Friday, 24 November 2017

CHAPTER 11 : BUILDING A CUSTOMER-CENTRIC ORGANIZATION - CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM)

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
- Involves managing all aspects of a customer's relationship with an organization to increase customer loyalty and retention an organization's profitability.

- CRM enables an organization to :

  • Provide better customer service
  • Make call centers more efficient
  • Cross sell products more effectively
  • Help sales staff close deals faster
  • Simplify marketing and sales processes
  • Discover new customers
  • Increase customer revenues

RECENCY, FREQUENCY AND MONETARY VALUE
Organizations can find their most valuable customers through "RFM"- Recency, Frequency and Monetary value.
  • How recently a customer purchased items (Recency)
  • How frequently a customer purchased items (Frequency)
  • How much a customer spends on each purchase (Monetary Value)

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.




CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT'S EXPLOSIVE GROWTH


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.


CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SUCCESS FACTORS
CRM success factors include :
  1. Clearly communicate the CRM strategy.
  2. Define information needs and flows.
  3. Build an integrated view of the customer.
  4. Implement in iterations.
  5. Scalability for organizational growth.







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