent) by
focusing on and prioritizing key CRM approach steps.
• CRM approach steps having the greatest impact are not the big ticket
items, but the human-oriented steps. Differentiating steps are not the big
ticket items, such as technology implementation or customer data integration,
rather, they are the human-oriented steps such as change management and
process change – good news for companies implementing CRM, this means
significant improvement in CRM success for a small incremental spend (relative
to total CRM implementation expenditure).
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5. • Some CRM success drivers are consistent; some vary by geography and
situation. Two CRM approach steps consistently drive CRM success, regardless of
company situation: change management and process change are always differentiators or strong contributors. Other differentiating CRM approach steps are specific
to a company’s situation, impacted by influencers such as competitive environment,
regulatory issues, size and scope of project and company starting point.
• Implementing CRM across borders has economies of scale for multinationals. For multinational companies, certain CRM project plans can be leveraged
globally for economies of scale, such as plans for integration of data/information
and plans for CRM-related organizational change. Others must be dealt with
locally, such as plans for addressing cultural issues and plans for addressing
regulatory issues (taxes, employment law and legal restrictions).
• Proper allocation of resources, focus areas and expertise enhances impact
of success drivers. Knowing contribution to success, difficulty and frequency of
performing each CRM approach step aids executives in planning for CRM success
by identifying: 1) appropriate resource allocation of labor, time and money, 2) focus
areas requiring special emphasis, and 3) when and where expertise is needed.
• Ownership of CRM within companies today is largely in the wrong place.
Nearly three-quarters of companies have division-owned CRM, such as Marketing,
Sales, IT or Customer Service; only one-quarter of companies give ownership of
CRM to Corporate, a senior level team that spans multiple divisions and business
units within a company. However, the study shows that when Corporate owns
CRM, there is a 25 to 50 percent greater chance of success than with other
ownership models.
• Senior management, in over 35 percent of companies, is actually impeding
the success of CRM because it views CRM as useful, not critical. When
senior management views CRM as critical or strategic, study results show it is
a major contributor to overall CRM success. Viewing CRM as useful, not critical
actually detracts from success because it sends a message within the company
that CRM is not a priority.
• One reason projected CRM returns are not being fully realized is
because over 75 percent of companies are not fully using CRM once it is
implemented. This can be attributed in part to companies underestimating the
value of stakeholder alignment; study results show that companies having the
most success with CRM are aligning with the business objectives of employees,
with customer alignment a close second. Yet, only 21 percent of responding
companies view employee alignment as very important to CRM success.
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6. • It comes down to culture, including top-down, ongoing support of senior
executives and clear links to overall corporate goals. A CRM effort of any
magnitude needs to be top-down; if it starts bottom-up, the first item on the
agenda should be to enlist senior management and stakeholder support. This is
because the goals, strategy and performance measures of CRM have to be linked
to those of Corporate. If employees do not see how adopting CRM fits into the big
picture, they will not use it. Similarly, if senior management does not clearly believe
that CRM enhances the company’s overall value proposition, it will be squashed by
competing priorities.
Success driver analysis
Likelihood of CRM success can be improved significantly within a company, from
less than 15 percent to over 70 percent (and in some cases 80 percent) by focusing
on and prioritizing key CRM approach steps. For such a statistic to be of any use,
the rationale behind it must first be explored and understood, and second, it must be
viable and applied. Success with CRM comes down to 16 critical success drivers,
or CRM approach steps, identified as important to success by both CRM executive
decision-makers and influencers of CRM decision-making (see Figure 2). These
CRM approach steps should be prioritized and given full attention throughout the
CRM implementation. Full attention refers both to the resources themselves – the
people, time and budget allocated to a CRM effort – and to the endurance of those
resources, which cannot just be present at the onset to champion CRM, but must
remain integrally involved throughout.
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7. Figure 2. Global drivers of CRM success.
CRM strategy and value
proposition development
Three types of critical
success drivers
Differentiating steps have the
26.0
12.0
Budget process management
highest impact on CRM
11.0
Change management
success, they are the humanoriented steps that, when
Differentiating
steps - 64%
8.2
Governance
done correctly, can sustain
Process change
7.1
the value of CRM; however,
the human aspect of most
Customer data integration and
data ownership
6.6
of these steps makes them
Senior executive and opinion
leader buy-in
5.0
Prioritization of company initiatives
4.9
Implementation road map
more challenging to execute.
