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Summary of Reports


 Achiever Software

 JI Group

 Onyx Software

 QAS

 Sage (UK) Ltd, CRM Solutions

 TeleWare



Management Briefings



 Market Overview | Part 2 | Part 3

 Implementation Issues: Danny Thomas of The Thomas Bamber Partnership | Part 2

 Call Resolution: Dimension Data’s Mike Cleugh | Part 2

 Marketing Issues: Bill Blundon of Extraprise | Part 2

 CRM in Government: Wendy Hewson | Part 2 | Part 3

 Management Issues: Philip Everest of Mantix | Part 2

 Case Study: The Carphone Warehouse | Part 2

 Service Management: Steve Downton | Part 2

 CRM Strategy: Keith Bedingham of Verax | Part 2

 Case Study: TD Waterhouse

 Expert Opinion: Rob Brickle of Bsquared Consulting

Issue Summary

CRM can fail if implemented in isolation from the organisational culture – and if the customers’ views aren’t measured, says Keith Bedingham of Verax.

Culture clash - Part 1 | Part 2

CRM solutions on their own are unlikely to optimise customer management initiatives – which equates to them failing to a greater or lesser degree. They therefore join the long list of IT (and other) projects where the failure rate – due to either being over-budget, not completed on time or to full effectiveness – is 70% or more.

While many other mis-managed IT implementations can be ironed out over time with little negative effect on the organisation, the same cannot be said of CRM projects. Once customers have been turned off an organisation, it can be hard or costly to pull them back and recover from the bad publicity.

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