Insights

February 27, 2017

Evaluating Portfolio of CRM Initiatives

A powerful visual tool to organize and evaluate a large number of initiatives is a simple 2 x 2 grid. It guides you in prioritizing your initiatives.
February 18, 2017

10 Tips for Requirements Gathering Interviews on your CRM Projects

Tips for requirements and current state analysis interviews for your CRM system. The tips span planning, conducting and following up after your 1-1 stakeholder interviews.
February 10, 2017

Top 5 Business Analysis Activities on a CRM Project, Beyond Requirements

A CRM Business Analyst’s activities include relating the project to the company strategy, managing stakeholders, preparing business case & project scope, driving user adoption.
February 9, 2017

Process of building a CRM Business Case

The article lists activities that go into preparing a business case – analyzing high level requirements, assessing costs and benefits, risks, solution options and then selling the case.
February 9, 2017

Strategic Themes for CRM Initiatives

Cross reference observations from your workshops and interviews analyzing current state and cross reference them against best practices to arrive at strategic themes
February 8, 2017

Problem Statements and Business Goals guide the CRM Project Scope

For establishing the scope of the project, we need to think through the statement of the business problem being addressed and the goals that the CRM project is setting out to achieve.
February 7, 2017

User Adoption is a Critical Success Factor in Designing Salesforce Solutions

How effectively you drive adoption among your customer facing staff to bring enduring changes in business processes and behavior will define the success of your Salesforce initiatives.
February 7, 2017

Cause & Effect Analysis for Studying CRM Failures

Cause & Effect Analysis for studying CRM failures is illustrated using a real life example of analyzing declining sales by diving deeper into Processes, People, Structure, Planning.
February 6, 2017

Identifying Criteria for Selecting Solutions

In this article, we share a simple artifact from one of our client engagements that captures various stakeholder groups and what each one valued in a […]