Serving
customers well. This platitudinous
business basic sounds easy in concept,
but it remains elusive for a surprising
number of companies. Many have tried
to improve their customer service,
and software vendors and consultants
have been all-too-quick to oblige.
Still, you know how this movie ends:
clients are left with a poorly-implemented
system that is only partially used,
and falls way short of the promised
return.
Thirdware helps clients rewrite
this unhappy ending by staying
focused on the business value
throughout the project. Before
recommending any future CRM investments,
we demand immediate, tangible
benefits like:
The ability to up-sell or cross-sell
products and services at a higher
margin,
Increased operational efficiency
at all customer touch-points,
and
The ability to easily mine for
strategic nuggets from all customer
data
collected.
We then use a Value Realization
Model to tie every single process
and every software configuration
back to a specific business objective.
This way, our clients actually
realize the intended value from
the project, and in turn reap
the benefits of happy customers
and a happy project ending.