Your customers have choices not just from your competitors. Analyze the forces that influence your industry’s attractiveness for you and project how CRM investments can help shape it.
Rely on the techniques of Root cause Analysis and ask ‘why’ enough number of times to arrive at the real reasons for failures of CRM issues. Do not take hunches and hypotheses at face value.
Align your CRM initiative to the context of the organization's mission, purpose, what it does and how it strives to be unique in the eyes of its customers.
The internal analysis assesses your ability to perform well in response to business challenges. This points to your strengths and weaknesses as an organization. We were […]
The Power-Interest Grid where you map power and influence of the stakeholder on the project is an excellent pointer to how actively to manage them and what to anticipate in terms of their attitude to the system.
Staff the COE with specialists for focusing on user adoption. User Training, Communication Plans and Business Process Improvements are areas that they could champion
Study the environment of the organization to understand and determine the customer strategy to pursue. Each organization operates within an operating environment and a more remote […]
Business Analysis identifies what it takes the business to evolve from its current state to an aspired one. Systems Analysis on the other hand, directly addresses the requirements of systems being developed.
Your CRM project is conceptualized in the context of your organization’s customer strategy. It is important for the implementers to grasp and fully appreciate this context
Your Salesforce CRM project may be one of several types. ‘Build from Scratch’',• Automation of manual CRM process, Migrations, Enhancements and re-designing current processes
Here are our observations from DF 2016, posted in three parts. These are observations coming from our client and partner interactions, and sessions we attended at Dreamforce 2016. […]
The theme for SMB at Dreamforce has traditionally been on how CRM and SF Sales/Service/Marketing technologies aid growth. Automating processes in order to scale them is […]
We have been working with a non profit organization on their strategic planning. Thought this subset from the list of considerations /guidelines we came up with, […]
For all clients, whether kicking off a CRM initiative for the first time, or for those recalibrating their current initiatives, we advise a 1-2 day planning […]