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CRM
March 2003
Ginger Conlon |
A Room With a (Point of) View Executives on the SuperPowers of CRM panel offer their opinions on where the market is headed and how to get there ahead of the pack.   |
CRM
December 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: In 2007 my Company Plans to... Increase its CRM budget: 40%... Maintain its CRM budget: 27%... etc. |
CRM
August 27, 2003
Ginger Conlon |
Don't Initiate CRM Until You Ask These Questions I had the opportunity recently to meet with executives at five of the largest CRM vendor companies. They discussed vendor accountability and the one question companies must ask their prospective CRM vendors. |
CRM
March 1, 2004
Ginger Conlon |
CRM Strategy Is Taking Center Stage Organizations are increasingly adopting CRM as a business strategy rather than as simply a technology |
CRM
March 2012
Jim Dickie |
Are the CRM Wars Really Over? Existing CRM users would be well advised to test the waters to see if something that would work better for them exists. |
CRM
August 2, 2004 |
Who's Who in CRM In May CRM magazine presented a list of some of the industry's key players. This month we continue that recognition with a look at two executives from Microsoft. |
CRM
March 3, 2003
Jason Flynn |
Vertical Focus: Manufacturing How do you get penetration in a market that is notoriously slow to accept new technologies and adapt to new things? Very carefully. That is good advice for those trying to sell CRM to manufacturers. |
CRM
July 1, 2003
Phillip Britt |
Eight Building Blocks for CRM Success Companies are continuing to pursue CRM projects in 2003 despite the discontent from many about earlier failures and the harsh business climate. But most companies are now taking a more cautious approach to their implementations. |
CRM
March 3, 2003
Ginger Conlon |
Creating a CRM Culture Companies want their people to use new CRM processes, but what's most important is getting those employees to think differently. If your company does not fully embrace CRM, the initiative will stall or fail. |
CIO
February 1, 2002
Danielle Dunne |
Beware of the CRM Backlash Jill Dyche contends that CRM projects would work better if companies did a better job defining their specific needs... |
CRM
March 2003
Ginger Conlon |
Stand by Me One of the main reasons companies implement CRM is to foster customer loyalty. But as a customer of CRM vendors, how loyal should you be? |
CRM
January 2010
Barton Goldenberg |
Assessing Your CRM Situation You can't know where you are unless you look - and look hard. |
CRM
March 1, 2005
David Myron |
What Is CRM? Defining CRM as merely a technology solution only distorts its purpose and value. It is better to view CRM as a business process. |
CRM
November 3, 2003
Ginger Conlon |
Take My Advice -- Please During the recent Frost & Sullivan Sales & Marketing Strategies Executive Summit, we asked the SuperPowers of CRM panelists: If you were in an elevator and had 30 seconds to give one important piece of advice on CRM, what would it be? |
CRM
April 1, 2008 |
The Pulse How Does Your Company Handle its CRM Solution? |
CRM
September 2004
Britt et al. |
The 2004 Market Leaders CRM vendors have individually and collectively worked to build confidence in the discipline, and those efforts are paying off. Read on to see what companies prevailed from 2003, and how others are leaving an indelible mark on the industry. |
CRM
July 1, 2004 |
The Pulse: Does Your CEO Use the CRM Tools Your Company Has in Place? Graph shows that 53% of CEOs don't use CRM tools. |
CRM
November 2003
Ginger Conlon |
How Do You Measure Success? Let us count the ways: Sales measures success one way, marketing another way, service another, and IT yet another. For this reason the first step of any CRM initiative should be to set mutually agreed-upon goals and metrics. |
CRM
July 2003
Laura Pollard |
Enterprise Schmenterprise Who truly sees the value of enterprise CRM? |
CRM
September 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: Is Your Company Using or Planning to Use Open Source CRM? A Reader Poll: We Use an Open Source CRM Solution: 22%... We Are Planning to Implement an Open Source CRM Solution in 2006: 14%... etc. |
CIO
May 1, 2002
Lafe Low |
What We're Buying When you look at the IT shopping lists of most companies, CRM technology is consistently at the top. In fact, CRM spending will outpace spending in other infrastructure technology categories such as content management and supply chain management... |
CRM
March 25, 2011
Jim Davies |
Applying the Eight Building Blocks of CRM to Social Media How to improve the effectiveness and long-term success of social CRM initiatives |
CRM
August 2010 |
The 2010 CRM Elite: An Introduction Successful CRM implementations may seem more common these days than they've been in the past, but that's no reason to be any less vocal in applauding excellence. |
CRM
July 2006
Jim Dickie |
