Ch 11 CRM & SCM Flashcards
what is CRM
customer focused & driven organizaitonal strategy
customer centric way of thinking and acting
Retaining customers is particularly important because repeat customers are the largest generator of revenue for an enterprise.
what is an organizations overall goal
maximize the lifetime value of a customer
customer churn
over an orgs life, invetiably losing % of customers
crm fundamental concept
treat differenrt customers different ly to meet their needs
crm strategy vs crm system
strategy: companys strategy
sustem: info systems in place to support strategy
low end crm + ex
high end crm + ex
many small customers (amazon)
few large customers (bentley motors)
2 elements of CRM
- customer otuch points
2, consoldiating data
customer touch points
interactions b/w business and customer
using omni-channel marketing to touch w customers (all channels marketing)
-computer
-web
-phone
-call centre
-eail
data consolidation
-using data warehouses to create 360 view of a customer (with all data)
-helps with customer identity management (understand customer DNA)
-Collaborative CRM (interactive communication w customers across entire org)
what is customer identity management
consolidating data on customer into one identity
who does operational crm systems support (2 TYPES)
front office processes (direct interactions with customers)
TWO TYPES:
- customer facing apps
-customer touching apps
what do crm tools do?
- improve sales and acct maangement
- form individual erlations w customers
- identify most profitable customers
- provide employees w info
- identify and understand customer needs
customer facing apps
- customer support (call centre)
- salesforce automation
- marketing
- campaign management (target marketing)
customer touching applications (e-CRM)
APPS that customers dierctly interact with
- search and comparison capabilities
- technical and other info services
3.c customized products - personalized web page
- faqs
- email and auto response
- loyalty programs
analytical crm systems
give BI by analyzing customer behaviour and perceptions
-analyze customer data for a lot of purposes
5 developments in other types of crm
1) on demand crm: utility computing/SaaS
2) mobile crm
3) open source crm
4) social crm
5) real time crm: always on, always connected
on demand CRM
- hosted by an external vendor in the vendors data centre
- org has no costs for purchasing system
SaaS
Mobile CRM system
conduct operations of CRM thrhoguh a mobile medium
open source crm system
free crm systems for developers and users, but this is a bit risky and quality control is needed