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Post Merger - CRM Operations Onboarding

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As companies continue to grow in an inorganic way, other companies with similar domain or operations focus are regularly acquired by mid-size as well as large companies. As part of my role to manage Global CRM IT Applications, I was lucky to see series of such acquisitions done by my company and understand areas C-executives typically worry post acquisition i.e. how to get a common customer view or a combined forecasting numbers after acquisition. As data sits in the acquired company systems, getting this data in parent company system is quite challenging and needs a well-defined strategy on how this has to be accomplished.   Some of the challenges which are common and come to fore for handling effective and consolidated CRM Operations are; How to manage CRM Operations through a common system going ahead? How to stop double entry in systems? How to enable change management for on-boarded company employees for CRM tasks? How to manage data and plan deduplication of the acqui