Demystifying CRM Adoption Rates Sales, marketing, and support teams will have to consistently leverage technology if they are going to achieve the performance levels necessary to do their jobs. Ensuring that you cover these factors will take you a long way toward realizing the full promise that CRM holds. |
CRM
April 13, 2004
Ginger Conlon |
People Are the Most Important Part of the CRM Equation Customer focus starts at the very top of the organization. |
CRM
April 2003
Ginger Conlon |
Making CRM Pay Off Like any worthwhile endeavor, it takes a great deal of planning and effort to get real results from CRM. |
CRM
September 2005
Barton Goldenberg |
'Information at Your Fingertips' These five business drivers will propel real-time CRM over the next decade: The need to be increasingly customer focused... Increased competition... An increased emphasis on better market segmentation... etc. |
CRM
April 2006
Barton Goldenberg |
Executive Support: The Most Important CRM Success Factor For organizations that have succeeded in their CRM initiative, executive support stands out as the single most important ingredient for success. Let's examine why by looking at examples of three levels of executive support. |
CRM
November 2014
Eric Barkin |
Maximize the ROI of Your CRM Solution: Learn How to Get the Most for the Least The payoff from your CRM system is determined as much by your commitment to it as by the strength of the technology. |
CRM
July 1, 2004
Ginger Conlon |
CRM: Alive and Kicking Instead of complaining about the confusion with CRM, we should educate people interested in implementing CRM--the strategy--in their companies. |
CRM
April 2008
Jim Dickie |
The Poker Dynamics of CRM Today's companies are finding a full house of technology options. |
CRM
May 2003
Frederick Newell |
Who's the Boss? In Why CRM Doesn't Work: How to Win by Letting Customers Manage the Relationship, the author reminds us who should really be in charge. An excerpt. |
CRM
October 1, 2003
Paul Greenberg |
A Commonwealth of Self-Interest CRM initiatives will succeed only if users see value in using them. |
CRM
January 2006
Barton Goldenberg |
CRM: The Past and the Future Born of contact management applications 25 years ago, enterprise software systems have come a long way. |
CRM
November 2003
Barton Goldenberg |
CRM Is Not a Game of Chance Don't commit to any CRM application until first understanding your CRM needs -- then understand which CRM application best meets them. |
CRM
March 1, 2004 |
Just 1 Question Should companies expect their CRM vendors to help them use CRM to determine who their most profitable customers are? |
CRM
August 2010
David Myron |
Social CRM Gains Social Acceptance The emerging tools and technologies have already influenced the outcome of this year's CRM Market Awards. |
CRM
December 2003
Ginger Conlon |
A Winning Formula Top executives from five leading vendors voice their opinions on how companies can unite sales and marketing to create a customer-centric organization. |
CRM
September 19, 2014
Sameer Bhatia |
5 Reasons Your CRM Is Failing (and What You Can Do About It) Don't let these common, but fixable, obstacles stand in the way of CRM success. |
CRM
September 8, 2010
Ed Jenks |
So Many CRM Service Providers, So Little Time Whether your strategy is operational excellence, product innovation, or customer intimacy, CRM is essential to achieve customer satisfaction. So how do you choose? |
CRM
September 2004
Barton Goldenberg |
Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse Process excellence helps some companies enhance business processes like streamlining new product development and improving CRM. |
CRM
October 2010
Lauren McKay |
A Healthy Dose of User Adoption UnitedHealthcare overhauls its CRM program to embrace an on-demand solution that users will actually use. |
CRM
March 2007
Colin Beasty |
The Enlightened Enterprise As big businesses enter phase 2 (and for some, phase 3) of their varying CRM initiatives, these tips will refine the advance. |
CRM
August 2, 2004 |
The Pulse: Is your CRM initiative designed to... What's your CRM initiative designed to do, meet customer needs or internal needs? Results of a reader poll. |
CRM
April 2010
Barton Goldenberg |
Your People Are Half the Battle You have a simple choice: Prepare your people or prepare for failure. |
CRM
April 1, 2005
Jason Compton |
Waiting for Wireless Can on-demand CRM developers cleanly cross over into offline operation? |
CRM
November 6, 2012
Leonard Klie |
Social Adds to CRM's Appeal Nucleus Research's Value Matrix highlights new functionality and integration capabilities. |
CRM
March 1, 2004 |
Hot Seat: The Demand for On-Demand CRM CRM magazine posed the question, "Will hosted CRM ever eclipse on-site CRM in terms of popularity?" |
CRM
May 2003
Ginger Conlon |
Love Is in the Air I recently attended customer events hosted by Onyx and Salesforce.com, during which these vendors were spreading the love. The love of their products, that is. Going to these events gave me the opportunity to speak to customers face-to-face about the results they're seeing from CRM. |
CRM
October 2013
Barton Goldenberg |
Software Advances Are Propelling CRM to New Heights Seven trends businesses cannot afford to ignore. |
