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Developing and Implementing a CRM Strategy

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Business Intelligence
Published: March 2000
Product Code: r125-037
Description
Becoming customer-centric could completely transform the way your company operates and will have major implications for people, processes and technology. Planning for and managing change in these three key areas is crucial - neglect any of them and your CRM programme will hardly get off the ground. Developing and Implementing a CRM Strategy gives step-by-step guidance on how to succeed in each of these areas. With insights into CRM plans and strategies at over 100 leading organizations, this report reveals how to plan and implement an integrated, end-to-end CRM strategy, which really works.
Table of Contents
SECTION 1: OVERVIEW AND CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR CRM

Chapter 1: Introduction

Learn Valuable Lessons from Leading Companies

Planning a CRM Strategy: How this Report will Help

Avoid the Easy Solution

Definition and Significance of Customer Relationship Management

Chapter 2: Executive Summary

Introduction

Section One: Overview and Critical Success Factors for CRM

Chapter 3: CRM Strategy Planner

Chapter 4: Critical Success Factors

Section Two: CRM - Ten Key Challenges

Chapter 5: Adopting a Multidisciplinary Approach to the CRM Project

Chapter 6: Customer Assets and Customer Knowledge

Chapter 7: Managing the People, Culture and Organizational Issues

Chapter 8: Establishing End-to-end Processes

Chapter 9: Customer Knowledge and the Data Warehouse

Chapter 10: Developing a CRM Measurement Strategy

Chapter 11: Automating Operational CRM

Chapter 12: Developing Tools for Analytical CRM

Chapter 13: Enterprise-wide Integration of Applications

Chapter 14: Implementing and Rolling-out CRM

Section Three: Case Studies

The Automobile Association

Bank of America

Boehringer Ingelheim

McGraw-Hill Higher Education

Royal Bank of Canada

RS Components

Shell Europe Oil Products

Chapter 15: Future Trends in CRM

Chapter 3: CRM Strategy Planner

Core Tasks

Define Business Objectives

Company Examples

Understand the Three Dimensions of CRM

Company Examples

Establish a Structured Approach to Project Management

Company Examples

Identify Corporate and Customer Needs

Company Examples

Re-engineer Customer-facing Processes in line with Customer Needs

Company Examples

Use a Structured Approach to Selecting Technology

Company Examples

Ensure that Systems Development is Business-led

Company examples

Establish Actionable Measures of Customer Performance

Company Examples

Actively Manage Culture Change and Win Buy-in

Company Examples

Develop a phased implementation strategy

Company Examples


Chapter 4: Critical Success Factors for CRM

Goals and Objectives for CRM Initiatives

Practical Success Factors

KPMG's Six Critical Success Factors

Generic Critical Success Factors

Developing Customer-facing Processes

Company Examples

Creating a Customer Culture

Company Examples

Introducing Customer-based Measurements

Effective use of information technology

Company Examples

Segmentation and Understanding Customers

Developing an Integrated Process

Causes of Failure

Key Learning Points

SECTION 2: CRM - TEN KEY CHALLENGES

Chapter 5: Adopting a Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the CRM Project

Executive Summary

How the Customer Changes the Company

Improving Technology and Processes

Connect with Enterprise-wide Initiatives

Rethinking the Enterprise

The Effect on Customer Experience

Starting with the Business Case

Writing the Business Case

Company Examples

Owning the Customer

The Chief Customer Officer

Board-level Responsibility

It's a People Thing

Support from the Top

Involve Everyone

Be Prepared to Adapt

Scoping the Technology

Structured Frameworks for CRM projects

ISM's Ten-step Approach

Key Learning Points

Chapter 6: Customer Assets and Customer Knowledge

Executive Summary

Populating the Database

Legacy Systems

Dangers of Data Decay

Third Party Sources

Match Rates

Customer Ownership

Purchasing Intentions and Event Triggers

Harvesting Data on the Internet

The Empowered E-consumer

Have I the Right to Know You?

Key Principles of Data Capture

Levels of Data Required

Leveraging Existing Customer Knowledge

Dynamic Market Segmentation

Dynamic Customer Segmentation

How the Market Impacts on the Customer

Demon's Experience

Customer Knowledge Equals Profitability

Key Learning Points

Chapter 7: Managing the People, Culture and Organizational Issues

Executive Summary

The Need to Consult Internally

Achieving Buy-in and Cultural Change

Centralized Customer Resources versus Local Implementation

Managing Outsourced Suppliers

Proving the Return on Investment

Key Learning Points

Chapter 8: Establishing End-to-End Processes

Executive Summary

The Need to Change the Business Process

First Steps

Integrated Processes

Integrating Goals and Objectives

The Principles of Business Process Re-Engineering

Critical Success Factors for Business Process Re-Engineering

Ten Critical Success Factors

Leveraging Best Practice in Process Re-Engineering

Linking the Components with Technology

Key Learning Points

Chapter 9: Customer Knowledge and the Data Warehouse

Summary

Supporting Integrated Processes with Customer Data

Defining the Customer Data Component

Managing the Implementation of a Data Warehouse

Persuade People to Use New Systems

Benefits of the Data Warehouse and Beyond

Key Learning Points

Chapter 10: Developing a CRM Measurement Strategy

Summary

CRM And the New Metrics

Balanced Scorecard and Measurement Frameworks

Drivers of Customer Performance Methodology

Benchmarking Company Performance

Best Practices in the Sales Process

Tracking Marketing and Customers

Reporting on the New Measures

Key Learning Points

Chapter 11: Automating Operational CRM

Summary

Technological Support for CRM

Core Components of Automated CRM

Increasing Channels and Introducing the Web

Key Learning Points

Chapter 12: Developing Tools for Analytical CRM

Summary

Sourcing Data from CRM Systems

External Databases

Creating Reports in CRM Systems

Modelling Behaviour

Key Learning Points

Chapter 13: Enterprise-wide Integration of Applications

Summary

CRM as an Integrated Process

ERP in the Integrated Organization

Enterprise Integration Applications

Data Issues in Legacy Systems

Application Selection for ERP Compatibility

Evaluating Systems Vendors

A Partnership Approach

Adding in the Internet

A Major Delivery Channel in CRM

Company Examples

New Forms of Integrated CRM

Key Learning Points

Chapter 14: Implementing and Rolling-out CRM

Executive Summary

CRM Implementation Principles

Incentives for Change

McKean's Four Types of Worker

Other Areas of Resistance

Careful Recruitment

Accepting the Timescale

Seeing the Benefits

Troubleshooting the Project

Key Learning Points

SECTION 3: CASE STUDIES

Case Study Matrix

The Automobile Association

Boehringer Ingelheim

McGraw-Hill Higher Education

Royal Bank of Canada

RS Components

Learning points

Shell Europe Oil Products

Chapter 15: Future Trends in CRM

Executive Summary

The Rise of the Infomediary and Data Co-op

Concerns about Sharing Customer Data

The Development of Data Co-ops in the UK

Club Canvasse

Euro Direct

Abacus Direct

Other Contenders

Limitations in the Scope for Data Co-ops

The Shape of CRM to Come

KPMG's Model

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Further Reading and Sources of Information

Appendix 2: Steps in Vendor Selection

Appendix 3: Consultancies and Vendors

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