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CRM March 1, 2005 Eric Krell |
Trotting Out CRM Champions Month 9: Forget Smarty Jones--a new champion is inspiring the Churchill Downs crowd. Recognition programs offset the tedium of data integration work.  |
CRM December 13, 2004 Eric Krell |
The Race to Drive CRM Adoption Month 7: Churchill Downs' focus shifts to uniquely executing its overarching CRM initiative at each track.  |
CRM June 1, 2005 Eric Krell |
The Race Won, the Payout Begins Month 12: To make good on its year-one deliverables Churchill Downs' CRM team must make believers out of everyone.  |
CRM September 1, 2004 Eric Krell |
The 7 Deadly Bells of CRM The 7 things that can slow or stop a CRM implementation in its tracks.  |
CRM September 17, 2004 Eric Krell |
What Happens When the Big Picture Blurs? Month 4: Focusing too narrowly on one aspect of a CRM initiative may cause you to lose sight of your ultimate goal.  |
CRM October 18, 2004 Eric Krell |
Transforming Data to Results Month 5: Churchill Downs discovers new customer segments that improve its loyalty program.  |
CRM September 2005 Eric Krell |
CRM's 7 Deadly Warning Bells We return to the site of the Kentucky Derby's parent company to examine the seven CRM warning bells and to flesh out year-one lessons that will help other CRM project managers improve their odds of success.  |
CRM January 21, 2005 Eric Krell |
Churchill Downs Bets on Its Brand Month 8: Strategic deal-making marks a new approach to funding CRM.  |
CRM November 15, 2004 Eric Krell |
People Ultimately Create CRM Success Month 6: At the halfway mark of year one of Churchill Downs' enterprisewide CRM initiative, a team of thoroughbreds is moving Churchill Downs closer to a winning finish.  |
CRM April 1, 2005 Eric Krell |
Dirty Data Rears Its Head Month 10: The year-one finish line for Churchill Downs' massive CRM initiative was in sight when the project manager pointed out a problem with bad data.  |
CRM May 2, 2005 Eric Krell |
Keeping the Project Team in Stride Month 11: Dragons, snakes, and oh yeah, here comes the finish line. As Churchill Downs Inc.'s CRM project year-one deadline approached, the project team's focus has grown almost entirely tactical.  |
CRM September 2004 Ginger Conlon |
The 2004 Influential Leaders Spotlighting those people who have had a significant impact on their organization or on the CRM industry in the past year.  |
CRM October 2005 Bailor et al. |
The 2005 CRM Elite, Part 3 Here are two out of six companies that have achieved significant returns on technology investments that have either met or surpassed their expectations: Frontline Educational Products... Churchill Downs...  |
CRM April 2006 Barton Goldenberg |
Executive Support: The Most Important CRM Success Factor For organizations that have succeeded in their CRM initiative, executive support stands out as the single most important ingredient for success. Let's examine why by looking at examples of three levels of executive support.  |
CRM November 2003 Ginger Conlon |
How Do You Measure Success? Let us count the ways: Sales measures success one way, marketing another way, service another, and IT yet another. For this reason the first step of any CRM initiative should be to set mutually agreed-upon goals and metrics.  |
CRM December 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: In 2007 my Company Plans to... Increase its CRM budget: 40%... Maintain its CRM budget: 27%... etc.  |
CRM August 2, 2004 |
Who's Who in CRM In May CRM magazine presented a list of some of the industry's key players. This month we continue that recognition with a look at two executives from Microsoft.  |
CRM April 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Making CRM Pay Off Like any worthwhile endeavor, it takes a great deal of planning and effort to get real results from CRM.  |
CRM January 2005 Barton Goldenberg |
5 Ways to Refocus Your CRM Efforts This year, seize new opportunities for gaining--and keeping--customer loyalty.  |
CRM September 2005 Barton Goldenberg |
'Information at Your Fingertips' These five business drivers will propel real-time CRM over the next decade: The need to be increasingly customer focused... Increased competition... An increased emphasis on better market segmentation... etc.  |
CRM March 3, 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Creating a CRM Culture Companies want their people to use new CRM processes, but what's most important is getting those employees to think differently. If your company does not fully embrace CRM, the initiative will stall or fail.  |
CRM March 2012 Jim Dickie |
Are the CRM Wars Really Over? Existing CRM users would be well advised to test the waters to see if something that would work better for them exists.  |
CRM August 27, 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Required Reading Author Russ Lombardo offers practical advice on gathering information to design and plan the right CRM strategy, getting buy-in, and planning for ROI in "CRM for the Common Man."  |