4.0
Contributing
steps - 24%
Contributing steps clearly add to
CRM success but alone, they
are not sufficient to derive
3.3
Capabilities and risk assessment
value from CRM.
2.7
Customer needs analysis
Foundation building steps play a
Organizational alignment
not strong contributors.
2.5
Metric development
role and are necessary, but
2.4
Technology implementation
Stakeholder assessment
Foundation building
steps - 12%
1.9
1.8
0.2
Business case and ROI
0
R^2 = .71
5
10
15
20
25
30
Percent contribution to success predicted by the CRM approach steps
Notes: N = 372.
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
To determine the prioritization of drivers and their contribution to CRM success,
analysis focused on the relationship between frequency of performance of key
approach steps and resulting success of CRM initiatives. Executives rated each
approach step and each CRM initiative on a seven-point continuous scale from
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8. never performed to always performed and each CRM initiative from failure to
full success. A multi-variate, linear regression determined that, while performing
a single step in isolation cannot guarantee CRM success, when the steps are
regularly performed in combination with one another and with focus aligned with
the suggested prioritization, they can significantly increase a company’s likelihood of
CRM success, from 15 percent up to 70 percent.1
Influencers of impact
As can be attested by any company that has pursued CRM, especially at the enterprisewide level, there are additional layers of complexity muddying the waters. It
is not as easy as having one analysis that cleanly applies to all companies in all
markets in all situations. This is especially true for multinational companies pursuing
a CRM effort that extends across borders, since there are some parts of CRM that
have global applicability and are easily scalable while others must be addressed
locally (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. Applicability of CRM project plans globally versus locally.
15
Plan for integration of
data/information
85
26
CRM project plans
Plan for CRM-related
organizational changes
74
27
Plan for enabling tools and
approach steps
73
32
Plan for CRM-related
process changes
68
Plan for CRM-related
change management
35
65
Plan for addressing
cultural issues
52
Plan for addressing regulatory
issues (taxes, employment, law,
other legal restrictions)
61
39
0
10
20
30
40
50
Percent of respondents
N =133.
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
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Local applicability
Global applicability
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60
70
80
90
9. There are external and internal influencers that vary the prioritization of the CRM
approach steps in Figure 2, based on their degree of strength and how they interact
with one another in a given environment. These influencers include:
• Geography and cultural issues (including regulatory issues and economic
climate): Is the market served highly fragmented? Is the culture risk-averse or
risk-taking? Does the economic climate dictate cost-cutting or revenue growth?
Do labor laws limit or encourage change and new skill development?
• Company size: Is the company small (under US$50 million in annual revenue)
versus medium or large (greater than US$50 million in annual revenue)?
• CRM scope: Is the planned CRM effort enterprisewide (encompassing the entire
company) or a point implementation (within one division, channel or region)?
• Competitive environment: What is the degree to which competitors have
pursued CRM as a means of competitive advantage? To what extent are current
customers being lured away by the better, more targeted offers and improved
customer experiences of competitors?
• Starting point for CRM: What is the company’s starting point when entering into
a CRM effort? Is the company financially secure and able to afford a full-scale
effort? Are existing technology systems two years or a decade old?
Looking across geographies, some key approach steps, such as change management and process change, appear consistently in the top tier of differentiating steps
or near the top tier, regardless of influencers. Others shift in importance as focus is
adjusted, much like an intensified view through a microscope, to allow for emphasis
given particular situations which may result in one or more influencers significantly
impacting CRM priorities (see Figure 4).
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10. Figure 4. Differentiating CRM approach steps by geography.
Americas
CRM strategy
22.0
Budget management
20.0
Process change
12.0
Governance
9.0
Change management
7.1
0
5
10
15
20
Percent
25
30
35
40
25
30
35
40
EMEA
Capabilities and risk
assessment
Customer data
integration ownership
19.0
18.0
15.0
Process change
Prioritization of
company initiatives
12.0
10.0
Organizational alignment
0
5
10
15
Asia Pacific
20
Percent
Stakeholder assessment
38.0
CRM strategy and value
proposition development
17.0
15.0
Process change
Change management
7.2
6.1
Business case and ROI
0
5
10
15
20
25
Percent
N = 373
Note: In EMEA, change management is a Contributing Step, having 5 percent impact on success.
