Excellent products are seen by customers as a basic requirement, but not as a differentiating factor. The development of intelligent and future-oriented customer management and an appealing customer experience therefore play a decisive role for all companies in a buyer's market.
Developing a suitable digitalization strategy for a company and its environment requires significant changes. It therefore makes sense to first consider the desired goals and the expected added value of digitalization in customer management.
Usually, companies pursue two strategic directions: increasing earnings or sales on the one hand and optimizing process efficiency and cost savings on the other. When defining the goals for customer relationship and customer experience management software, management and employees are often guided by the digitalization of the current status of customer management. A CRM consultant can help here to define the requirements for the CRM system and implement the appropriate IT infrastructure.
However, the question of digital transformation goes beyond these aspects: what kind of customer relationships will the company build in the future and how can it offer its customers the greatest benefit in the future? Interaction with customers in the future is difficult to predict as new technologies and gadgets are constantly being developed. Therefore, customer-centric organizations need to be agile and flexible to adapt to change. The traditional change processes based on training and adjustments from as-is to to-be processes are no longer sufficient when introducing digitalized customer management.
The organization, including employees and software, must therefore be able to react to external changes in an agile manner. In concrete terms, this means
A successful digital transformation requires a flexible and scalable architecture that effectively supports the marketing and sales strategy.
Our experienced consultants will be happy to assist you in selecting and implementing the right customer management system landscape to meet your requirements.
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About the author:
Frank Lauterhahn
Managing Partner
Frank Lauterhahn is an experienced CRM consultant who helps companies of all sizes and from all industries to develop effective CRM strategies and benefit from CRM software in the long term.
With a holistic approach, he supports his customers from the definition of objectives to business analysis and implementation.
As an independent consultant with extensive market knowledge and negotiation skills, he ensures the selection of the most suitable software solution and a smooth implementation.
Thanks to his many years of experience as a project manager in CRM technology implementation, he ensures that the project runs smoothly.
With expertise in various project methods and consulting services for the digitalization of customer management, he supports companies that are ready to exploit their full potential.