They say you must walk before you can run. It follows that you should crawl before you walk. In CRM, however, there are a lot of businesses that talk at great length about wanting to run even though they haven’t mastered crawling yet. They battle with the same old problems: adoption issues; technology decisions made before business needs are identified; lack of executive buy-in. If you want to extend the metaphor, CRM-wise, they’re not running, walking or crawling — they’re lying face-down, motionless, on the floor.
Great read Chris.
Unfortunately CRM is identified with technology and Tools however it is beyond Technology, which is just a means to establish, maintain and grow relationships.
CRM is primarily at the disposal of the sales folks,majority of them feel it's an obligation to use the CRM tools rather appreciating it.
Given above situation we might at first feel that Social CRM will make it all the more difficult for the sales people, as it adds one more dimension i.e. Social to the traditional CRM however I feel this new dimension will give a completely different outlook to the sales person, as it will add a more dynamic layer i.e. Social to the CRM, thus making the CRM practice much more effective and usable.
Much of the complaint goes away now about it taking too much time entering information from a phone call on a mobile device. Smart phones, tablets and web browsers like Chrome allow you to tap a microphone icon with one finger and immediately start talking. The speech is immediately converted into text as a call memo. Amazing feedback can be obtained in timely matter.
I read somewhere else that one of the reasons mobile CRM fails in practice is because people dislike entering or managing rich information on their devices. If you end a phone call with a client, for example, it takes a lot of effort to type and attach a summary of the call to the Client's record in your CRM on your phone. It's just not practical, even in tablet form.
If CRM "management" was made more intuitive on mobile, perhaps adoption rates would increase.
I feel you are right about Social CRM; companies do not yet know how to harvest the mounds of information present in these channels. Besides aggregation, we know not what to do with this data. Personally, I still feel most business professionals don't use Social Media for business.
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Are We There Yet? The Long Road to the CRM Revolution
Posted by: Christopher J. Bucholtz April 17, 2014 06:21 PMThey say you must walk before you can run. It follows that you should crawl before you walk. In CRM, however, there are a lot of businesses that talk at great length about wanting to run even though they haven’t mastered crawling yet. They battle with the same old problems: adoption issues; technology decisions made before business needs are identified; lack of executive buy-in. If you want to extend the metaphor, CRM-wise, they’re not running, walking or crawling — they’re lying face-down, motionless, on the floor.
Unfortunately CRM is identified with technology and Tools however it is beyond Technology, which is just a means to establish, maintain and grow relationships.
CRM is primarily at the disposal of the sales folks,majority of them feel it's an obligation to use the CRM tools rather appreciating it.
Given above situation we might at first feel that Social CRM will make it all the more difficult for the sales people, as it adds one more dimension i.e. Social to the traditional CRM however I feel this new dimension will give a completely different outlook to the sales person, as it will add a more dynamic layer i.e. Social to the CRM, thus making the CRM practice much more effective and usable.
Dick Wooden
Saleslogix CRM business partner
If CRM "management" was made more intuitive on mobile, perhaps adoption rates would increase.
I feel you are right about Social CRM; companies do not yet know how to harvest the mounds of information present in these channels. Besides aggregation, we know not what to do with this data. Personally, I still feel most business professionals don't use Social Media for business.