On Tuesday January 12th we had discussion on the convergence between SCRM and Enterprise 2.0.
My introduction to the topic summarized what I see as the main issue: SCRM and Enterprise 2.0 are heading in the same direction (customer-centricity), talking about the same issues (engagement), using the same technologies (collaboration), and solving similar problems (culture, politics, [...]
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 [...]
Funny thing happened to me this week.
I attended the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco and an SCRM conference showed up.
It all started with the keynotes on day one:
Tammy Erickson from nGenera delivered the opening address (she did a great job) talking about the differences between traditional enterprise and Enterprise 2.0: changes in society, people [...]
Read the rest of this entry »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” [...]
Will Social CRM eventually be viewed as an extension of existing CRM or as just one critical component in adapting to the realities of a Web-connected world? Will companies deploy SCRM as a result of thinking “how can we improve customer relationship management?” or will they deploy SCRM as a result of thinking “how can we transform ourselves into a socially-driven business?”
Read the rest of this entry »If you have been following the #SCRM Accidental Community on Twitter lately you probably have seen my crazy rants against — well, anyone out there who calls SCRM a market, or a technology – or anything other than new channels for CRM.
This post is an attempt to summarize some of those rants and move the [...]
