CRM & TQM: by Nagesh S. Yenpreddiwar Y.Shireesha Victor Basu Roy
CRM & TQM: by Nagesh S. Yenpreddiwar Y.Shireesha Victor Basu Roy
CRM & TQM: by Nagesh S. Yenpreddiwar Y.Shireesha Victor Basu Roy
By
Nagesh S. Yenpreddiwar
Y.Shireesha
Victor Basu Roy
What is CRM?
An integrated approach to identifying, acquiring and
maintaining customers. siebel.com
CRM is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented
strategy for managing a company’s interactions with
customers, clients and sales prospects.
It involves using technology to organize, automate, and
synchronize business processes—principally sales
activities, but also those for marketing, customer service,
and technical support.
Goals of CRM..
The overall goals are to find, attract, and win new clients,
nurture and retain those the company already has, entice
former clients back into the fold, and reduce the costs of
marketing and client service.
What it does...
Builds a database that describes the customers and the
Vizag Steel is the best example for the application of TQM,as its
customer complaint rates have gone down from 0.27 to 0.13 (of total
sales) & the net sales increase has gone up to 3 times which is due to
the application of TQM methods.
RELATIONSHIP-CRM & MARKETING
APPROACH
CRM basically decreases the pressure of the marketing section of a company
by maintenance of the customer database on a person to person basis in an
orderly format.
Based on the CRM models, agents understand the value of the customer for
the company and customize market offerings, services and programs
accordingly.
It also reduces the cost of marketing as the target customer database
can easily be accessed by the marketing agents of the company.
RELATIONSHIP-CRM & MARKETING
APPROACH
A proactive or an accountable marketing strategies can definitely bring in more
customer base for the company while keeping the present customer-base satisfied.
This can help in building up more strategic measures by the company to bring
advancement in its CRM methods.
Harrah's Entertainment Inc., in Las Vegas, boosted its market share by six
percentage points and increased net income by 12.4 percent, even during the
difficult post-9/11 market in 2002 by applying the CRM model which helped the
casino to target the highly specific customer segments.
Conclusion