CRM Overview - Benefits, Strategies, and Future Trends
Explore the business benefits of CRM, discover how IT drives operational and analytical CRM, and learn about the success factors and future trends in customer relationship management.
CRM Overview - Benefits, Strategies, and Future Trends
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CHAPTER 9 CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
CustomerRelationshipManagementOverview Chapter Nine Overview • SECTION 9.1 – CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT • Business Benefits of CRM • Using Information Technology to Drive Operational CRM • Using Information Technology to Driver Analytical CRM • SECTION 9.2 – CUSTOMER RELATINSHIP MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES • Customer Relationship Management’s Explosive Growth • Customer Relationship Management Success Factors • Current Trends: SRM, PRM, ERM • Future CRM Trends
9.1.1 CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT • 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
Crm basics • 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 • Three phases in the evolution of CRM include reporting, analyzing, and predicting
Sales and Operational CRM • The sales department was the first to begin developing CRM systems with sales force automation – a system that automatically tracks all of the steps in the sales process
Using IT to drive analytical CRM • Personalization – when a Web site knows enough about a persons likes and dislikes that it can fashion offers that are more likely to appeal to that person • Analytical CRM relies heavily on data warehousing technologies and business intelligence to glean insights into customer behavior • These systems quickly aggregate, analyze, and disseminate customer information throughout an organization
Using IT to drive analytical CRM • Analytical CRM information examples • Give customers more of what they want • Value their time • Overdeliver • Contact frequently • Generate a trustworthy mailing list • Follow up
9.2. CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES CRM Business Drivers
Customer relationship management’s 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
Current trends: SRM, PRM, AND ERM • Current trends include: • Supplier relationship management (SRM)– focuses on keeping suppliers satisfied by evaluating and categorizing suppliers for different projects, which optimizes supplier selection • Partner relationship management (PRM) – focuses on keeping vendors satisfied by managing alliance partner and reseller relationship that provide customers with the optimal sales channel • Employee relationship management (ERM) – provides employees with a subset of CRM applications available through a Web browser
Future CRM trends • CRM future trends include: • CRM applications will change from employee-only tools to tools used by suppliers, partners, and even customers • CRM will continue to be a major strategic focus for companies • CRM applications will continue to adapt wireless capabilities supporting mobile sales and mobile customers • CRM suites will incorporate PRM and SRM modules