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
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30
35
40
11. The great value in understanding these success drivers – as well as the difficulty
and frequency of performing each step – is that executives can plan for and guide
CRM success. Study results arm executives with information to help determine
resource allocation, focus areas and the expertise required across CRM approach
steps (see Figure 5). Each quadrant indicates suggested resource allocation and the
opportunity to impact success.
Figure 5. Resource allocation across CRM approach steps.
Opportunity to
increase success
15%
• These steps are
easy but not always
done
• “Governance”
is a clear focus
area because a
differentiator
These steps require
focus; appoint good
managers
Low perceived difficulty and
high performance
C
Senior executive and
opinion leader buy
Performance frequency
Opportunity to
increase success
29%
• These steps are
easy and done
often
• “Budget” is clear
focus area because
a differentiator
No excuses; get these
steps done
High perceived difficulty and
high performance
Customer needs
analysis
F
Implementation road map
Budget process
management
D
Prioritization of
company initiatives
C
Customer data
integration and data
C
Technology
implementation
Governance
Stakeholder
assessment
F
D
D
Business case and ROI
CRM strategy and value proposition
F D
F
C
Capabilities and
risk assessment
Process change
C
F
Organizational
alignment
Metric
development
F
Low perceived difficulty and
low performance
D
Change
management
High perceived difficulty and
low performance
Implementation difficulty
D Differentiating step
Opportunity to increase
success 14%
• These steps are hard
but done often
• “Process” is a clear
focus area because a
differentiator
These steps require
expertise; staff or hire
strong resources
C Contributing step
Opportunity to increase
success 42%
• These steps are hard
and not always done
• “Strategy” and
“Change” clear
focus areas because
differentiators
These steps require expertise
and focus; staff strong
leaders and skilled resources
F Foundation step
Note: "Opportunity to increase success percentage" per quadrant was calculated as sum of the success contribution of the individual
steps in each quadrant (see Figure 2 for the success contribution percentages).
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
The lower right-hand quadrant of Figure 5, for example, shows those steps that
companies find difficult to implement and that are not done frequently. A quick sum
of the impact of steps in this quadrant shows 42 percent improved likelihood of
success when these steps are done correctly. Strong resources should be staffed for
these steps, particularly in strategy and change management since they are differentiating steps contributing 37 percent.
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12. Rules of thumb
With the majority of differentiating steps being the human-oriented steps, it is
absolutely critical that the people involved in a CRM effort are heard, their desires
incorporated and proper leadership accorded them. Not surprisingly, the value of
getting this right is underestimated. In fact, many companies meet their downfall
in CRM by not providing the appropriate senior-level support and ownership.
Companies that downplay the importance of senior management buy-in and
stakeholder alignment are finding that a lukewarm attitude impedes success and
leads directly to lukewarm adoption and use by employees.
Rule 1: Within a company, Corporate should own CRM. When Corporate owns CRM,
there is a 25 to 60 percent greater chance of success than with other ownership
models (see Figure 6A). Today, only 26 percent of global respondents have
Corporate-owned CRM (see Figure 6B).
Figure 6A. Actual impact of CRM ownership on success.
Percent correlation with CRM
initiative success (R^2)
100
88
80
63
60
54
46
40
34
20
0
Corporate
Marketing
Sales
Customer
service
IT
Ownership of CRM
N = 372. 2
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
Figure 6B. Where companies are today: Ownership of CRM within companies.
Percent of respondents
40
35
29
30
26
20
15
12
10
0
Marketing
Sales
Corporate
Customer
service
Ownership of CRM
N = 78.
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
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IT
13. Rule 2: Rally senior management to actively and strongly support CRM as strategic
and critical. Otherwise, there will be trouble ahead.
When senior management supports CRM as critical or strategic, it is a major
contributor to overall CRM success. It turns out, senior management viewing CRM as
useful, not critical actually detracts from success (see Figure 7A); likely because this
mindset sends a message to employees that the CRM effort is not a company priority.
Figure 7A. Actual impact of senior management view on CRM success.
Percent correlation with CRM
initiative success (Pearson’s
correlation coefficient)*
80
76
60
47
40
21
Note: It should not be surprising that the
“IT tool” approach contributes more to
CRM success than the “Useful, not critical”
approach; expectations for CRM as an
IT Tool are typically smaller in scope and
easier to define and track than broader, allencompassing CRM efforts.
