Abhijeet Prahlad: Business Intelligence and CRM
Abhijeet Prahlad: Business Intelligence and CRM
Abhijeet Prahlad: Business Intelligence and CRM
Abhijeet Prahlad
Introduction
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What went wrong with CRM?
UK research firm Butler Group suggests that as many as 70% of
CRM implementations fail, while Gartner Group is only slightly
less pessimistic when it claims that 55% of all CRM projects fail to
meet customers' expectations. (Source: Planning is essential to success of
CRM)
4 Cs: Contents, Collaboration, Community, & Complexity
Optimization involves two steps: First, the enterprise begins to view
knowledge as a strategic asset. Second, it designs and implements
knowledge management processes to formally manage, access and
invest these assets."
The secret to CRM success isn’t in the computer (Source: Marketing
technology: the secret to CRM success isn’t in the computer)
Know your intuition, define success, set objectives, make a plan,
reward your employees, know your customer, empower your
employee, tell customer what you’re doing, measurement, and fine
tune & adopt.
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What went wrong with CRM?
Top Sales Improvement Goals Benefits from using CRM
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Goal
The goal of the class
Prepare the student for broaden
knowledge on CRM, CRM software &
CRM vendors.
Prepare the student to select right CRM
system to a specific I.T. project.
Prepare the student the possibility of
being a CRM consultant
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What is CRM?
Defining CRM
Common misconceptions
CRM is not a software!
CRM misconceptions
Definition
Customer relationship management (CRM) consists
of the processes a company uses to track and
organize its contacts with its current and prospective
customers. CRM software is used to support these
processes; information about customers and
customer interactions can be entered, stored and
accessed by employees in different company
departments.
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What is CRM? (Kincaid, Ch3, p.45)
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Sales Pipeline
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Customer touch poi
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What is CRM?
Deciding who should lead the CRM
functions
Marketing
Sales
Customer services
Product support
Channel & partners
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What is CRM???
Summary of the chapter...
What touch points does your company
currently employ and which function
manages them?
What are the basic steps in your
customers’ life cycles?
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E-CRM
Merging CRM and internet
Why e-CRM is so important
Customers want and expect the benefits that
the internet gives them.
The internet is extremely cost effective
medium for delivering customer
interactions
CRM vs. e-CRM
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Stage 1: Automate each of the customer-facing
functions.
Stage 2: Create historical data marts for each function
and use the information to continuously improve the
customer experience when utilizing each function.
Stage 3: Implement a unified customer relationship
data warehouse spanning all customer-facing
functions, giving the enterprise a total picture of the
customer relationship for the first time.
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Types of CRM & CRM systems
3 types of CRM
Operational CRM
Analytical CRM
Collaborative CRM
3 types of CRM systems
In house
ASP
Open source
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Adaptation..
The new economy’s new face
Knowledge centricity
Increasing returns and network effects
Accelerated clock speed
Transparency, information symmetry, and
knowledge asymmetry
Low switching costs
Modular innovation
Rapid and ad hoc alliance
Product as experience
In what area mentioned above your company could
utilize when adopting CRM technology?
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…and
The new-new imperatives
Integrating and turning customer and channel
knowledge into action
Forging strong relationships with customers
and channel partners
Customer knowledge integration
Relationship management in e-business
Value proposition
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Reading assignments...
Six Steps To Successful CRM-CTI Deployment
(Pazak, 2005)
Consider user adoption
Factor in your IT expertise
Don’t mistake technology for business strategy
Best of the breed may not add up (and vise
versa)
Evaluating business processes
Look for global view
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