There’s an awful lot of hype in the world of CRM, and it can be a pretty insightful, and potentially humbling, exercise to re-visit a project to see whether you’ve genuinely added value to a client’s business. I spent a morning last week reviewing how a client had fared since Continue Reading
The foundation for successful CRM…
Michael Bosworth/John Holland make the following observation in their book ‘Customer Centric Selling’ – ‘Because of the predominant perception that selling is more art than science, few companies have sales processes that traditional sellers can execute. We believe that this deficiency is the single most significant factor contributing to the Continue Reading
CRM technology selection…
The recent bankruptcies of Rover, Red Letter Days, and EU Jet, are a painful reminder that when companies go into administration the customer can get hurt, whether that’s the sudden depreciation of a recently purchased car, the un-experienced experience of a life time, or being marooned in a distant international Continue Reading
Comparing CRM project day rates…
An entry in Joel Spolsky’s ‘Joel on Software’ blog caught my eye the other day. In ‘Hitting the High Notes’ he sets out some of the research he has undertaken, which seeks to establish the magnitude of differences in development productivity. His conclusions, which were well in line with other Continue Reading