Lecturer: Dondjio. I Group 3 14122723 Ji-Hye Choi 14124262 Jinkeyung Baek 14125064 Xiaomin Chen 14128858 Maxime Gouge Contents 1. Introduction 2 1.1 Executive Summary 2 1.2 The Definition of CRM 2 1.3 The Necessity of CRM 3 2. Critical analysis of CRM 4 2.1 What causes the failure of CRM? 4 2.2 Future of CRM 6 3. Brief Summary and Analyze Cases 8 3.1 Case Summaries 8 3.2 Cases Analysis 9 4. Answer and Analyze Case Questions 11 4.1 Identify strategies for the CRM project implementation. 11 4.2 Identify reasons contributing to the failure of the CRM implementation at Mashkin. 11 4.3 Discuss the current state of CRM practice in emerging markets using the example of Russia. 12 4.4 What additional challenges might …show more content…
Also, in terms of efficiency, customer loyalty is very important in these days. First, getting new customers is very hard and ineffective. It costs 5 to 10 times more to attract new customers than retaining the existing ones. In addition, even if companies succeed to get new customers, they cannot be sure that new customers will continue using their products or services. However, if a company has many loyal customers, they don 't need to be worry about that. Not only is it less expensive to retain a customer than to acquire a new one, loyal customers spend more and purchase more profitable products and services. It is already proved as 'Pareto 's Law '. The longer the customer is loyal, the more profit the company gains. Therefore, if companies care about not only long term growth and profits but efficiency, customer loyalty has to be a top priority. In light of these, considering customers’ needs and wants first and making business plan for that is key to success, and CRM makes that dream come true. CRM helps a company to understand their customers and know what they want. Through this, companies can get closer relationships with customers and they can differentiate themselves from other competitors by providing superior service and offering a consistent, convenient customer experience. Not only for customers, but also CRM is beneficial for companies ' internal control. First of all, in these days, the size of the company is getting bigger. Consequently, the
But a CRM system isn't just a list of contacts. It contains customers' details and history of their transactions with an organization, along with information about those customers' place or status in the sales process (Scott, 2014). CRM application helps a business to maintain the correct information of customers in order to manage the relationship with customers and update customers’ needs. Moreover it helps a business to achieve an insight into the behavior of their customers and adapt their business to make sure that customers are served in the best
Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Customer relation management (CRM) is a cross functional enterprise system that computerizes numerous customers serving form in direct marketing, sales, customer service and accounting management. CRM allows a company to distinguish and focus on their best customer so that they can be held as a loyal customer for a longer period of time.
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is an information industry term for methodologies, software, and usually Internet capabilities that help an enterprise manage customer relationships in an organized way. For example, an enterprise might build a database about its customers that described relationships in sufficient detail so that management, salespeople, people providing service, and perhaps the customer directly could access information, match customer needs with product plans and offerings, remind customers of service requirements, know what other products a customer had
In order to establish a suitable CRM system and increase the success rate, understanding CRM processes is especially important. Building CRM system, there are many works need to do(). Firstly, the target customer market should be identified. Different customer strategies are focused on different target customer markets based on their profitability. Then, firms set customer objectives, for example, acquire customer satisfaction and loyalty. After that, the leaders and managers should support and commit the implementation of a CRM system. At the same time, when companies change their targets, a plan about changing
The paper on CRM roadmap introduces ten articles and describes the essence of each of those. The author presents eleven propositions on the known facts and potential pitfalls of CRM and also lists six recommendations [1]
It’s very important to a business to have good customer relationships; CRM Software’s main objectives are to attract new customers while maintaining and satisfying their current customers and trying to win back the trust of former customers. Customers are one of the most important variables for a business owner to pay attention to, when trying to create a profit. Customer Relationship Management software keeps track of customer information to help the company maintain a strong relation with the customers. Good CRM Software brings together information from all databases within a company and gives
An effective Customer Relationship Management (CRM) program can be used to identify, retain, satisfy and obtain customers by using technology to optimize strategies for understanding customers’ needs to manage business interactions with current, former, and prospective customers. Additionally, CRM also enables companies to maximize internal, external, marketing and customer service operations to better address the needs of the customer building a better relationship with customers that a more profitable. (Ahmad & Buttle, 2001)
The main characteristic of CRM is to give information and knowledge delivering in the effective way. To give knowledge about the new technologies such as online banking. CRM can be beneficial for our business by giving better service, increasing work capacity, using a simplified marketing and targeting, making businesses in efficient way and improving customer satisfaction.
It is imperative to satisfy customers and give them an amazing experience at the company. While it cost less to sell to existing customers and companies can increase profit by selling to the same customers; if customers are satisfied, there is more chance they will come back for more services or products. Satisfied customers are a free marketing for the company. However, it is the opposite if customers are dissatisfied. Dissatisfied customer will tell 8 to 10 people about his or her experience (O’Brien, A & Marakas, G. 2004). If by any reason, representatives see that the customer is not satisfy, they should act fast and fix the problem. Furthermore, there is more chance for sale representatives to sell to an existing customer that to a new customer. A good strategy for customer retention is to reward good customers. Companies can easily do
Depali(2012) further describes CRM as an important mechanism that helps firms understand about their customer’s needs and forge a lasting relationship.
Companies use CRM strategies to alter the customer experience to move beyond the sales focus to a relationship with the customers that meet the needs of
The third benefit is that CRM helps the company in maximizing up selling and cross selling. This system gives the customers premium products which fall in same category of their purchase. It also facilitates cross selling on the basis of their previous purchases. This is done through interaction with customers and getting ideas concerning their needs, wants and patterns of their purchase. The obtained details are stored in a central database that is accessible to all company executives. The executives can promote their products to the customers when an opportunity is spotted, hence maximizing cross selling and up-selling (Mauri 2003). .
As CRM helps in improving the knowledge about customers in terms of their behavior, demographics and purchase patterns thus it helps in segregating highly profitable customers from less profitable customers.
When implementing a new CRM system, the goal is to have proper systems in place as the company grows and, ensuring that we always have the visibility and control we need to focus on selling more and servicing customers better
CRM provides a healthcare organization with a one-to-one communication solution that improves care delivery, lowers costs, and increases loyalty among the key stakeholders most necessary to organizational success (ASGAR, M, et al., 2015) With the help of CRM, healthcare organizations have the ability to provide services that extend far beyond traditional practices.