Customer relationship management applications have been around for years. But as this opinion piece by Christopher Bucholtz argues, CRM is really a way of serving customers enabled by technology, not a technology itself. But CRM has become a bit of jargon.
Which brings him to ‘customer engagement’, which he says will be the next hot buzzword in new products. Why care?
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Because customer engagement is the reason organizations have customer relationship management applications, he argues. But he fears ‘customer engagement’ will be redefined to suit software vendors.
It’s a provocative argument. Read it, see if you agree and let us know what you think.
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