Building Chapter Eleven

Hi guys! Thanks for still reading my blog, I hope it has been useful. We only have a few chapters left until end of the chapter so bear with me okay? Chapter eleven is about Customer-Centric Organization – Customer Relationship Management. It talks about operational and analytical customer relationship management, the primary forces driving the explosive growth of customer relationship management and the relationship between decision making and analytical customer relationship management.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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

CRM Business Drivers

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:

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