How Australian Community Care Providers Can Best Use CRM Strategy and Processes
Customer Relationship Management is not only about technology. Applying CRM principles to the public sector is about enabling vision, strategy, and process change – it is using client centric principles to redefine and transform the delivery of government services to constituents. CRM can assist government in realising client centric efficiencies, increasing satisfaction, and building a more effective multi-channel service delivery model.
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“Service delivery is measured as the method and sequence in which the service operating systems work to create the service experience and outcome (Bettencourt & Gwinner, 1996).
CRM is a business philosophy based on upon individual client and customised products and services supported by open lines of communication and feedback from the participating firms that mutually benefit both buying and selling organisations.
The buying and selling firms enter into a “learning relationship”, with the client being willing to collaborate with the seller and grow as a loyal customer. In return the seller works to maximise the value of the relationship for the client’s benefit.
Client relationship management (CRM) is a whole process by which relations with customers are built and maintained. Creating a successful CRM program requires understanding common failures in CRM Strategy and Processes and knowing how to get the implementation right
In short, CRM provides selling organisations with the platform to obtain a competitive advantage by embracing client needs and building value-driven long-term relationships. You control the evolution of CRM in line with customer needs, using the company’s business processes and customer data, without having to rely on upgrades or services from a vendor.
CRM Deployment Options – Cloud, Premise and Managed
Cloud gives you the ability to rapidly scale when there is peak load and can be used to quickly expand into new regions with limited upfront investment. On-premise would require significant infrastructure investment that then spends time under-utilised.
- On premise installed on your company’s own servers
- Cloud based delivered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model
- On-premise hosted the software is on your site but managed by other party
What Australian Community Care Organisations understand as CRM
Client Interaction Management (provides a holistic view of client) with integration to “back-end” systems that provide specific services required to manage the customer and Embracement of all channels.
Coordination of Front Office, Back Office and other Client Interfaces.
No focus on getting engagement – just delivery
- Marketing
- Branding
- Comparing to Commercial – Clients less tolerant
- Clients know what is possible with ICT
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Why Australian Community Care Organisations Must Adopt CRM Strategy & Processes
CRM is an IT enhanced value process, which identifies, develops,integrates and focuses the various competencies of the firm to the ‘voice’ of the customer in order to deliver long-term superior customer value, at a profit to well identified existing and potential customers.
- Australian Community Care Organisations groups today are struggling to do more with less
- The need for new programs and services continues to grow
- Budgets have tightened in the wake of declining endowments, reduced government, corporate and foundation funding
- Improve the data on clients and services
- Organisations are finding it tougher to sustain clients, fundraising and other forms of constituent support as traditional marketing models are not working as well
- Must add and integrate additional customer information and communication channels to respond to demand
- The “New Consumer” / “Buyer-Centric” market demands it.
CRM Project Design, Planning Process and CRM Client Strategy
Client Service challenges can be addressed through a holistic client relationship management (CRM) Strategy and Processes approach. You might ask, why is CRM connected with client service. CRM is a strategy that connects your clients, employees, and partners in an end-to-end process that can help you treat clients based on their value to your business in a consistent manner to meet your business objectives. This end-to-end process revolves around the client lifecycle, reach, interest, acquisition, service, retention and potentially reacquisition. You can choose to address customer service part of the strategy and add other parts such as sales and marketing later.
The idea of CRM is that it helps businesses use technology and human resources to gain insight into the behaviour of clients and the value of those clients. Your Goal setting starts with an effective CRM strategy, a business can increase revenues by:
The CRM strategy helps your employees analyse client information and get to know your clients better. With knowledge of your clients you can serve them better. It also facilitates collaborating both internally and externally. Overall, a winning CRM strategy would create a client-centric culture in your organisation.
There are three parts of application architecture of CRM:
CRM value plan
Corporate business objectives;
Information:
• Measure business performance
• Market share, retention rates, profitability, segment ownership
Customer-focused approaches in support of business goals;
Information:
• Analyse, segment and target Value, propensity, risk, products, trends
Specific business actions required to implement each strategy;
Information:
• Initiate action (e.g., trigger events)
• Incentives and outcomes
Establish Information Processes That Support the Strategic Plan
Strategy Development Process
Value
Creation
Process
Multi-Channel
Integration
Process
Performance Assessment Process
Information Management Process
- Strategy Development
- Assessment of business strategy
- Business strategy guides development of customer strategy
Translates business and client strategies into specific value propositions
- Client benefit from priority, tiered services, loyalty rewards, and customisation
- Benefits from reduced client acquisition and retention costs
- Serve customers well across many potential interfaces
- Offer a unified interface that delivers customisation and personalisation
- Is CRM system creating value for key stakeholders?
- Are marketing and service standard objectives being achieved?
- Is CRM system meeting performance standards?
- Collect customer information from all channels
- Integrate it with other relevant information
- Make useful information available to the frontline
- Create and manage data repository, IT systems, analytical tools, specific application packages
Example CRM Process Map Graphic
Data collection
Data analysis
Sales force automation
Common Failures in CRM Implementation
Service firms often equate installing CRM systems with having a customer relationship strategy Challenge of getting it right with wide-ranging scope of CRM
Common reasons for failures
- Viewing CRM as a technology initiative
- Lack of customer focus
- Insufficient appreciation of customer lifetime value (CLV)
- Inadequate support from top management
- Failure to reengineer business processes
- Underestimating the challenges in date integration
Data is ignored
At its core, CRM is about data – customers, products, inventory…
- Huge amounts of data must be in the right place in the right format
- Must have a detailed understanding of the quality of the data
Must have a detailed understanding of the quality of the data
- how to clean it up
- how to keep it clean
- where to source it
- what third-party data is required
Good data is an imperative for CRM investments to pay off
Must do Action Item:
- Must have a Data Quality Strategy
- Devote one-half of the total time-line of the CRM project to define data elements and data cleansing
Best Way To Build a Big System
– Not to Build It…Let It Evolve
Managing Customer Relationships and Building Loyalty
Customer loyalty as an important driver of profitability for service firms so firms need to
- Assess value of loyal customer
- Narrow gap between actual and potential customer value
To understand the customer-firm relationship, firms should establish a relationship with customers by creating “membership” relationships. Four types of marketing:
- Transactional marketing
- Database marketing
- Interaction marketing
- Network marketing
Australian Community Care Providers meet Datanova’s FlowLogic a cloud based
Data Management Solution for Australian Community Care Providers
Datanova would be proud to be the provider of the CRM technology that helps you to drive your business. We can provide a powerful engine FlowLogic to produce a work environment for your clients community, FlowLogic can adapt easily to your specific business needs, and runs on a fast, flexible, and affordable cloud platform, compliant with Government requirements to increase business agility. Achieve more, faster, and with less resources. FlowLogic makes your business Paperless – Efficient – Compliant.
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A good CRM is fundamental to our success. For some, it will require a new way of thinking: Enterprise Thinking.
Datanova has designed and created an extremely flexible product from the ground up. A cloud based solution that works with you, communicating with the power of collaboration. Every unique process within your business can be supported by FlowLogic’s powerful workflow engine. FlowLogic also gives you powerful reporting and analytics that ensure that you can measure the efficiency and productivity of all of your clients interactions whilst ensuring Government compliance.
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