To compete in today's competitive marketplace, customer focus is no longer simply nice to have—it's a fundamental mandate. This book is a manager's best friend, providing both a primer and a how-to guide to defining and implementing Customer Relationship Management. It shows you:
- The various roles CRM plays in business, and why it's more important than ever
- 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
- The differences between CRM and business intelligence, and why they're symbiotic
- Why the customer-relationship failure rate is so high, and how to avoid becoming another CRM statistic
- Case studies of visionary companies who've done CRM the right way
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