Posts Tagged ‘customer relationship management’

My Foray into Enterprise 2.0

I am a glutton for punishment, apparently.  Not only I have not learned from diving into Social CRM early on, but I am trying the same fate now with Enterprise 2.0.
Why? Convergence.
If you remember, this is one of my key topics for 2010.  No, we will not witness convergence between Social CRM and Enterprise 2.0 [...]

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The Roadmap to SCRM – Part 4 of 5

Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2.1 – SCRM-E2.0 Pivot Point
Part 2.2 – SCRM Business Functions
Part 3 – SCRM Rules Layer
We find ourselves now having to decide which channels (remember? Social CRM is adding social channels to CRM) we are going to use to deliver the business functions we picked earlier, and to fulfill the rules [...]

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The Roadmap to SCRM, Part 3 of 5

Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2.1 – Pivot Point
Part 2.2 – Business Functions
It is important to recap a couple of things that we said before:

The SCRM Strategy is composed of multiple sub-strategies, some of which you may already have in existence
The roadmap to SCRM is an iterative process, where you will re-visit many times each strategy [...]

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The Roadmap to SCRM – Part 2.2 of 5

Part 1 can be found here
Part 2.1 can be found here
This post was begotten by interesting comments I got to part 1.  My assumption that everyone should already understand the functions that comprise CRM, and how they should be addressed in building a SCRM strategy is not correct.
Current CRM Functions.  As everyone knows, CRM is [...]

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CRM at Oracle OpenWorld 2009: Improved with Room to Grow

This review covers the main CRM product, I am going to do a review of OnDemand (or at least get the information) later today and tomorrow.
You probably already read the reports of what Oracle has announced for CRM at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 (here is an official Press Release and a link to the Press Release [...]

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That Which We Call a Rose by Any Other Name Would Still be CRM

Today’s issue: what to name Social CRM and where to place it within the organization.
Why does it matter?  I have been writing and researching the CRM market for a while and have seen the new terms come and go, most of them leaving little in the sense of progress for the CRM industry.  My “job” [...]

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Backtracking Your SCRM Vision as a Strategic Tool

(I know I have been lagging publishing lately, but been reading, researching, thinking and trying to put together the SCRM roadmap.  Coming soon)
These are some thoughts I had today while talking to Allen Bonde, exceptional marketer and great thought leader for the CRM world.
We were trying to figure out a way to create a path [...]

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A Brief History of SCRM

Paul Greenberg put the stake in the ground by defining SCRM and said that we needed to grow if from there.
I agree.  And it is in that spirit that I want to introduce this post.  A little bit longer that most of my posts, but a way to start the conversation on what does SCRM [...]

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The Loyalty Open Definition Experiment: Lessons Learned

I have made adjustments to the way I think about Loyalty.
I want to thank everyone for participating, reading, commenting, and for providing very thoughtful point-of-views that I had not considered before.  I went through all the comments and summarized them into six lessons learned:
The choice of loyalty remains with the customer – We knew [...]

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How to Define and Calculate Value for Customer Interactions

Value, the final frontier.
That is not just a bad attempt at a pun, it is a reality of what people through times have thought of value.  There are many “types” of values: legal, economical, ethical, quantitative, qualitative, and financial value – just to name a few.  There are also issues of perceived, realized, and corroborated [...]

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