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Chapter 11. Building a Customer-Centric Organization – Customer Relationship Management. Learning Outcomes. 11.1 Compare operational and analytical customer relationship management 11.2 Identify the primary forces driving the explosive growth of customer relationship management
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Chapter 11 Building a Customer-Centric Organization – Customer Relationship Management
Learning Outcomes 11.1 Compare operational and analytical customer relationship management 11.2 Identify the primary forces driving the explosive growth of customer relationship management 11.3 Define the relationship between decision making and analytical customer relationship management 11.4Summarize the best practices for implementing a successful customer relationship management system
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
Customer Relationship Management’s Explosive Growth CRM Business Drivers
Customer Relationship Management’s Explosive Growth Forecasts for CRM Spending (in billions)
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
Using Analytical CRM to Enhance Decisions • Operational CRM and analytical CRM
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
OPENING CASE STUDY QUESTIONSGearing Up At REI • Explain why it is important for REI to use CRM strategies to consolidate its customer information • Determine two pieces of customer information that REI could extrapolate from its CRM system that would help it manage its business more effectively • Explain how REI could use personalization to give its customers a more satisfying shopping experience
CHAPTER ELEVEN CASEThe Ritz-Carlton-Specializing in Customers • Ritz-Carlton is the only service company to have won the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award twice—in 1992 and 1999 • Companies worldwide strive to be “the Ritz-Carlton” of their industries • In 2000, the company launched the Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center, where anyone can study the brand’s cult of customer service for $2,000
Chapter Eleven Case Questions • What are the two different types of CRM and how has the Ritz-Carlton used them to become a world-class customer-service business? • Determine which of Ritz-Carlton’s six steps of customer service is the most important for its business • Rank Ritz-Carlton’s six steps of customer service in order of greatest to least importance in a CRM strategy for an online book-selling business such as Amazon.com
Chapter Eleven Case Questions • Describe three ways Ritz-Carlton can extend its customer reach by performing CRM functions over the Internet • The sixth step states to eschew technology— “We will not replace human service with machines.” Do you agree that customer service and satisfaction would decrease at Ritz-Carlton if it used technology such as automatic check-in kiosks? Why or why not? Do you think that Ritz-Carlton might find itself at a competitive disadvantage to hotels that are embracing technology to become more efficient and effective? Why or why not?