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Customer Experience Management | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I was recently asked the following question: “What is the difference between CRM and CEM, or is there any difference between the two?&# In a previous post I addressed the practice of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in fairly great detail. As most of you know I am a huge fan of well conceived CRM initiatives.

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It’s 10 AM. Do You Know What Your Sales Reps Are Doing?

Harvard Business Review

Yet much of the data from sources such as CRM reporting tools and time studies is self-reported, and thus inherently flawed. By seeing exactly where and how people spend their time — rather than relying on recollections, anecdotes, or assumptions — executives have a solid basis for taking actions that will raise productivity.

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Who Owns Your Customer Relationships: Your Salespeople or Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

Your R&D group develops a unique new product. Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in. A sales model that pays salespeople almost entirely on commission and gives them exclusive "ownership" of customers often works for a while for products in unsaturated markets. Manufacturing produces it.

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