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CHAPTER 9

Customer Relationship Management

CHAPTER OUTLINE
9.1 Defining Customer Relationship Management 9.2 Operational Customer Relationship Management 9.3 Analytical Customer Relationship Management 9.4 Other Types of Customer Relationship Management Applications

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Define customer relationship management

and discuss the objectives of CRM. Describe operational CRM and its major components. Describe analytical CRM. Discuss mobile CRM, on-demand CRM, and open-source CRM.

Customer Intimacy?
You

Your competition Your customer

Your problem

The Need for CRM


It costs six times more to sell to a new

customer than to sell to an existing one. A typical dissatisfied customer will tell 8-10 people. By increasing the customer retention rate by 5%, profits could increase by 85%. Odds of selling to new customers = 15%, compared to the odds of selling to existing customers (50%) 70% of complaining customers will remain loyal if their problem is solved

9.1 Defining Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management


Customer relationship management (CRM) is an organizational strategy that is customer-focused and customer-driven; it is not just a process or a technology. A way of thinking and acting in a customer-centric fashion treating different customers differently because their needs differ and their value to the company also may differ.

Tenets of CRM
One-to-one relationship between a

customer and a seller. Treat different customers differently. Keep profitable customers and maximize lifetime revenue from them.

CRM Process and Goal


Involving managing all aspects of a customers relationship with an organization to increase customer loyalty and retention and an organization's profitability

Lifetime Customer Value

Elements of Successful CRM Policies


Identify many types of customer touch

points Consolidate data about each customer

Customer Touch Points


Web Computer Physical Store

Smart Phone

Customer Service

CUSTOMER
Service Center

Sales Representative Field Service Technician

Email

Direct Mail

360-Degree View of Customers

Data Consolidation
Accounting POM

Finance
Customer

HR

Marketing

MIS

Database for CRM

Evolution of CRM
CRM reporting technology help organizations

identify their customers across other applications


CRM analysis technologies help organization

segment their customers into categories such as best and worst customers
CRM predicting technologies help

organizations make predictions regarding customer behavior such as which customers are at risk of leaving

Evolution of CRM
Three phases in the evolution of CRM include

reporting, analyzing, and predicting

Evolution of CRM

9.2 Operational CRM

Operational CRM is the component of CRM

that supports the front-office business processes that directly interact with customers (i.e., sales, marketing, and service).

Operational CRM

Two major components of operational CRM:


Customer-facing applications Customer-touching applications

Major Components of Operational CRM


Customer-facing applications Applications where an organizations sales, field service, and customer interaction center representatives actually interact with customers Customer-touching applications

Applications where customers interact directly with online technologies and applications rather than interact with a company representative

Customer-Facing Applications
Customer service and support

Sales force automation Marketing

Campaign management

Marketing
Cross selling Up selling Bundling

Customer-Touching Applications
Search and comparison capabilities

Technical and other information and services

Customized products and services

Loyalty programs

9.3 Analytical CRM


Analytical CRM systems analyze customer behavior and perceptions in order to provide actionable business intelligence.

Analytical CRM

Supports back-office operations and strategic analysis and includes all systems that do not deal directly with the customers Analytical CRM relies heavily on data warehousing technologies and business intelligence to glean insights into customer behavior These systems quickly aggregate, analyze, and disseminate customer information throughout an organization

Using IT to Drive Analytical CRM

Personalization when a Web site knows enough about a persons likes and dislikes that it can fashion offers that are more likely to appeal to that person

Data mining tools analyze large volumes of data and to extract information and find patterns & relationships

Data Mining for CRM


Common forms of data-mining analysis capabilities include:

Cluster analysis Association detection Statistical analysis

Cluster Analysis

Cluster analysis a technique used to divide an information set into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible CRM systems depend on cluster analysis to segment customer information and identify behavioral traits

Association Detection

Association detection reveals the degree to which variables are related and the nature and frequency of these relationships in the information

Market basket analysis

Statistical Analysis

Statistical analysis performs such functions as information correlations, distributions, calculations, and variance analysis

Forecast predictions made on the basis of time-series information Time-series information time-stamped information collected at a particular frequency

The Relationship Between Operational CRM and Analytical CRM


Customer-facing Applications Sales Marketing Customer Service and Support Campaign Management Customer-touching Applications Search and Comparison Customized Products Technical Information Personalized Web Pages FAQ E-mail / Auto Response Loyalty Programs

Customer Data Warehouse

Data Mining Decision Support Business Intelligence OLAP

9.4 Other Types of CRM


On-demand CRM

Mobile CRM: Pal Mickey at Disneyworld

Open-source CRM

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