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The more you understand your customer the better your business will be. CIOs are now cornerstones of customer understanding and relationships thanks to CRM technology and an increasing amount of customer contact points. Good technology is vital, but successful CRM requires a business focussed strategy and execution.

This zone keeps you posted on the latest CRM business thinking and technology developments to ensure your CRM implementation is a success.

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Web 2.0 and sales process management

Web 2.0 and sales process management

How Web 2.0 systems and applications support management of sales processes

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CRM 2.0: Technology outlook roadmap

CRM 2.0: Technology outlook roadmap

The evolution of demand - The customer 2.0

Exploring the evolution of tools supporting CRM processes and loyalty and the technological outlook. more...


Differentiate your company with complete CRM

Differentiate your company with complete CRM

Focused on productivity and empowerment and leveraging the natural rhythms people work

CRM needs to evolve with the transformation of Web 2.0, beyond basic transactional and analytical information, to take advantage of the new way people want to do business. more...


Social CRM comes of age

Social CRM comes of age

The new breed of CRM: Are you ready?

Who is this “social customer”? What strategies and tools does the new breed of CRM provide to do something about this? more...


Seven tips for profiting from lean times with CRM

Seven tips for profiting from lean times with CRM

Leveraging CRM processes to turbo-charge your sales operation

Boosting your sales operation during lean economic times with CRM more...




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Tomorrow's world

Tomorrow's world

Identifying some of the trends that will shape the role of the CIO into 2020

The HR director is the CIO's best friend, says K2's Kate Hanaghan more...


CIO Profile: Nationwide's Tony Prestedge on transformation

CIO Profile: Nationwide's Tony Prestedge on transformation

Building Society follows through with £1bn IT transformation programme

Customer ownership makes driving and communicating strategic change easier for Nationwide Building Society’s chief operating officer Tony Prestedge more...


CIO Profile: Vodafone's Albert Hitchcock on global IT

CIO Profile: Vodafone's Albert Hitchcock on global IT

Upwardly mobile

Albert Hitchcock has led a worldwide standardisation programme for Vodafone that will drive down operating costs, improve customer experience and lower energy usage more...


Three examples of Mobile Business 2.0

Three examples of Mobile Business 2.0

A sound strategy is essential before rushing to meet user demands for mobile IT

A mobile revolution is upon the business world, says Christine Hodgson of Capgemini, who provide some examples of businesses that have embraced the process changes more...


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Southeastern deploys mobile social media to tackle rail delays

All staff to be more connected and more informed about potential problems

All staff to be more connected and more informed about potential problems more...


GP technology use in England leads world

Accenture report praises primary care applications but hospital IT splutters

Accenture report praises primary care applications but hospital IT splutters more...


UK banks failing to engage with customers on social media

Some 69 percent of customers would not use Twitter, Google Plus or Facebook to interact with customer services

Some 69 percent of customers would not use Twitter, Google Plus or Facebook to interact with customer services more...


Lloyds rolls out major complaints handling system

Charter Continuum system to handle PPI enquiries

Charter Continuum system to handle PPI enquiries more...




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The cloud 2015 vision

Cloud computing is an important transition and a paradigm shift in IT services delivery - one that promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are growing exponentially. The tools, building blocks, solutions, and best practices for cloud computing are evolving and challenges to deploying cloud solutions need to be considered.

The consumerisation of technology

iPads are the must-have fad. Android is the rising mobile platform -- Everywhere you turn, the news is about personal, smart, mobile devices and their impact on business and on IT.

Big data analytics

Broadly, there are two ways to think of Big Data technologies. The first is as an extension of what many organisations are already doing with business analytics. Gaining insight from business information is something that has been happening for decades, but the challenges and opportunities are now greater than ever before.

Virtualisation: benefits, challenges and solutions

The majority of organisations have already implemented server virtualisation and most intend to implement additional server virtualisation during the next year. The primary factors driving the movement to deploy server virtualisation are cost savings and the ability to dynamically provision and move VMs among physical servers. There are however, a number of significant challenges associated with server virtualisation.


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CFO Expectations of IT