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Too Many Executives Are Missing the Most Important Part of CRM

Harvard Business Review

Whether you’re a corporation, a nonprofit or a government agency, chances are that your approach to customer relationships at a system-wide level begins and ends with CRM (customer relationship management) software — yet its implementation rarely does much to foster real relationships. It’s a result of misguided strategy.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

that every company is used to capturing, but also unstructured data (data scraped from the Internet and social media channels that may come in a wide variety of formats, from video to voice). Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Unstructured data is very different. All rights reserved.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, brand and online-shopping websites, social media, and vehicle connectivity, businesses have a unique opportunity to use technology to revolutionize the customer experience and to incorporate the voice of the customer into product development. But where and how do you start?

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Old way or new way? Only one way works. My way.

Strategy Driven

Don’t forget their managers who force them to use an uncomfortable ‘system,’ a non-sales helpful CRM, and hold their salespeople accountable for their actions and numbers. DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN A PRISTINE REPUTATION. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Dead and over. What killed it?

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Getting Back to Growth

Harvard Business Review

I've even seen situations where a company's language gets in the way, such as defining an "organic growth opportunity" not in terms of ends but of means (more sales people, a new CRM system, or a new product introduction, for example). I know of one media company that put a giant gong in its sales department. Celebrate it.

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Can UX Save Enterprise IT?

Harvard Business Review

More than the amount of data itself, the unstructured data from the Web and sensors (in our environment) is a much more salient feature of what is being called Big Data," according to Thomas Davenport , visiting professor of Data Analytics at Harvard and author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning.