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Chapter 1
Customer Relationship Management
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| CRM | A disciplined approach to managing the customer journey from initial acquisition to their transition to a high-spending, profitable, advocate for the company’s brands |
| Strategic CRM | The aspect of company-level strategy that advocates a customer-centric approach to identifying, winning, developing, and keeping profitable customers |
| Operational CRM | The integration and automation of customer-facing processes such as selling, marketing, and customer service that create customer experience |
| Analytical CRM | The process through which organizations transform customer-related data into actionable insight useful for strategic and/or operational CRM |
| Campaign management | Allows marketers to use customer-related data to develop, execute, and evaluate targeted communications and offers across multiple channels |
| Event-based (trigger) marketing | Identifies significant events or triggers relevant to the customer as the basis of communications content |
| Marketing optimization | Targeting communications as precisely as possible to simultaneously maximize effectiveness and efficiency of marketing resources |
| Account management | Maintains positive relationships with current customers through insight and planned communication |
| Lead management | Develops new sales leads through analytics and insights, and targeted communications |
| Opportunity management | Prioritizes sales opportunities and applies a workflow to coordinate sales, marketing, and operations activities to convert sales opportunities into new business |
| Pipeline management | Profiles sales opportunities in terms of the types of products/services in demand, the timing of such demand, and recommends a suitable service approach |
| Contact management | Maintains records of communications from and to potential, current, and previous customers |
| Product configuration | Through analytics and insight, recommends a product combination for a target customer |
| Quotation and proposal generation | Normally through a structured workflow, the application develops a new proposal or quotation for a specified product offering for a given customer |
| Case (incident or issue) management | Upon receipt of a customer enquiry, creates a record of a customer issue and generates a workflow to coordinate its resolution |
| Customer communications management | Includes mechanisms to receive customer messages and to convey information to the customer (such as status updates) |
| Queuing and routing | The system uses algorithms to identify the most efficient set of steps necessary to resolve the customer issue and subsequently allocates the issue (or parts thereof) to appropriate resources |
| Service level management | Monitors different service levels according to a set of pre-determined standards, identifies any deviations, and recommends remedies |