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Customer relationship management transformation solution from IBM

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The goal
The customer's viewpoint
The customer relationship management transformation solution from IBM can help you learn more about your customers. It can give you better insight into their perceptions, expectations, experiences with your company and interactions with your staff. We can help you provide profitable, cost-appropriate, personalized service based on customer-defined value.

The advantage
Why choose IBM?
The customer relationship management transformation solution from IBM can help you design successful CRM initiatives. We offer a CRM practice with in-depth industry expertise and proven methodologies for all phases of the project from strategy development to deployment. Our offerings leverage:
  • A holistic view of your customers to help you retain them and win business that might otherwise have gone to competitors.
  • "Lessons learned" from our own e-business transformation experience to help you achieve maximum ROI on the shortest timeline.
  • Worldwide alliances with best-of-breed ISVs to help you assess and implement the right CRM applications for your company.
  • Flexible financing terms with a customized payment structure through IBM Global Financing.

The benefits
Create a profitable strategy
The customer relationship management transformation solution from IBM can help you better serve your customers by understanding them better. We can help you develop a sales and service road map by integrating CRM operational processes, analytical processes and direct customer collaboration. It is this outside-in perspective that helps determine your most profitable customer loyalty strategy.

Our offerings are designed to help:
  • Identify the optimum customer-centric strategy and approach to attain your CRM strategy, goals and objectives.
  • Provide a gap analysis, assessing your ability to implement and maintain your strategy.
  • Align customer-focused investments, initiatives and strategy with business strategy, goals and objectives.
  • Develop and implement a strategy so you can become customer focused—and customer preferred.

We can help you:
  • Differentiate your organization to attract and retain customers based upon value-added customer interaction across all channels.
  • Implement a customer-defined vision (segment-based or personalized, individual customer-based) of your company.
  • Identify business processes, channel capabilities, organizational and infrastructure changes required to consistently ensure customer value.

The approach
Customers—a better understanding
The customer relationship management transformation solution from IBM can help you by providing an external view of your organization. We combine proven methodologies with a set of predefined activities and tasks. The solution can include a combination of hardware and software, including:
  • Engagement templates containing best practices and benchmarking data.
  • Focused activities that leverage business intelligence, CRM and customer value management competencies.
  • A work breakdown structure that decomposes a series of complex tasks to support the customer-centric approach.

Through this engagement we can help you define a customer-centric approach to increase retention and satisfaction—resulting in more profitable relationships with your customers.

The financial advantage
Customer-driven return on investment
For your investment, the customer relationship management transformation solution from IBM can help you:
  • Use customer input to design more profitable sales, marketing and services channels.
  • Optimize channels by making offers through the most cost-appropriate access based on the value of the customer.
  • Optimize service processes by cutting costs without losing customers.
  • Increase customer spending.
  • Drive customer loyalty through key customer-defined differentiators.

Next steps
 
Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM financial services specialist.

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