20
Useful, not
critical
0
-20
Way of life,
critical
Strategic
enabler
IT tool
-40
-37
Senior management view of CRM
N = 372. 3
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
Many of today’s senior managers are hurting CRM’s chances rather than helping it
by viewing CRM as useful, not critical, yet this is the most common view of CRM by
today’s senior management (see Figure 7B).
Figure 7B. Where companies are today: Senior management view of CRM.
Percent of respondents
40
34
36
30
20
14
13
10
3
0
A way of life,
critical
Strategic
enabler
Useful, not
critical
An IT tool
Senior management view
N = 372.
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
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Not
applicable
14. Rule 3: Pay attention to stakeholder alignment, especially by aligning with
employees; they are as important as customers.
Companies aligning CRM goals with the objectives of employees are realizing the
most success with CRM; those aligning with customer objectives are a close second
(see Figure 8A).
Percent correlation with CRM initiative
success (Pearson’s correlation coefficient)*
Figure 8A. Actual impact of stakeholder alignment with CRM success.
60
60
51
50
40
30
20
10
1
0
Employee
alignment
Customer
alignment
Shareholder
alignment
Stakeholder groups
N = 372.4
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
Companies today are not optimally aligning CRM with employees’ business
objectives to the extent they should be, and it is showing. Interestingly, companies
underestimate the importance of employee alignment, viewing it as a distant second
to customer alignment (see Figure 8B).
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15. Figure 8B. Where companies are today: Alignment of stakeholder objectives with CRM.
100
51
21
21
47
23
22
34
34
35
15
3
Customers
15
7
15
7
Employees
Shareholders
80
Percent of respondents
Very important
Important
Somewhat important
Not important
Not applicable
60
40
20
1
0
Stakeholder groups
Notes: Customers = 367, Employees = 347, Shareholders = 331.
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
When employees and middle management were asked to describe their level of
commitment and adoption to CRM, 76 percent globally said they somewhat use
CRM; only 14 percent said they fully use it. Both upfront in aligning stakeholders and
later in ongoing adoption and use of CRM by employees, there are clear opportunities to improve commitment to CRM (see Figure 8C).
Figure 8C. Employee adoption and commitment to CRM today.
76
80
Percent respondents
60
50
40
30
20
14
10
6
4
0
Fully use
Use
somewhat
Do not use
Not
applicable
Commitment
N = 369.
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
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16. Conclusion
Ultimately, CRM must positively impact the bottom line or it is not worth any
company’s effort and investment. Translating the overall goal and value proposition of
CRM – "to grow companies more profitably by serving customers more intelligently" –
into realizing the full value of projected ROI is the clearest indicator of CRM success.
These study results focus on how to make that happen, strategically and pragmatically. To succeed and realize full value from CRM, there must be a resounding focus
on culture, manifested through the CRM approach steps of change management,
process change, CRM strategy, stakeholder assessment and governance, while
balancing capabilities and risks to enact the right plans and actions at the right
times, given the impact of influencers such as competitive environment, regulatory
issues, size and scope of project, and company starting point.
Technology provides the system infrastructure for CRM, the business case and
ROI projections provide the means of tracking, yet it is the human-oriented steps
that create and sustain the value of CRM. More than just putting in a technology
system or gathering additional customer information, the human-oriented steps help
employees adopt and fully use new technologies and verify that customer data is
actually analyzed and used to build stronger customer relationships.
The human-oriented steps rely on establishment of and adherence to critical
measures (such as incentive alignment and customer satisfaction) in order to visibly
link the importance of CRM to the overall business, as well as to ingrain CRM in
the day-to-day work of the company and its go-to-market approach. For CRM to
fully succeed, everyone – senior management, middle management, and frontline
employees – must be vested, not just in the implementation of CRM, but ultimately
in embedding CRM as a long-term and integral piece of the company’s value
proposition to its customers.
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17. About the authors
Melody Badgett is the IBM Institute for Business Value CRM Global Lead,
Managing Consultant, IBM Business Consulting Services. You can e-mail Melody at
mbadgett@us.ibm.com.
Steve Ballou, PhD., Senior Research Methodologist, IBM Institute for Business Value
Associate Partner, IBM Business Consulting Services. You can e-mail Steve at
seballou@us.ibm.com.
Steve LaValle, Partner, Global and Americas CRM Strategy Services Leader, IBM
Business Consulting Services. You can e-mail Steve at steve.lavalle@us.ibm.com.
