Tuesday, 1 March 2016

THE MAKING OF CHAPTER 11

Building a Customer-Centric Organization – Customer Relationship Management

HOW CRM WORKS


Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
CRM enables an organization to:
Ø  Provide better customer service
Ø  Make call centers more efficient
Ø  Cross sell products more effectively
Ø  Help sales staff close deals faster
Ø  Simplify marketing and sales processes
Ø  Discover new customers
Ø  Increase customer revenues

Recency, Frequency, and Monetary Value
Organizations can find their most valuable customers through “RFM” - Recency, Frequency, and Monetary value
Ø  How recently a customer purchased items (Recency)
Ø  How frequently a customer purchased items (Frequency)
Ø  How much a customer spends on each purchase (Monetary Value)

The Evolution of CRM

CRM reporting technology – help organizations identify their customers across other 

applications

 CRM analysis technologies  help organization segment their customers into categories 

such as best and worst customers

CRM predicting technologies – help organizations make predictions regarding customer 

behavior such as which customers are at risk of leaving


Three phases in the evolution of CRM include reporting, analyzing, and predicting


The Ugly Side of CRM


Customer Relationship Management’s Explosive Growth
CRM Business Drivers

Customer Relationship Management’s Explosive Growth
Forecasts for CRM Spending (in billions)

Using Analytical CRM to Enhance Decisions

Operational CRM – supports traditional transactional processing for day-to-day front-

office operations or systems that deal directly with the customers

Analytical CRM – supports back-office operations and strategic analysis and includes all systems that do not deal directly with the customers
Operational CRM and analytical CRM



Customer Relationship Management Success Factors
CRM success factors include:
Ø  Clearly communicate the CRM strategy
Ø  Define information needs and flows
Ø  Build an integrated view of the customer
Ø  Implement in iterations
Ø  Scalability for organizational growth

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