CRM STRATEGY
Decide what the CRM is for, before deciding what it does
A strategy is a set of choices about what you won’t do. We help you make those choices explicit, sequenced and measurable.
“We need a better CRM” is a symptom. Underneath it is usually a specific business problem: forecast accuracy, cost to serve, cross-sell that never happens, or a customer experience that fragments at handover.
CRM strategy work names that problem, sets a target you can measure, and decides which capabilities to build in what order. It also defines who runs the platform afterwards — the operating model — because most roadmaps fail at ownership rather than at technology.
What you get
- A named business outcome with a baseline and a target, agreed by the people accountable for it.
- Capability roadmap sequenced by value and dependency, not by which team shouted loudest.
- Operating model: who prioritises, who builds, who approves, who supports.
- Data strategy that specifies the few fields that must be right rather than aspiring to perfect data.
- Adoption plan with named champions and a change narrative for each affected role.
- Investment profile across licences, delivery and run.
Features
Outcome definition and baselining · Capability model · Roadmap and sequencing · Operating model and RACI · Data governance minimum viable set · Adoption and change plan · Licence and cost modelling · KPI framework and reporting design · Executive alignment sessions
How we run it
01 Outcome and baseline · 02 Capability assessment · 03 Roadmap and sequencing · 04 Operating model design · 05 Investment and KPI model · 06 Executive alignment and sign-off
What you receive
Outcome and KPI definition · Capability heat map · Sequenced roadmap · Operating model and RACI · Data governance minimum set · Adoption plan · Investment model · Executive summary deck
Common questions
We already have a roadmap. Can you pressure-test it?
Yes — a two-week review against outcomes, dependencies and capacity is a common engagement.
Who should be involved?
Whoever owns the outcome, whoever owns the budget, and two or three people who do the work daily. Strategy built without the last group doesn’t survive contact.
Does strategy work require a platform decision?
No. Roughly a third of the time the recommendation is to fix process and ownership before changing anything technical.
Start here
Tell us what your CRM is getting wrong
Thirty minutes with a consultant, not a salesperson. You’ll leave the call with at least one thing you can fix yourself — whether or not you hire us.
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