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5 Rules for a Lean CRM - Get it everywhere

The final post in the "Lean CRM" series. In previous posts we have discussed the importance of simplicity of the system, consistency of the generated data, engagement of the team, and relevance/accuracy of the data in order to retain a return on the CRM investment. With all these things in...

Matt Koopmans
19.06.18 01:44 PM - Comment(s)
5 Rules for a Lean CRM - Keep it real

Post four of a series of five in which we focus on how to implement and maintain a lean, functional CRM. Five simple rules to set you up for an effective customer relationship management system that will provide you lasting benefits. We have addressed how to keep the system simple and consistent, an...

Matt Koopmans
11.06.18 02:07 PM - Comment(s)
5 Rules for a Lean CRM - Keep your team engaged

Post three out of five - five rules for a lean CRM - today we explore how to keep the team engaged. CRM can be a dull environment where sales people register their leads, opportunities, and account activities. CRM can be a good communication tool for what happened, is happening, and is likely to hap...

Matt Koopmans
04.06.18 05:22 PM - Comment(s)
5 Rules for a Lean CRM - Keep it consistent

This is the second post in a series of five. In previous post, we discussed the need to keep it simple, if you want your CRM to provide return on your investment. In this post, we focus on the data your CRM system can generate (either with you or for you). Consistent data points you in the direction...

Matt Koopmans
25.05.18 12:15 PM - Comment(s)
5 Rules for a Lean CRM - Keep it simple
This is the first post of a series of five, aimed to get you the most out of your CRM system. Following five rules, one described in each post, allows you to implement and maintain a lean and functional CRM
Matt Koopmans
22.05.18 02:46 PM - Comment(s)
Project Service Automation - how do your systems enable collaboration?

Projects are all about communication and collaboration. More project service automation tools are being delivered to the market. If you are in the professional services industry, delivering knowledge intensive programs, you should read on...

The Project Manager Experience

Project managers live in sche...

Matt Koopmans
16.05.18 11:12 AM - Comment(s)
Best of Breed or Best of Everything?
Best of Breed or Best of Everything - the choice for customer engagement software is not easy. What gives you the biggest bang for the buck? Read more...
Matt Koopmans
10.05.18 12:16 PM - Comment(s)
Aurelian Group new site launched

We are pleased to announce that the overhauled website for Aurelian Group is live today. A new site, with new possibilities. Check out the various software sections, sign up for a free trial, or subscribe to service plans. Right here from the site, or if you like, request a quote. Do sign up to our ...

Matt Koopmans
01.05.18 06:00 AM - Comment(s)
Business applications and the suspension of market economics
The price we are willing to pay for goods or services depends on the cost of alternatives available, including the alternative of doing nothing. Easy, weigh up the benefits, and compare those to the cost, right? Well, yes and no.
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:05 PM - Comment(s)
Small goes BIG - integrated systems for entrepreneurs and small businesses
Enterprise grade business applications without the enterprise grade price-tag or headache? Entrepreneurs and small business owners - read on!
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:04 PM - Comment(s)
Expectations 3: Time dilation
Time seems to go faster when you are in a high pressure project - tasks fall behind, no matter how much slack was added to the plan.
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:04 PM - Comment(s)
Expectations 2: Cost and Value
No matter the construct of the program - there is a finite amount of money that can be allocated to the program. For that money, one has to balance speed (time to value), specification (functionality) and quality (ability and longevity to realise value).
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:03 PM - Comment(s)
Expectations 1: adding the fifth wheel with customisation
Well over 70% of implementations are still deemed "a failure" by either not meeting the budget, scope (specification) or time (to value). In the vast majority of these cases, it is the expectation mismatch that is the root cause.
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:03 PM - Comment(s)
Taming the Governance-monster
Governance - Without it any program or project is destined to fail. Is it the secret sauce for success? How much governance, and when is it too much?
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:03 PM - Comment(s)
Too big to succeed
When failure is not an option, when the consequences of failure are catastrophic, our first response is to put safeguards in place - with redundancy. As a result, the system became bigger, and more complex. It is not too big to fail, but failure is inevitable.
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:02 PM - Comment(s)
The services industry is changing. What are the challenges faced in the rapidly changing cloud application market, and how can mixing "gig-economy" with the traditional delivery practice alleviate these challenges?
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:02 PM - Comment(s)
Why traditional RFx processes result in a bad deal - rethinking the RFx in a transforming industry
The RFx process has its intents and purposes on both sides of the contracting partners. Unfortunately, they are not the same in a fundamental way. The table below shows the different perspectives that typically arise in this process.
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:01 PM - Comment(s)
The customer-centric services practice
In this article we explore the customer centricity in a software services practice and compare the elements against the more "traditional" ways of delivering software services.
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:00 PM - Comment(s)
The increasing scope of Customer Success Management
The Customer Success teams are a way to bring some form of control back to the vendor, helping to forge the quickest path to success.... in theory at least, as the Customer Success teams have no contractual engagement on the implementation project, other than advisor.
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:00 PM - Comment(s)
High performing teams - perception is not always reality
A high performing team - we want to work with one, lead one, and be in one. Everyone wants to be on the winning team! But is a winning team automatically a high performing team? Or in the reverse - if the team does not win, is there something wrong with the team performance?
Matt Koopmans
22.04.18 06:00 PM - Comment(s)