APA CRM Subject: Accounting
Select an organization that you have a direct experience with either as an employee or a customer. Using Table 4.2 as your guide, identify what you think are the advantages and disadvantages relative to CRM effectiveness based on its size and organizational structure.
Table 4.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of an Organization’s Size | |
Advantages | Disadvantages |
More financial resources or easier access to those resources | Many are functionally structured with silos |
Economies of scale with respect to technology and human resources | Increased complexity in training and implementing CRM |
Potentially deeper levels of CRM expertise or easier access to expertise | Customer and prospect data may proliferate without thoughts to a single view of the customer |
Readily available technology and CRM consultative suppliers | Difficulty in creating a single, accurate view of the customer |
Appropriate funding dollars generated from high-margin customer base | Difficulty in consolidating customer data and transferring it into a single, accurate view of the customer |
Large amount of customer and prospect information | Increased likelihood that one part of the organization might use one customer approach, while another part uses a different approach |
Difficulty integrating new technology into existing technical infrastructure without major impacts to other parts of the business | |
Complexity of implementing culture change requirements on a large scale | |
Increased complexity of implementation and ongoing maintenance and support of CRM business and technical initiatives | |
Difficulty in coordinating multiple value chain partners |
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