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CRM January 21, 2005 Eric Krell |
Churchill Downs Bets on Its Brand Month 8: Strategic deal-making marks a new approach to funding CRM. |
CRM August 2, 2004 Eric Krell |
Building Buy-In Among User Communities Churchill Downs' vice president of CRM and technology solutions says people will make money for the company, not software. |
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 June 1, 2005 Eric Krell |
The Race Won, the Payout Begins Month 12: To make good on its year-one deliverables Churchill Downs' CRM team must make believers out of everyone. |
CRM March 1, 2005 Eric Krell |
Trotting Out CRM Champions Month 9: Forget Smarty Jones--a new champion is inspiring the Churchill Downs crowd. Recognition programs offset the tedium of data integration work. |
CRM September 1, 2004 Eric Krell |
The 7 Deadly Bells of CRM The 7 things that can slow or stop a CRM implementation in its tracks. |
CRM December 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: In 2007 my Company Plans to... Increase its CRM budget: 40%... Maintain its CRM budget: 27%... etc. |
CRM September 2005 Eric Krell |
CRM's 7 Deadly Warning Bells We return to the site of the Kentucky Derby's parent company to examine the seven CRM warning bells and to flesh out year-one lessons that will help other CRM project managers improve their odds of success. |
CRM October 18, 2004 Eric Krell |
Transforming Data to Results Month 5: Churchill Downs discovers new customer segments that improve its loyalty program. |
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 November 15, 2004 Eric Krell |
People Ultimately Create CRM Success Month 6: At the halfway mark of year one of Churchill Downs' enterprisewide CRM initiative, a team of thoroughbreds is moving Churchill Downs closer to a winning finish. |
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. |
CRM October 2003 Ginger Conlon |
How Satisfied are You With CRM? That's the question CRM magazine recently asked its readers. More than 330 executives voiced their opinions. |
CRM September 17, 2004 Eric Krell |
What Happens When the Big Picture Blurs? Month 4: Focusing too narrowly on one aspect of a CRM initiative may cause you to lose sight of your ultimate goal. |
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 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 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 April 1, 2005 Eric Krell |
Dirty Data Rears Its Head Month 10: The year-one finish line for Churchill Downs' massive CRM initiative was in sight when the project manager pointed out a problem with bad data. |
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 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 July 2003 Laura Pollard |
Enterprise Schmenterprise Who truly sees the value of enterprise CRM? |
CRM April 2015 Barton Goldenberg |
Social CRM in Action Businesses discover the value of social communities. |
CRM February 2, 2004 |
Why CRM? An exclusive survey reveals the primary motivators for deploying CRM. |
CRM April 1, 2008 |
The Pulse How Does Your Company Handle its CRM Solution? |
CRM July 2004 Joshua Weinberger |
5 Ways to Ensure CRM Success Want to predict whether your CRM project will falter or thrive? Chances are the quality of your technology won't be the deciding factor. |
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 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 December 2003 Ginger Conlon |
CRM Success Is Your Responsibility You can't just purchase CRM software, load it up, and expect it to work. |
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 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 May 2004 Emmy Favilla |
CRM in Action: Inova Tackles Training to Ensure CRM Success Inova Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare system in Northern Virginia, wanted to ensure the success of its CRM system. |
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 January 2004 Jason Compton |
How to use training to get buy-in for CRM Unless CRM project leaders bring to the training table a clear picture of how their teams will accomplish these goals, their CRM strategy may be prematurely grounded. |
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 February 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Can't Get No Dissatisfaction In an exclusive survey conducted, CRM magazine finds that a surprising number of executives are pleased with their CRM system -- and with their results. |
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 January 2005 Barton Goldenberg |
5 Ways to Refocus Your CRM Efforts This year, seize new opportunities for gaining--and keeping--customer loyalty. |
CRM December 2006 Barton Goldenberg |
Getting Executive Buy-In: A Pocket Guide Don't take it for granted, define the CRM initiative's goals from the jump, and closely link the organization's business direction to the initiative. |
CRM October 1, 2003 Paul Greenberg |
A Commonwealth of Self-Interest CRM initiatives will succeed only if users see value in using them. |
CRM March 2003 Dick Lee |
Don't Blame CRM Managers shouldn't expect success if users haven't been sold on CRM. |
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 April 2010 Barton Goldenberg |
Your People Are Half the Battle You have a simple choice: Prepare your people or prepare for failure. |
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 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 September 2004 Ginger Conlon |
The 2004 Influential Leaders Spotlighting those people who have had a significant impact on their organization or on the CRM industry in the past year. |
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 November 3, 2003 |
Insuring CRM Success A recent Aberdeen Group study found that CRM investment is on the rise in the insurance industry. |
CRM March 3, 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Take My Advice, Please Several CRM industry executives answer the question: If you could give one piece of advice to CRM project leaders, what would it be? |
CRM August 2, 2004 Chris Selland |
Back to the Future Today's CRM technology is better than ever but the vast majority of companies are driving down the same old cow path with, at best, a faster cart. |
CRM October 2010 Barton Goldenberg |
A Quarter-Century in CRM An industry veteran looks back at the lessons learned over the course of 25 years. |