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Let’s talk about Customer Let’s talk about Customer Relationship Management Relationship Management
The experience so far across South Asia, The experience so far across South Asia, South East Asia and PacificSouth East Asia and Pacific
David TwineExecutive Director
Singapore, Australia, Middle East and Europe - 2007
This Session
1. What did we set out to do from a business perspective?
– why we felt the need to embrace a formal CRM approach in the context of challenges we face
2. What business outcomes have we achieved as a result of implementing new systems and processes?
and …. what success (might) look like ?
David Twine, Singapore
Background situation and contextEarly issues and drivers
• Struggling after two years of new exporter program
• High share of ‘difficult’ markets in SEASAP
• Burning-out existing small, loyal customer base
Initially set out to increase:
• Client Attraction – Sought to increase volume of clients we are relevant to (value proposition)– Identify “hooks” to channel clients to market
• Servicing Capacity– If successful, significantly increase our capacity to process and match
clients with customers
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Background situation and contextEarly issues and drivers – cont.
• Develop (client) VPs around the idea that “nothing sells better than a live opportunity and a real deal”
• We didn’t have the right customers to meet supply
• Treated all customers and “relationships” equally
• No formal process of deciding who were our key customers – commercial value vs relationship value
• No way of determining worth or value of customer base
Hence, need for more focus and strategic approach towards customers and market opportunities
1. Faster, more effective, matching of “Supply Push” through expansion of customer base
– positioning to service significant growth in clients
2. Increase “Opportunity Pull” led results across all markets
and … and …
3. Better knowledge of industry and dynamics to deliver:– greater value to clients in a sustainable way– eg: sustainability/migration, brand management, EI$– more effective alignment in client-customer sourcing
1. What did we set out to achieve?Objectives evolved into this …..
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And in the process deliver …..
4. improved conversion rates on opportunities - though better alignment of resources to match Australian capability
5. significantly increased efficiency – i.e. export deals achieved per staff member
6. secure aggregation of market / customer knowledge & information via database of customers
1. What did we set out to achieve?Objectives evolved into this …..
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Why CRM? “Supply Push” perspective
Remember the doubling objective?
CLIENTS
• This year – we have a ‘breather’ with deal target for new exporters:
– 04-05: ~35% increase YoY (was to be 87%!)
– 05-06: ~65% increase YoY
– 06-07: ~72% increase YoY
• BUT, no increase in resources. Implication: Increase efficiency (numbers), Increase effectiveness (conversion)
• Implications for CUSTOMERS? David Twine, Singapore
CUSTOMER relationships – doubling? trebling?
• Two issues:
– Where are they going to come from?
– How are we going to manage them?
• BUT, no increase in resources. Implication: Increase efficiency (no’s), increase effectiveness (conversion)
• Must get better at growing & managing ever increasing Customer base & growing pool of opportunities
• Hence enhanced Customer management – critical
Death ‘n Taxes … sure…. but what about Customers?
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The “Opportunity Pull” perspectivePlenty of ugly ducklings …
• Image problems. Hard to compete with attraction of low-risk (perceived) & relative familiarity of US, UK, NZ markets etc
BUT nothing attracts a client more than a “live deal”, a qualified opportunity
Enhanced Customer management – critical to increase “Opportunity
Pull” - especially ‘difficult’ markets
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Market Opportunities can achieve KPIs The Jakarta Experience (not quite CRM)
Transactions from Market Opportunities
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82% 78%
25%18% 17%
48%56% 53%
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Q3 (Jan-March 03)Q4 (Apr-Jun 03)
Q1 (Jul-Sept 03)Q2 (Oct-Dec 03)
Q3 (Jan-Mar 04)Q4 (Apr-3 June 04)
Market opportunities delivered by Post Other services delivered by Post
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Enhanced Customer ManagementCRM defined
• “ALL CUSTOMERS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL” - not all are of same value, need to be treated differently
• Strategically increasing the frequency, level and quality of engagement with, and understanding of, customers
• Engaging efficiently, commensurate with the value they bring to our clients
CRM – is about understanding our customers, tailoring CRM – is about understanding our customers, tailoring the way we service them in order to increase the the way we service them in order to increase the number of opportunities for Clientsnumber of opportunities for Clients
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What does CRM entail?
