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How IT Can Help Attract New Customers



By Allan Alter


  Table of Contents:
  1. How IT Can Help Attract New Customers
  2. FINDING 1: IT on Service and Retention
  3. FINDING 2: Service Priority No. 1
  4. FINDING 3: Online Experience
  5. FINDING 4: Marketing Novices
  6. FINDING 5: Mobile Phones
  7. FINDING 6: CIOs Create

All that hard work on customer service is starting to pay off. This year CIOs should also focus on two internal customers: the sales and marketing organizations.

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How IT Can Help Attract New Customers - FINDING 6: CIOs Create


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Finding 6: CIOs Help Create Marketing and Sales Strategy

With online sales, marketing and service so deeply dependent on IT, CIOs should and do get involved at the highest level in those decisions. Yet CIOs are split on whether or not they help decide on sales, marketing and service software. That suggests line executives and CEOs often have the final call on which systems they want to install, CIOs defer decisions down to lower level staff,or that they limit themselves to setting guidelines and standards.



 
 
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