Saturday, 22 November 2008

CRM Software Needs Assessment

Planning, planning, planning....

This is the most important aspect when investing not only your money but your time into in a new software solution. Why not make it this process easier by highlight your main software requirements by
completing a needs assessment.

Establish a core team of individuals from all different areas of your business, including a project manager, to oversee and manage the whole process. By having people from different areas you can get a solution that is best for your business and not just one department.

Just some of the question include:
  • Analysis of our current process and highlight which ones are working, which are not, why?
  • What is it about our current system that is most frustrating or troublesome?
  • Do we need online CRM, on premise CRM or a combination?
  • How many system users will we have?
  • What features, and key fields will do we need?
  • What reporting capabilities will we need?
  • When do we need the CRM?
  • What is our budget?

Click here for more information on CRM need assessments