integrated crm best practices report
DESCRIPTION
25 pages; based on the experiences of 216 companies A key challenge companies face today involves integration with sales and marketing processes and platforms. Leading CRM/SFA solution users and providers are just now beginning to focus on this integration challenge, which is ushering in the next evolution in CRM/SFA technology, what Gleanster refers to as Integrated CRM or “iCRM.”This Gleansight benchmark report explores why companies today are implementing integrated CRM/SFA platforms, the challenges they are encountering during and after these implementations, and the performance metrics they are using to track and measure their progress over time.TRANSCRIPT
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Integrated Customer Relationship Management
(iCRM) Report
Key Findings DeckPublication Date: 5/2011
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What’s In This Deck?
೦ Insights and Best Practices from Top Performers– Top 3 reasons Top Performers use iCRM– Top 3 tactics Top Performers use to outperform peers with
iCRM initiatives– Most common challenge Top Performers face with iCRM– Top 5 Performance Metrics Top Performers use to measure
the success of iCRM initiatives
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Reasons to Implement
೦ Increase company revenue
೦ Achieve tighter coordination between marketing and sales
೦ Improve sales information reports/forecasts accuracy and comprehensiveness
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೦ Improve sales data quality and analytics
೦ Enable sales management to receive info and make real-time decisions
೦ Streamline and establish consistency in the company’s sales process
Value Drivers
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೦ Driving sales personnel adoption
೦ Ensuring data credibility೦ Integrating the platform
with other company sales and marketing software/systems
೦ Modifying the platform to fit the company’s sales processes
Challenges
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೦ Annual revenue೦ Actual vs. forecasted
revenue೦ Win/loss percentage by
rep೦ System usage೦ Average deal size
Performance Metrics
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