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Transcript of The CRM Textbook: customer relationship training Terry James © 2006 Knowledge Management (KM)
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Tacit Knowledge Knowledge management is the capturing
and active management of intellectual assets You can have capital assets, and intellectual
assets An asset is a process or object of value
Tacit knowledge is not written down It is undocumented expertise in your people
For CRM, who knows the client well, what makes the client buy from you, what do they want next?
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Catalog and directory Product catalog that lists all the products
and information on products Directory that lists all the employees,
name, phone number, perhaps department Extend the directory, to skills, experience,
authority to spend, etc. Extend the directory to contain CRM data:
knowledge of clients, industries, regions,… Extend the directory to relationships and roles
between employees, teams, and clients.
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Ontology of CRM Thesaurus of CRM terms
Equivalent terms, hierarchical, associative, synonyms, homonyms,..
Deepen your understanding of client ideas, concepts, relationship of ideas and concepts
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Continuous Improvement This is not just a manufacturing idea Take your client relationships and constantly
improve KM is about finding what you need to know KM is about creating a learning organization In a world that changes quickly, KM is critical. Do you know your knowledge gaps? Do you have an improvement plan?
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Theory of constraints Do you know your weakest point? An easy way to find the weak link is to speed
up your process and see what breaks first. Can your old shipping system keep up to new
orders from the Internet, or does billing get crash first?
Once you detect a flaw, fix it, then speed up again.
The constraint of time (speed) can equally be applied to constraints of space, cost, quality, or other key components of a business. Can you ship globally, for less than a competitor?
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Workflow This concept is the process flow for
activities in your business Fill in screen 1, then go to screen 2 for
approval, then fax a form, then send an email, and follow-up with screen 9 to complete the job.
Workflow will guide you through each step, it will monitor steps, tell you where a form is waiting, missing, how long it has been stuck?
Workflow can automate filling in standard items such as current date or department number, and detect bottlenecks or wasted time.
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KM and workflow What is the knowledge velocity of your
firm? How fast does a new standard or client order
flow across the company? Where is the choking point or constraint? Where is the quality hotspot? Why?
Workflow combined with KM can improve knowledge velocity Where do client orders slowdown? Where in your process are your largest quality
issues on client data? Who, when, why?
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Learning organization We live in a knowledge economy We are mostly knowledge workers, paid for skills
and know-how than manual labor Closed loop marketing is where you take results
of one campaign, learn from it, and use that knowledge in the next campaign.
Single loop learning is finding a problem and fixing it.
Double loop learning is learning how to improve your process of learning from single loop learning.
Single loop – lost client do to late shipping Double loop – we always ship late on quarter end, we
never anticipate or learn from peak order patterns
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Patterns What are the patterns of behavior?
Positive patterns, destructive patterns Client patterns?
Retired people like product X and Y together, parents buy T and within a month buy product Z.
Business patterns? Configuration, process, learning, …
Solve causes, not symptoms A cure for a spot is helpful, but cure the measles and
you stop getting any more spots What is the new client pattern?
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Patents Patents are needed to protect your
inventions, but publishing patents makes the information available to competitors
Patents provide some protection against competition (a type of monopoly)
Patents can be licensed, and the license generates fees. Do you know anything unique, invent any
process, that you can patent and license? You can now patent processes
Do you have proprietary knowledge, do you have intellectual capital?
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Competitive Intelligence You must know what your
competitors are doing? It is naïve to not watch your
competitors When they change direction, you may
need to change your plans or die. Are the competitors moving into
new territories, lowering prices, hiring people (your people?), patenting new products?
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How can you tell if your competitor is hiring more people at the factory? Drive around the parking lot and count cars
How can you tell if your competitor is making more shipments every month? Measure the wear on the railway line or floor
How can you tell if the competitor is opening a new sales office? Check advertisement postings in the
newspaper How can you tell if the competitor will
launch a new product? Look at what skills are advertised for on
www.monster.ca
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Portals You can create websites that aggregate
information You may offer connections to bidding systems
or auctions You may offer easy connection to competitors,
knowing the ease of use will attract more clients to your own site.
You can generate transaction fees from any advertising or purchases made from your portal.
Bringing together clients, products, or industries where there is diverse and fractured information is an excellent method to turn intellectual capital into cash.
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ABC Costing What is the biggest cost you don’t know about? What is your most expensive item of ignorance
today? We all have blind spots, and so are blind to the costs of
that ignorance. One way to uncover the cost of hidden
information is activity based costing (ABC) If you track and internally cost every process
and item, you can start to see the hidden costs. With knowledge comes power -when you see the
issue, you can work on it. What is the cost of your tacit knowledge when it
leaves your firm?
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ABC Example Each department solves security in their
own way. They never account for work on security Each department simply shows the cost
of the project, with items like security hidden in with overall project costs.
So the duplication of this item continues across departments repeatedly.
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Scripting There are an infinity of potential problems and
an infinity of fixes. If you wish to avoid solving the same problems
over and over, then log the best solutions. Give people the information about what has
been solved before, make it easy to look up an error, and find an answer.
A solution script provides a template to answer a problem well, with consistency, and quality.
Now I see why they did it that strange way! Keep a lessons learned document from any
painful error
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Drowning in information We have lots of information, but can
never find the one thing we need to know. Lots of data, little information, and less
knowledge Imagine if your search for information
provided you with the steps that the last person used when looking for the same answer?
Imagine if searches spanned departments, and even collaborative organizations, consortium?
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Search We can greatly increase our knowledge
just by staring with search technology? Does your company have a good search
engine for internal documents? Do you use keywords to make finding
documents easier of others? Do you keep important documents on
your portable and C: drive where no-one can find them?
Do you have incentives to promote sharing knowledge?
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Why would employees not share information?
What would you do? Not paid to train other people Too busy to help right now Last time you got too many phone calls
asking how to use the document you provided
No rewards for helping new people Don’t know how to do it yourself I am competing with Joe. If I help him, they
might fire me instead of Joe
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Why would employees share
Best reason is culture I share because everyone shares with
me Nice environment here, everyone helps
each other I can’t say no to Joe because Joe helped
me yesterday This kind of environment is called
teamwork and is very productive