Thursday, 27 February 2014

CHAPTER 11: BUILDING A CUSTOMER – CENTRIC ORGANIZATION – CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT


Customer relationship management (CRM)

  • CRM enables an organization to:

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


Recency, Frequency, and Monetary Value
  • Organizations can find their most valuable customers through “RFM” –Recency, Frequency, and Monetary value

F      How recently a customer purchased items (Recency)
F      How frequently a customer purchased items (Frequency)
F      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






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:

W      Clearly communicate the CRM strategy
W      Define information needs and flows
W      Build an integrated view of the customer
W      Implement in iterations

W      Scalability for organizational growth

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