CRM March 2007 Colin Beasty |
The Enlightened Enterprise As big businesses enter phase 2 (and for some, phase 3) of their varying CRM initiatives, these tips will refine the advance.  |
CRM October 2003 Ginger Conlon |
How Satisfied are You With CRM? That's the question CRM magazine recently asked its readers. More than 330 executives voiced their opinions.  |
CRM December 17, 2015 Dave Nelson |
3 Tips for CRM Investment in the Digital Age With channels, interactions, and data proliferating, CRM strategies and tools are still key to superior customer experience.  |
CRM February 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Can't Get No Dissatisfaction In an exclusive survey conducted, CRM magazine finds that a surprising number of executives are pleased with their CRM system -- and with their results.  |
CFO November 1, 2002 Russ Banham |
Back to the Drawing Board With CRM installations, practice makes perfect.  |
CRM July 2003 Laura Pollard |
Enterprise Schmenterprise Who truly sees the value of enterprise CRM?  |
CRM March 1, 2005 David Myron |
What Is CRM? Defining CRM as merely a technology solution only distorts its purpose and value. It is better to view CRM as a business process.  |
InternetNews January 10, 2007 Michael Hickins |
MSFT Dips Another Toe in SaaS Microsoft is encouraging its partners to familiarize themselves with the next version of Dynamics CRM for a number of reasons.  |
CRM May 2004 Emmy Favilla |
CRM in Action: Inova Tackles Training to Ensure CRM Success Inova Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare system in Northern Virginia, wanted to ensure the success of its CRM system.  |
CRM October 1, 2003 Paul Greenberg |
A Commonwealth of Self-Interest CRM initiatives will succeed only if users see value in using them.  |
CRM April 2015 Barton Goldenberg |
Social CRM in Action Businesses discover the value of social communities.  |
CRM November 2003 Barton Goldenberg |
CRM Is Not a Game of Chance Don't commit to any CRM application until first understanding your CRM needs -- then understand which CRM application best meets them.  |
CRM December 2003 Paul Greenberg |
Creating Realistic Customer Expectations Lessons about escalating customer expectations of CRM software beyond reason were not learned.  |
CRM July 2012 Kelly Liyakasa |
For Social Success, Build a Business Use Case Companies that fail at measuring ROI say it's too hard, too early, or they weren't asked.  |
CRM May 3, 2004 |
Heard and Overheard Quotes from the CRM industry: "Success in CRM is a journey, not a destination"... "In our world CRM stands for Can't Replace Marketing"... etc.  |
CRM March 25, 2011 Jim Davies |
Applying the Eight Building Blocks of CRM to Social Media How to improve the effectiveness and long-term success of social CRM initiatives  |
CRM September 2003 Guglielmo et al. |
The 2003 Market Leaders (Part 2) Which vendors are leading the industry? CRM magazine scrutinized CRM suite vendors and related categories to uncover the top-five leaders in each category: enterprise CRM, mid-market CRM, analytics, contact center outsourcers, and consulting firms.  |
CRM July 1, 2004 |
The Pulse: Does Your CEO Use the CRM Tools Your Company Has in Place? Graph shows that 53% of CEOs don't use CRM tools.  |
CRM March 1, 2004 Ginger Conlon |
CRM Strategy Is Taking Center Stage Organizations are increasingly adopting CRM as a business strategy rather than as simply a technology  |
CIO February 1, 2002 Danielle Dunne |
Beware of the CRM Backlash Jill Dyche contends that CRM projects would work better if companies did a better job defining their specific needs...  |
CRM January 2014 Sarah Sluis |
Risk-Proof Your CRM System Focus on the people and the process, not the technology.  |
CRM July 1, 2004 Ginger Conlon |
CRM: Alive and Kicking Instead of complaining about the confusion with CRM, we should educate people interested in implementing CRM--the strategy--in their companies.  |
CRM December 30, 2011 Shamez S. Dharamsi |
Increase the Power of Your CRM Tools with Outsourcing Delegate 'lower-value' duties for a better ROI.  |
CRM September 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: Is Your Company Using or Planning to Use Open Source CRM? A Reader Poll: We Use an Open Source CRM Solution: 22%... We Are Planning to Implement an Open Source CRM Solution in 2006: 14%... etc.  |
CRM March 2003 Dick Lee |
Don't Blame CRM Managers shouldn't expect success if users haven't been sold on CRM.  |
CRM January 2004 Martin Schneider |
The Hard Sell Selling ice to Alaskans is a breeze compared with selling CRM internally to executives who resist commitment and users who shun change. Although the benefits of CRM may be clear to you, the challenge is to convince everyone else. Here's how.  |
CRM November 3, 2003 |
Insuring CRM Success A recent Aberdeen Group study found that CRM investment is on the rise in the insurance industry.  |