Contributors
Adam Klaber, Partner, Global and Americas CRM Services Leader, IBM Business
Consulting Services. You can e-mail Adam at adam.klaber@us.ibm.com.
Ralph Schuler, EMEA CRM Services Leader, IBM Business Consulting Services. You
can e-mail Ralph at ralph.schuler@de.ibm.com.
Rod Bryan, Partner, Asia-Pacific CRM Services Leader, IBM Business Consulting
Services. You can e-mail Rod at rod.bryan@au1.ibm.com.
Christian Petross, Managing Consultant, EMEA CRM Strategy Services Leader, IBM
Business Consulting Services. You can e-mail Christian at cpetross@de.ibm.com.
About IBM Business Consulting Services
With consultants and professional staff in more than 160 countries globally, IBM
Business Consulting Services is the world’s largest consulting services organization.
IBM Business Consulting Services provides clients with business process and industry
expertise, a deep understanding of technology solutions that address specific industry
issues, and the ability to design, build and run those solutions in a way that delivers
bottom-line business value.
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18. Appendix
CRM initiative descriptions
Sales programs and
effectiveness
Identifying and acquiring attractive new customers; creating targeted up-selling, crossselling and service-to-sales programs; increasing efficiency of the sales force.
Campaign management
Developing innovative marketing campaigns and the required infrastructure to reflect
the company’s customer focus.
Channel integration and
optimization
Integrating and optimizing existing and new channels to enable the company to provide an
optimal customer experience, encourage customers to use low-cost channels and media.
Product optimization and
management
Optimizing product usage; refining, migrating and phasing out current products;
developing new products and services.
Strategic brand
management
Developing a consistent brand image built around the strategic goals of the CRM initiative.
Loyalty and retention
programs
Creating loyalty programs and retention schemes (customer cards, bonus systems) and
building the required support infrastructure.
Cost reduction
Introducing programs to reduce marketing, sales and service costs; restructuring
programs to reduce head count, closing branches, consolidating infrastructures.
Customer service and after- Standardizing customer service; optimizing customer service programs, channels and
sales support
call centers; using customer satisfaction tools and complaint resolution processes;
creating win-back programs.
CRM outsourcing
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Giving part of your CRM IT infrastructure, business process, or application to an
outsourcing partner to lower costs and increase focus.
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19. Approach step descriptions
CRM strategy and value
proposition development
Business case and ROI
Developing business case for change and quantifying ROI of planned CRM initiative/
effort. Conducting benefits-realization management.
Change management
Developing programs to ensure employees and management fully adopt CRM
and customer focus. Setting specific CRM-related performance measurements,
incentives, bonuses and targets. Creating a plan for communicating CRM strategy and
implementation plan to all stakeholders and providing regular status/progress updates.
Implementation roadmap
Developing an implementation plan and transformation roadmap that details necessary
process, organizational and technology-related steps.
Process change
Analyzing, optimizing and aligning marketing, sales and service business processes
to become a customer-focused organization. Including aligning existing projects and
processes such as marketing campaigns, lead generation sales pipeline management
and customer service with CRM business objectives.
Prioritization of company
initiatives
Prioritizing and coordinating CRM initiatives with other non-CRM corporate initiatives
(ERP implementation, cost cutting). Verifying CRM initiatives have adequate visibility
and resources for success.
Internal stakeholder
assessment
Identifying and understanding individual needs of executives, frontline personnel and
other key opinion leaders. Determining how to position initiative to align with needs of
these stakeholders.
Senior executive and
opinion leader buy-in
Securing senior executive sponsorship and support for CRM.
Governance
Establishing ongoing management of CRM initiatives.
Organizational alignment
Changing responsibilities and organizational structure of marketing, sales and service
departments to support optimized processes and CRM business objectives.
Budget process
management
Adapting CRM plan to company’s capital allocation process. Verifying CRM plan is
optimally aligned with company’s project/initiative funding structure.
Capabilities and risk
assessment
Identifying and prioritizing necessary capabilities and business requirements for a
successful CRM initiative/effort. Identifying and addressing risk factors in order to
increase likelihood of success and reduce likelihood of failure.
Metric development
Developing metrics to track progress and impact CRM initiatives.
Customer data integration
and data ownership
Consolidating/aggregating customer, product and partner data. Cleaning and updating
customer records. Addressing who owns customer data.
