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Friday, 1 April 2016

CHAPTER 11: Building a Customer-Centric Organization – Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

  • RM 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

Customer Relationship Management’s Explosive Growth

  • CRM Business Drivers


  • 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:
    • Clearly communicate the CRM strategy
    • Define information needs and flows
    • Build an integrated view of the customer
    • Implement in iterations
    • Scalability for organizational growth

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