Trends Report

Beyond CRM: Manage Customer Experiences

Adopt An Outside-In Approach To Shift The CRM Mindset

April 29th, 2011
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Paul Hagen
With contributors:
Harley Manning , William Band , Allison Stone , Andrew McInnes

Summary

Well-intentioned customer relationship management (CRM) efforts that focus on internal processes and objectives have largely failed to serve the most important stakeholder: the customer. Customer experience leaders need to drive an outside-in focus into these efforts by defining the desired experience, understanding customers' behaviors and needs, focusing on data rather than systems, and building a customer-centric culture.

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