Customer needs analysis
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Assessing industry, business context, customer viewpoint and stakeholder environment
as it relates to CRM. Developing an integrated marketing, sales and service CRM
strategy and value proposition. Verifying CRM strategy aligns with corporate strategy.
Analyzing and understanding customer needs, values and buying behaviors. Reflecting
analysis in CRM strategies and processes and in the new customer experience.
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20. Survey methodology
The global “Doing CRM Right” survey had a response rate of 20 percent with a total
of 373 responses.
Panel
• Teamed with the Economist Intelligent Unit (EIU) to gain access to their panel
• Panel was global; focusing on respondents from Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific
• Panel was comprised of CRM decision-makers from EIU’s executive Global
2000 database.
Survey
• 29 question online survey
• Used the WebSurvey online survey tool.
Response rate
• Survey sent to 1600 panelists from EIU global database
• Survey was promoted indirectly on EIU Website and in EIU newsletters
• Received 373 responses (estimated 320 from direct mailing)
• 20 percent response rate.
Sample size distribution by region
Global sample size = 373 companies
• Americas = 101 companies
• EMEA = 153 companies
Western Europe = 101
Eastern Europe = 22
Middle East = 30
• Asia Pacific = 92 companies.
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21. Respondent profile
• Over two-thirds of respondents are either decision-makers or influencers of CRMrelated decisions
• Respondents in senior management functions account for almost half of respondents
• Respondents span all levels of the organization, with about 90 percent of
respondents being manager level or above
• Respondents represent a mix of small, medium and large enterprise companies;
56 percent were over US$50 million and 28 percent were over US$1 billion.
Professional services
13
Financial markets - banking
12
Financial markets - other
8
Technology
6
Healthcare
4
Computer services
4
Consumer packaged goods
4
Telecommunications
4
Media and entertainment
4
Chemicals and petroleum
4
Automotive
4
Industrial products
3
Travel and transportation
3
Energy and utilities
3
Education
3
Insurance - property and casualty
3
Insurance - other
2
Retail
2
Financial markets - wealth management
2
Government
2
Wholesale distribution and services
1
Aerospace and defense
1
Electronics
1
Other
8
0
2
4
6
8
10
Percent of respondents
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services, “Doing CRM Right” global study, 2004.
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22. For further detail
Executive briefs in this IBM CRM global study series:
Badgett, Melody, Steve Ballou, PhD. and Steve LaValle. "Doing CRM right: What it
takes to be successful with CRM – Executive summary view, CRM global study." IBM
Business Consulting Services, 2004. www.ibm.com/services/bcs
Badgett, Melody, Steve Ballou, PhD. and Steve LaValle. "Doing CRM right: What it
takes to be successful with CRM – Americas view, CRM global study." IBM Business
Consulting Services, 2004. www.ibm.com/services/bcs
Badgett, Melody, Steve Ballou, PhD. and Steve LaValle. "Doing CRM right: What it
takes to be successful with CRM – Europe, Middle East and Africa view, CRM global
study." IBM Business Consulting Services, 2004. www.ibm.com/services/bcs
Badgett, Melody, Steve Ballou, PhD. and Steve LaValle. "Doing CRM right: What
it takes to be successful with CRM – Asia Pacific view, CRM global study." IBM
Business Consulting Services, 2004. www.ibm.com/services/bcs
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1
2
Percentages are Nagelkerke R^2’s. Nagelkerke R^2’s can be interrupted like
linear regression R^2. Higher percents indicate that there is a stronger, positive
influence of a particular CRM ownership situation on overall CRM initiate success.
3
Percents are Pearson Correlation Coefficients. Higher percentages indicate that
there is a stronger, positive influence of a particular alignment on overall CRM initiative success.
4
21
The 15 percent success pertains to the approximately 15 percent or less of survey
respondents that reported “Complete success” for each CRM initiative. The 80
percent is from the R^2 of the analysis that resulted in Figure 1. The analysis was
based on a Regression of the relationship between status of initiatives and frequency of performing the key enabling steps. The regression tells us that these
16 CRM approach steps explain 71 percent (R^2=.71) of the likelihood of having
CRM initiative success. The percents total to 100%; each percent indicates the
percent of the 71 percent likelihood of success that is explained by that individual
approach step. Number of responses = 372. Our acceptably low sample distribution indicates that at the 95 percent confidence level the obtained scores are
reasonably reliable.
Ibid.
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