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CRM
August 2, 2004 |
The Pulse: Is your CRM initiative designed to... What's your CRM initiative designed to do, meet customer needs or internal needs? Results of a reader poll.   |
CRM
April 2006
Barton Goldenberg |
Executive Support: The Most Important CRM Success Factor For organizations that have succeeded in their CRM initiative, executive support stands out as the single most important ingredient for success. Let's examine why by looking at examples of three levels of executive support. |
CRM
April 2010
Barton Goldenberg |
Your People Are Half the Battle You have a simple choice: Prepare your people or prepare for failure. |
CRM
January 2005
Barton Goldenberg |
5 Ways to Refocus Your CRM Efforts This year, seize new opportunities for gaining--and keeping--customer loyalty. |
CRM
March 2004
Barton Goldenberg |
People Make or Break a CRM Initiative What drives CRM success is getting the people, process, and technology mix right. The people side of a CRM initiative accounts for 50 percent of its success, so it is especially important to tackle that aspect from the outset |
CRM
April 13, 2004
Ginger Conlon |
People Are the Most Important Part of the CRM Equation Customer focus starts at the very top of the organization. |
CRM
April 2003
Ginger Conlon |
Making CRM Pay Off Like any worthwhile endeavor, it takes a great deal of planning and effort to get real results from CRM. |
CRM
January 2006
Barton Goldenberg |
CRM: The Past and the Future Born of contact management applications 25 years ago, enterprise software systems have come a long way. |
CRM
January 2010
Barton Goldenberg |
Assessing Your CRM Situation You can't know where you are unless you look - and look hard. |
CRM
October 2010
Barton Goldenberg |
A Quarter-Century in CRM An industry veteran looks back at the lessons learned over the course of 25 years. |
CRM
March 3, 2003
Ginger Conlon |
Creating a CRM Culture Companies want their people to use new CRM processes, but what's most important is getting those employees to think differently. If your company does not fully embrace CRM, the initiative will stall or fail. |
CRM
April 2015
Barton Goldenberg |
Social CRM in Action Businesses discover the value of social communities. |
CRM
September 2004
Barton Goldenberg |
Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse Process excellence helps some companies enhance business processes like streamlining new product development and improving CRM. |
CRM
February 2007
Barton Goldenberg |
Execs, Not Tech C-level personnel will drive the CRM industry to new heights in the coming years -- here's why. |
CRM
December 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: In 2007 my Company Plans to... Increase its CRM budget: 40%... Maintain its CRM budget: 27%... etc. |
CRM
November 2003
Barton Goldenberg |
CRM Is Not a Game of Chance Don't commit to any CRM application until first understanding your CRM needs -- then understand which CRM application best meets them. |
CRM
September 19, 2014
Sameer Bhatia |
5 Reasons Your CRM Is Failing (and What You Can Do About It) Don't let these common, but fixable, obstacles stand in the way of CRM success. |
CRM
March 2007
Colin Beasty |
The Enlightened Enterprise As big businesses enter phase 2 (and for some, phase 3) of their varying CRM initiatives, these tips will refine the advance. |
CRM
December 2003
Lisa Picarille |
Five Ways to Be a Good Customer Here's what every CRM project leader must do when dealing with internal staff, vendors, integrators, and consultants to ensure the CRM initiative is truly fruitful. |
CRM
May 2004
Jason Compton |
How to...Select the Right People for a CRM Strategy Team These four strategies will facilitate the successful business transformation that accompanies CRM. |
CRM
January 2004
Barton Goldenberg |
Is Government CRM the Next Big Boom? Citizens are customers, too. And government agencies are looking for better ways to serve them. |
CIO
February 1, 2002
Danielle Dunne |
Beware of the CRM Backlash Jill Dyche contends that CRM projects would work better if companies did a better job defining their specific needs... |
CRM
July 2015
Barton Goldenberg |
From the CRM Trenches: A 30-Year Perspective Technology has changed everything but this: People are still the name of the game |
CRM
November 2003
Ginger Conlon |
How Do You Measure Success? Let us count the ways: Sales measures success one way, marketing another way, service another, and IT yet another. For this reason the first step of any CRM initiative should be to set mutually agreed-upon goals and metrics. |
