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Performance Monitor completed a major market study of CRM systems integration projects. 21% of clients report that the project fell short of their overall expectations for goal attainment. That is a pretty high failure rate. You can see from the table below how often CRM projects fail at producing expected benefits in the following areas...
| Goals | Falling Short of Expectations |
| Cost reductions for IT | 19% |
| Cost reductions for business | 19% |
| Revenue growth | 16% |
| Drive increased profitability | 15% |
| Enhance customer satisfaction | 14% |
| Drive overall business strategy | 14% |
| Enhanced executive reporting | 12% |
| Consolidate or replace legacy systems | 12% |
Over-engineering of solutions is one of the drivers for failing to produce cost reductions, according to the survey results.
Lack of agility has the greatest impact on an organization's ability to grow revenues.
I'll wait for comments before posting any more.
Paul
(Jesus H.) how about examples of companies using search marketing or text mining to capture conversations within blogs, social networks, etc... I know that SAS & SPSS have solutions to do just that and there other Word-of-Mouth monitoring applications that are trying to measure Web 2.0 metrics...
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