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Posts Tagged 'CRM Success'

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Can You Add a CRM Field Please?

Sometimes saying "yes" to make your CRM users happy can create unnecessary complexity that chips away at the user experience and, ultimately, hurts adoptin. In this article we'll look at some helpful questions to ask before adding a new field to CRM. 

CRM Best Practices - Too Many Fields

The Problem with CRM Projects? Leaders Must Lead!

Dynamics CRM Failure In a recent presentation from a Global Sales Manager of a manufacturing company, he stated that, "I learned that CRM is really about people, and CRM is really about leadership." In this article, we summarize the lessons learned by this leader, and how other Sales Managers can learn from his experience. How do your organization's leaders stand with a CRM solution? 

Characteristics of a Failing CRM Project

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According to our CPR for CRM study, which is also confirmed by Merkle Group Inc.’s 2013 study, CRM projects have up to a 60% failure rate. In other words, when you launch a CRM project, the chances are that it will end in failure! After a recent webcast discussion of CRM failure, we were asked to engage with a company who had started off strong, but after a few years, they were struggling. The issues they were experiencing were typical of many other companies that we work with.  See if these symptoms sound familiar to you...

 

How is Your CRM Project Doing? Judge for Yourself.

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Don’t tell my boss, but I hate CRM.

Research suggests that leadership’s opinion of CRM success is often different from the teams using CRM on the front lines.  And IT, Sales, Customer Service and Marketing can all have radically different opinions of an organization’s CRM solution. C5 Insight has introduced a free to download tool that can be used as a self-evaluation to rate the success or failure of your CRM project.

Sure Way to a CRM Fail: "If We Build CRM [Right], They Will Come”

No one is using our CRM solutionAfter working with hundreds of companies and investing hundreds of hours into CRM success and failure research, there is one thing we have never heard from organizations that have successfully implemented CRM: “Our CRM was such a good tool for our sales team, that they want to use it.”

In other words, CRM is not going to be your Field of Dreams.  If you build it, they won’t come – no matter how good it is.

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CPR for CRM Study

The complementary paper includes over 12 years of research, recent survey results, and CRM turnaround success stories.

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SharePoint Readiness Assessment

This 60-second assessment is designed to evaluate your organization's collaboration readiness.

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CRM Self Assessment

Learn how you rank compared to organizations typically in years 1 to 5 of implementation - and which areas to focus on to improve.

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SharePoint Feedback Solution

This is a sandbox solution which can be activated per site collection to allow you to easily collect feedback from users into a custom Feedback list.

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SharePoint Upgrade Checklist

Whether you are upgrading to SharePoint Online, 2010, 2013 or the latest 2016, this checklist contains everything you need to know for a successful transition.