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Strategic Marketing 5

Key elements of the CRM

There are different applications for the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) which many organizations have developed and implemented in their organizations. These includes: customer service allocation and organization. This is the offering of actual service processes in meeting the expectations of consumers in the market. Service allocation helps the planning and retention of customer interactions in the CRM system. Secondly, there is the salesforce automation in accordance to ensuring the consumers are offered and access the necessary quality in sales processes(Chen & Popovich, 2003). The CRM offers the salesforce an opportunity to effectively record, interact and create the necessary feedback on salesforce processes. Finally, there is the management of the processes in service allocation, operations, and the core organization’s customer management expectations.

Organization will implement the components

An organization can effectively implement the necessary elements of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM). The implementation of the customer service allocation and management can be central in the recording and collection of the necessary consumer data. The collection of these information is essential in planning on the service allocation and delivery based on company functions and processes (Chen & Popovich, 2003). Secondly, the sales force can use the automation as a logical solution to handling any consumer processing and marketing to increase is retention of its consumers in the market. It is also important to fully develop a logical solution towards managing and increasing the campaign for management of the company’s processes while improving the allocation of data and information.

Critical pieces of customer information needed from your key market segment

There is the need for determining the necessary market trends and consumer expectations in the market. This trends will help in determining consumer satisfaction based on the company’s processed and business functions. It is important to fully understand the process of meeting the demands of consumers in allocation of services (Kumar, 2010). It is also important to collect data such as frequency of service demands and consumer preferences. Creating the common platform will enable and increase the allocation of data while planning to meet and increase resources such as meeting their expectations and improving performance based on consumer feedback. It is also important and essential to fully increase, reduce and conserve the market conditions.

Why do you need to collect this specific data?

The specific consumer data will be an essential pool of understanding on the trends on the market and this will help an organization to fully develop strategies to improve the allocation, planning and creative allocation of their strategies and business objectives. Consumer data can help an organization to focus on the necessary strategies to increase their consumer performance in value and satisfaction. For instance, airline service industries focus on consumer feedback data on increasing and improving their service quality and allocation(Kumar, 2010). It is also important to help in meeting the demands and operational allocations to improve operational effectiveness. Sometimes, the consumer feedback can be the right platform for measuring organizational performance.

Five survey questions that might be used to evaluate the segment’s experience with your organization

The application of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can be a vital resource for an airline service industry. The allocation of consumer resources helps in meeting the value, satisfaction and how quality assurance can be assured in the service industry. For instance, in offering the necessary services an airline industry such as United Airlines may focus on using the necessary consumer survey as a way of improving their service allocation (Kumar, 2010). This can be helpful through the survey questions:

· How can you rate the customer service allocations by the company?

· If you were to require different services what areas of customer relationship management could you like to see change?

· Is the human resource offering sufficient services to meet your expectations?

· In the long-term service delivery, what could you like the company to change in service delivery?

· Does to team offer services for both value and satisfaction?

Why do you need to know this information?

A service delivery company will use the information above to effective align is human resources. The human resources are central for meeting the consumer expectations and allocation of duties for an organization. It is also important and critical to help in meeting the demands, allocations and how to effectively improve, increase and help in service delivery (Zouaoui, Triki, & Ferchichi, 2016). This is the important aspects in which an organization can effectively increase and develop the resources such as planning and effectively integrating social platforms. As a result, the allocation of resources into the processes can effectively improve the retention of service and consumers in the long-term running of the service.

Customer data will be collected

Customer data can effectively be collected through planning and meeting the expectations of consumers. For instance, the use of focus groups can help in the identification, planning and creating resources to meet the data collection through surveying and focus groups. Data can be collected in form of questionnaires and feedback forms offered after service delivery. Online forums can also be used to collect the necessary information from consumers.

References

Buehrer, R. E., Senecal, S., & Pullins, E. B. (2005). Sales force technology usage—reasons, barriers, and support: An exploratory investigation. Industrial Marketing Management34(4), 389-398.

Chen, I. J., & Popovich, K. (2003). Understanding customer relationship management (CRM) People, process and technology. Business process management journal9(5), 672-688.

Kumar, V. (2010). Customer relationship management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Zouaoui, F., Triki, A., & Ferchichi, A. (2016). CRM Implementation Process: Application of the Strategic Alignment Model. International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management5(3), 142-152.