DEFINITION OF CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT 
 

Customer Relationship Management is :

 

  • A management philosophy driven by customer relations,

  •  Improving your commercial processes: Sales  -  Services  -  Marketing and

  • Supported by an IT system that manages all the interactions with the customer under one single platform


  
CRM IS A MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY: Driven by
       Customer relations

  • The workflows are described into actions and the relations with Customers are structured and categorised

  • The actions are recorded in a Data Warehouse that produces Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

  • The Data Warehouse allows theuse of Datamining Systems that will find useful correlations.

  • KPIs and Datamining will feed the Operational Management in order to allow data driven decision taking.

  • The Balanced Scorecard is a preformatted comparison between the desired performance level and the reality.It is analysed on a predefined frequency in order to allow the perenniality of the Enterprises and it is one important element of sound Corporate Governance.


 IMPROVING YOUR COMMERCIAL

      PROCESSES: (Sales, Services, Marketing)

  • The information about Customer relations will be used for decision making in order to improve the commercial processes.

  • Implementing a Customer Contact Center (Service Center- Call Center) as such is not a necessary part of a CRM project.

  • When the data produced in the Contact Center by customer relations is used in order to diagnose areas for improvement, then we talk about CRM.

  • For example: statistic about the questions raised to the Contact Center (Service Center - Call Center) will induce process modifications in order to suppress or reduce the need for asking or in order to inform preventively the Customers.


 

SUPPORTED BY AN IT SYSTEM THAT MANAGES ALL THE INTER ACTION WITH THE
    CUSTOMER UNDER ONE SINGLE PLATFORM

 

  • The same platform will:

    Give support to the users: efficiency tools, faster access to information, lead generation, …

    • Help users for their own activity management: diary management, lead follow up, activity reporting, …
    • Produce management data for coaching, training and evaluating individuals
    • Produce management data for assessing Company performances, producing KPI and feeding the Data Mining Systems.