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CRM lacks leadership. (E-Commerce).


Operations and IT departments have'hi-jacked' the implementation of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization.  initiatives within many companies. As a result, the customer today is often like an orphan orphan: see adoption; foundling hospital; guardian and ward.


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 of Amethyst, "yet for many, CRM has signally failed to deliver the anticipated benefits. We therefore wanted to undertake a more in- depth look at why the promise remains unfulfilled in the drive for competitive advantage.

The resulting joint Amethyst/Magic Software qualitative survey of leading marketing directors, `CRM Without the Smoke and Mirrors'--undertaken by specialist consultancy, The Value Engineers--finds that much of today's CRM development is seen as irrelevant to the needs of business and of limited value as a strategic aid to brand differentiation.

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Title Annotation:Amethyst Group survey
Publication:Database and Network Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2002
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