Customer Recruitment
• Understand market place
• Identify:
– growth trends, developments
– attractive - segments, industries, companies
– and recruit high value companies for Austrade / Australian clients
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What does CRM entail?
Customer Management• segment customers – by market, industry, BDM, opportunities
• genuine understanding of customer challenges, needs, drivers and opportunities
• identify opportunity / buying potential and tailor value proposition
• Implement call plans. Optimise resources to match opportunities / customer “value”
Once you’ve got them …. retain & grow them
Genuine Customer Growth and LoyaltyDavid Twine, Singapore
Once you’ve got ‘em …. Retaining and growing customers
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Sales and Customer management skill optimisation
Optimisation of resources to match
opportunities
Effective customer and prospect segmentation
Genuine understanding of customers
challenges, needs, drivers and opportunities
Genuine Customer Growth and Loyalty
Tailoring of value Proposition, customer
management processes, and 'value
adds' customer segments
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What business outcomes have we achieved as a result of implementing
new systems and processes?
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• KPIs attributable to Customer strategy: – First Year: 80-100 client conversions (2004)– push-pull balance varies by market – SEASAP
regional target 40% (from opening position of 3-5%)
• Year on Year Growth:– Qualified Customer Base: 30-40% (regional av. but
from small base) – Qualified Market Opportunities: 15-20% – Some markets much higher, but not possible
consistently across all industry segments
CRM – Quantitative OutcomesResults so far – very encouraging…
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• Conversion rates on Market Opportunities between
– now 10-18% (previously 3-5%)
• Buyer visits:
– 2004-05: 25-30 visits from S1/S2 customers
– Increasing high yield events – 15-20 export deals from some events
Underpinning productivity gainsEI outcomes per person
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• more than 5000 customers in database (cf: HKTD)
• enables events tailored to customers and maximize value for clients through targeted customers (eg: BCA)
• aggregation of customer knowledge / intelligence
• security - customer knowledge retained when BDMs leave
• gone are boxes of business cards!
Customer Database - moving from tacit to systemised customer knowledge
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Better understanding of market & market segmentation along industry lines resulting in:
1. Stronger industry team results
2. Growth in client sustainability outcomes
3. With MDSs, much stronger alignment between client and customer sourcing:
= strong/direct correlation between top 10 SEASAP industries and AO client pool industries
= more productive management / deployment of Post resources to match profile / mix of clients in the pipeline in Australia – now ~80% match
= major efficiency gains.
Industry gains - deeper knowledge, and closer onshore / offshore alignment
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• Cultivates stronger sales & marketing / deal-making culture - more acute focus on how we add value to clients and customers
• Provides the process, disciplines and tools for STCs/TCs to manage sales teams; allocate resources and drive behavioral change
• helps stimulate staff and capability “refresh”
• Better forecasting capability and “pipeline management”
• Catalyst for development of new online tools to enabling faster commute of market opportunities to colleagues in Australia (and ultimately clients and allies)
• “The SEASAP Way” - helping build one regional team through consistency and shared purpose
• Not a “project”: ongoing, repeatable, consistent, scaleable. Size doesn’t matter: Suva and Singapore
CRM – other outcomes / benefits
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Keys to CRM success are also an element of the success!Sales Team Leadership
Behaviours & AttitudeBehaviours & Attitude
Prioritisation
Discipline
Time management
Coaching & sustained follow-up
More time with S1 and S2 customers
Apply CRM approach
Avoid distractions / low value activity
Accountability• reporting• performance agreements
Consistency
ConsistencyPredictabilityPredictability
RigourRigour
DisciplineDiscipline
PassionPassionPassionPassionEfficiency of EffortEfficiency of Effort
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CRM Vision What does success look like?
Enabling us to be more efficient and effective, with a fixed resource base, to:
– grow and manage our customer base
– increase quality & quantity of market opportunities
– increase conversion rates
– increase client attraction
Which in turn will position us to treble KPIs in three years and meet and deliver any challenge (not just the doubling objective) put to us by our stakeholders, now or in the future.
Elevated commercial acumen and confidence of team.