Customer Relationship Management
Chapter # 1
NATURE AND SCOPE OF CRM
“ CUSTOMER IS THE KING ”
- TODAY’S SELLER
1. NATURE AND SCOPE OF CRM
The Customer is King! This credo is more powerful, relevant and true today than ever before. In a truly customer driven economy, success depends on a company's ability to be with the customer on a round the clock basis… satisfying all their product and service specific needs. Simply stated, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is about finding, getting, and retaining customers.
Customer Relationship Management is one of the hottest and most talked about topics in the industry today and for good reason. Industry analysts recently reported that CRM expenditures will grow from $2.8 billion in 1999 to $11 billion by 2003.
CRM is all about building long term business relationships with your customers. It is best described as the blending of internal business processes: Sales, Marketing and Customer support with technology. CRM solutions empower businesses to more efficiently and effectively manage the activities that affect their relationship with their customers. The ultimate goal of CRM is to meet and exceed customer expectations, create a positive customer experience and build customer loyalty.
CRM changes all of this and represents a continuing evolution in managing front office operations. With CRM, traditional departmental applications for sales, marketing and customer service are consolidated into a single unified system capable of managing the entire customer life cycle. This approach allows employees throughout an organization to have immediate access to a complete profile of important customer information. Organizations who are implementing CRM solutions feel confident that providing access to this level of information will assist their sales and support staff in better understanding the needs and buying patterns of their customers.
CRM (customer relationship management) is an information industry term for
NATURE AND SCOPE OF CRM
“ CUSTOMER IS THE KING ”
- TODAY’S SELLER
1. NATURE AND SCOPE OF CRM
The Customer is King! This credo is more powerful, relevant and true today than ever before. In a truly customer driven economy, success depends on a company's ability to be with the customer on a round the clock basis… satisfying all their product and service specific needs. Simply stated, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is about finding, getting, and retaining customers.
Customer Relationship Management is one of the hottest and most talked about topics in the industry today and for good reason. Industry analysts recently reported that CRM expenditures will grow from $2.8 billion in 1999 to $11 billion by 2003.
CRM is all about building long term business relationships with your customers. It is best described as the blending of internal business processes: Sales, Marketing and Customer support with technology. CRM solutions empower businesses to more efficiently and effectively manage the activities that affect their relationship with their customers. The ultimate goal of CRM is to meet and exceed customer expectations, create a positive customer experience and build customer loyalty.
CRM changes all of this and represents a continuing evolution in managing front office operations. With CRM, traditional departmental applications for sales, marketing and customer service are consolidated into a single unified system capable of managing the entire customer life cycle. This approach allows employees throughout an organization to have immediate access to a complete profile of important customer information. Organizations who are implementing CRM solutions feel confident that providing access to this level of information will assist their sales and support staff in better understanding the needs and buying patterns of their customers.
CRM (customer relationship management) is an information industry term for