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Raymond James Financial is a global financial services firm with more than 4,600 Advisors. Because 80 percent of these Advisors are independent contractors who operate remotely, the company found it...
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How does one engage the customers, and what's different about this from the best service offered today? It's normal today to wait for the customers to call, write, or click...
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Current bank trends indicate profit margins are flat. Retaining top bank customers is becoming harder and harder. Is your financial institution ready to buck this trend? With seven thought-provoking white...
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption is new to Microsoft SQL Server 2000. In previous versions of SQL Server, we used the Multiprotocol Network library to encrypt the data between the...
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Successful customer-oriented companies have figured out that customer relationships can only be built one interaction at a time, and are re-aligning objectives around just that: the customer interaction. Given this...
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Customer service has become one of the burning issues confronting businesses. Very likely, you have already implemented one or more customer-focused strategies and some form of customer service system in...
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While Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) has made significant inroads into the North American market, it has wrestled with an issue facing many automotive manufacturers and financial services companies....
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Transmed is a sales, distribution, and bottling organization for fast moving consumer goods in the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The challenges were to streamline warehouse management and...
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Customer loyalty might be the only sustainable competitive advantage, especially in challenging economic times. Yet, so few businesses understand how to create customer loyalty that the average U.S. company loses...
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CWI, or the Centrum voor Werk en Inkomen (the Center for Work and Income), is the Netherlands' gatekeeper to social services and a trusted advisor for people seeking employment. CWI...
A recent Gartner Group survey echoed the DMR findings stating that only three per cent of organisations have implemented CRM solutions so far. The book also hopes to tighten up the definition of the term CRM, which Ray McKenzie, author of the book...
But there is also a reluctance to hand it all over systems integrators. The cable company's frontline staff will connect to all manner of back end systems - covering areas such as billing, workflow management and CRM - using a portal and Microsoft...
But the failure of so many CRM projects cannot be blamed purely on bad timing. The failure to integrate it with other areas of the organisation meant that CRM could only deliver limited benefits. Whatever the size of your business, if you're...
These companies "will now point to Xchange's failure as another reason to single-source all CRM apps", he said. Xchange's failure could leave in the lurch those customers, which include major US names like Allstate, Staples and Fidelity, according...
27.10.99 Many customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives in the world's largest companies are at "serious risk of failure", according to research from the Meta Group. Although 80 per cent of companies polled said they have at least one CRM...
Last month, the Meta Group published research showing a high proportion of the world's largest companies have CRM initiatives that are at "serious risk of failure". The phrase customer relationship management (CRM) has been hard to avoid in 1999...