CRM Handbook, The

To compete effectively, today's organizations seek to become customer-focused, not product-focused. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology promises to help your enterprise do just that -- but implementing CRM presents unprecedented challenges throughout the organization. In The CRM Handbook, leading CRM expert Jill Dyche concise, to-the-point best practices for making CRM work. Jill Dyche begins by introducing CRM's value proposition, and demonstrating how it can significantly enhance the customer's experience. She explains why customer service is central to most CRM deployments, and provides benchmarks you can compare each of your customer touchpoints against. Dyche shows how CRM goes beyond managing customer leads to sharing customer knowledge; how CRM changes the customer's role in B2B and B2C supply chains; and how to use new "analytical CRM" techniques to make smarter strategic decisions. The CRM Handbook contains extensive coverage of planning and deploying CRM, including gauging complexity, choosing tools and vendors, staffing CRM projects, overcoming implementation roadblocks, and much more. An essential resource for every manager involved with -- or considering -- a CRM implementation.

A how-to guide to defining and implementing Customer Relationship Management. This book shows you: the various roles CRM plays in business; the range of CRM applications and uses, from sales force automation to campaign management to e-CRM and beyond; the context of some of the popular CRM buzzwords; and more.Praise for The CRM Handbook “Want to avoid being one of the estimated 70 percent of companies who have tried implementing standalone CRM systems and failed? Confused by what your IT suppliers are telling you about ‘CRM’? Then you need to read this book! Jill provides acomprehensive, practical, and easy to understand view of CRM and shows you how to successfully implement an enterprise customer-focused solution.”          – Kevin Bubeck              Director, North America Information Strategy, Coca-Cola “CRM could be viewed as the ERP of the 2000s. As such, there will be multiple winners and losers as the marketplace places some large and strategic bets on this technology. In any case, Jill Dyché has captured the importance of the concepts and value derived through CRM solutions. Those needs will evolve, of course, but companies will always need the basics that have been discussed.”          – Brian Berliner              Co-founder & EVP, Product Development, Acies Networks “The CRM Handbook provides information for the business person who is trying to understand CRM and how it can effect his/her business. It goes beyond the hype of the acronym and dives into the real issues that a company needs to consider before implementing a CRM solution.”          – Joy Blake Scott              Director, Marketing and Communications, Fastwater, LLP “I haven’t read anything that has such a practical approach. I view the book as having multiple benefits. It gives a good definition of CRM functionality but also gives detailed guidance of how to approach CRM in your organization.”          – Francine Frazer              Principal Consultant, Net Perceptions “Even better than defining CRM, Jill took on all of the hyperlanguage around CRM and clearly differentiated the various incarnations of CRM. It’s also usefulto know what can go wrong and the potential affects of such missteps. Too few authors level with readers about pitfalls!”          – Linda McHugh              Director, Professional Services, Cygent Inc. “The guides based on the business tools that Jill uses with her own clients are fabulous.”          – Robin Neidorf              ...