Jakki Geiger
Mind the Gap: How Sales Operations Can Overcome Five Customer Information Gaps in Salesforce
Lockton is the world’s largest private insurance broker. Their goal is to achieve 95% client retention. The company, which operates in 60 countries, successfully adopted Salesforce to empower 4,450 associates to continually improve cross-sell and up-sell to existing clients.
To succeed, the director of operations at Lockton knew that the associates need to know who their customers and prospects are and which products and services they already have. When he investigated, he found several customer information gaps in Salesforce.
Below are five customer information gaps in Salesforce CRM that can impact sales:
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Gap #1: Which customer record can I trust?
Before reaching out to a customer (let’s use fictitious client Mark Niles), the sales rep needs to access Mark’s contact information in Salesforce. Chances are Mark Niles’ customer information is spread across multiple duplicate lead, account and opportunity records with inaccuracies, inconsistencies and incomplete information. For example, potentially four records exist in Salesforce for one customer 1) Mark Niles 2) Marc Niles 3) M. Niles 4) Mark. The customer information gap becomes worse when a company has multiple Salesforce orgs. Sales dilemma: Which Salesforce customer record can I trust and update?
Gap#2: Which products and services does my customer already have?
Before a sales rep can identify which product or service to offer Mark Niles, she needs to know which ones Mark already has and if he has any outstanding issues. Chances are Mark Niles’ product information is stored in enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle or JD Edwards ERP, customer support systems and maybe cloud applications such as NetSuite and Eloqua that are not integrated with Salesforce. Sales dilemma: Why can’t I access all relevant customer information from my Salesforce customer record?
Gap #3: What is impacting my customer right now?
Sales reps want to be up-to-date before reaching out to customers. They may need to go outside of Salesforce to get information such as credit scores and news announcements that may impact the timing of customer contact and the conversation. Sales dilemma: Why can’t relevant third-party data be included in my Salesforce customer record? (more…)
Queensland Police Service Case Study: Use Your Bad Data To Build A Compelling Data Quality Business Case
Some might think that building a data quality business case is difficult and complicated – but it doesn’t have to be.
Graeme Campbell, former manager of the client services group at Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia
At InformaticaWorld, I had the pleasure of meeting Graeme Campbell, ex manager of the client services group at Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia, where he delivered a compelling presentation titled, Queensland Police Drive Out Crime with Informatica. My key takeaway: build a simple, business-focused and results-oriented business case that inspires action. (more…)
Five Examples Of How Master Data Management (MDM) Helps Integrate Social Media Data Into Your Business
Are you trying to figure out how to integrate social media data into your business?
A recent poll, taken during a webinar on The Power of Social & Mobile Data, revealed almost 50% of respondents are trying to integrate social media data into their business. Half indicated that the Marketing executive was most interested. For almost 20 percent it’s the Product Development or Merchandising executive. (more…)
Top 10 Similarities Shared By Master Data Management (MDM) Customers
What do our master data management(MDM) customers have in common? Regardless of industry, use case, region, or the type of information they are mastering, I’ve identified 10 key factors they have in common.
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1) Company size is $500M+
2) Experiencing rapid company growth, likely due to mergers and acquisitions (more…)
30 MDM Customer Use Cases (Master Data Management in Action)
Master Data Management (MDM) has been used by companies for more than eight years to address the challenge of fragmented and inconsistent data across systems. Over the years we’ve compiled quite a cadre of uses cases across industries and strategic initiatives. I thought this outline of the 30 most common MDM initiatives may be of interest to those of you who are just getting started on your MDM journey. (more…)
New Aberdeen Survey Confirms MDM’s Value For Customer Centricity
Some companies are achieving high customer satisfaction, increasing sales revenue, and reducing business and IT costs related to customer data. They’re improving internal productivity for sales, marketing and customer service while minimizing customer churn.
But other companies are not. They suffer high customer churn, poor productivity, and sluggish sales. When it comes to customer centricity, what differentiates best-in-class performers from the laggards? (more…)
With MDM, Customer Centricity Also Helps With Customer Privacy Compliance
Organizations considering master data management (MDM) to support customer centricity often focus on how MDM can help them attract and retain customers and drive revenue through a complete customer view. They also assess the productivity gains of sparing sales and service teams from hunting for customer data in disparate applications.
It’s important to consider another effect that MDM can have on your organization—enabling compliance with current and future consumer privacy regulations. (more…)
Building An Effective Business Case For MDM
If you work in IT, you’re aware of the many problems and challenges that bad data can pose for your organization. You know that master data management (MDM) and data quality could address a lot of those issues and give business users the timely and trusted data they need to operate effectively.
Your IT team can map out a plan to implement MDM to support a number of business processes and operations. Most commonly we see three major types of MDM business cases: (more…)
Solving Customer Data Problems With MDM–Find Out How At The Customer Data Forum
Have you ever received an offer from a company for a product you already own? How about two identical offers for the same product… or even three offers? It’s not uncommon. With all the great applications for campaign management and customer relationship management (CRM) that companies have implemented, how do these costly mistakes keep happening? (more…)
MDM:Why Attend The Customer Data Forum?
You will learn how business and IT can collaborate to improve customer acquisition and retention, which I bet is one of your company’s top three business imperatives.
Your marketers, salespeople and customer service reps may be brilliant. They may have stellar strategies on how to better meet customer needs and create an outstanding customer experience—one that exceeds the experience your competitors are providing. But without access to the complete customer data they need, they are being held back from achieving their revenue and profit potential. (more…)
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