CRM
March 2005
Barton Goldenberg |
Let's Keep to the High Road To move the CRM industry forward, leaders must learn from others' mistakes and stay focused on what's important. |
CRM
May 2007
Barton Goldenberg |
A CRM Initiative's Bermuda Triangle Two best practice suggestions for preventing -- permanently -- CRM user-adoption disappearance. |
CRM
March 2012
Jim Dickie |
Are the CRM Wars Really Over? Existing CRM users would be well advised to test the waters to see if something that would work better for them exists. |
CRM
March 1, 2004
David Myron |
Vertical Focus: Integrators: Necessary Evil or Indispensible Resource? North American companies shelled out $16.8 billion for CRM services last year. Large enterprise customers find professional services firms often add complexity to CRM implementations, but most are likely to use at least one services firm. |
CRM
December 13, 2004
Eric Krell |
The Race to Drive CRM Adoption Month 7: Churchill Downs' focus shifts to uniquely executing its overarching CRM initiative at each track. |
CRM
November 2004
Barton Goldenberg |
Who Really Owns the CRM Initiative? The battle between business and IT for control of users' desktops. |
CRM
December 2003
Ginger Conlon |
CRM Success Is Your Responsibility You can't just purchase CRM software, load it up, and expect it to work. |
CRM
November 2005
Barton Goldenberg |
Keeping the Faith A tale of two companies' CRM implementation experience -- one a raving success and the other now in a six-month delay. Here's what happened and why business process improvements matter. |
CRM
April 2014
Esteban Kolsky |
The Future of CRM Is Outcome-Driven Between company-centric and customer-centric, there needs to be a middle ground. |
CRM
March 25, 2011
Jim Davies |
Applying the Eight Building Blocks of CRM to Social Media How to improve the effectiveness and long-term success of social CRM initiatives |
CRM
April 1, 2008 |
The Pulse How Does Your Company Handle its CRM Solution? |
CRM
January 2014
Sarah Sluis |
Risk-Proof Your CRM System Focus on the people and the process, not the technology. |
CRM
December 2014
Esteban Kolsky |
Why CRM Is Not Dead Simple interactions give way to end-to-end experiences. |
CRM
July 2010
J. David Lashar |
The Cautionary Tales of CRM Words of wisdom drawn from decades of disappointment. |
CRM
March 1, 2005
David Myron |
What Is CRM? Defining CRM as merely a technology solution only distorts its purpose and value. It is better to view CRM as a business process. |
CRM
July 1, 2004 |
The Pulse: Does Your CEO Use the CRM Tools Your Company Has in Place? Graph shows that 53% of CEOs don't use CRM tools. |
CRM
August 2, 2004 |
Who's Who in CRM In May CRM magazine presented a list of some of the industry's key players. This month we continue that recognition with a look at two executives from Microsoft. |
CRM
February 2, 2004 |
Why CRM? An exclusive survey reveals the primary motivators for deploying CRM. |
CFO
November 1, 2002
Russ Banham |
Back to the Drawing Board With CRM installations, practice makes perfect. |
CRM
January 2012
Donna Fluss |
Redefining CRM It's time to say good-bye to the old definition of CRM -- it is no longer viable as a leading business or even systems strategy. |
CRM
August 2003
Ginger Conlon |
A Powerful Mix Creativity mixed with technology is certainly an influential sales tool. Another powerful tool in CRM is the blend of responsibility, accountability, and productivity. No CRM initiative is complete without it. |
CRM
January 2004
Martin Schneider |
The Hard Sell Selling ice to Alaskans is a breeze compared with selling CRM internally to executives who resist commitment and users who shun change. Although the benefits of CRM may be clear to you, the challenge is to convince everyone else. Here's how. |
CRM
July 1, 2004
Ginger Conlon |
CRM: Alive and Kicking Instead of complaining about the confusion with CRM, we should educate people interested in implementing CRM--the strategy--in their companies. |
CRM
March 1, 2004 |
Just 1 Question Should companies expect their CRM vendors to help them use CRM to determine who their most profitable customers are? |
CRM
October 18, 2004
Emmy Favilla |
Using CRM to Stop the Leaky Bucket Syndrome Toshiba Medical Systems found the right prescription for customer retention. |
CRM
October 2013
Barton Goldenberg |
Software Advances Are Propelling CRM to New Heights Seven trends businesses cannot afford to ignore. |
