Absa Bank Case Study

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“CRM is a sound business strategy to identify the bank’s most profitable customers and prospects, and devotes time and attention to expanding account relationships with those customers through individualized marketing, repricing, discretionary decision making, and customized service-all delivered through the various sales channels that the bank uses”
Customer relationship management is a tool or mechanism used by banks to research and collate information on their customers with the aim of understanding their preferential needs, behaviour and taste. The concept of CRM is very crucial to the banking sector as it serves as methodology to building a solid long lasting relationship with the customers. It combines technology and human resource to …show more content…

The customer who is the main key and reason why the bank would engage and adopt the customer relationship management concept. The objective or the strategy for the Absa business bank is to attract new clients, grow the number of primary bank clients and maintain the current relationship with clients, grow market share, increase and improve the noninterest revenues and attract and retain qualified staff. To be able to achieve this Absa need to design and develop its own CRM systems and subdivide the systems into three …show more content…

Establish data warehousing where the data collected will be integrated with the business strategy.
“The data warehouse will be customer centric and contain the following;
 Demographic (age, sex, cultural level, marital status, etc.)
 ownership of bank's product/services
 Product/services usage (balance, transactions, etc.)
 global variables : profit, cost, risk, assets, liabilities
 Relationship with the bank: segment, portfolio, etc.”

The objective of data collection is to get a holistic view of each customer and identify areas where the business needs to improve, whether it be the strategy or process or systems or products, to enable better customer experience and service. The data warehouse will assist with tracking customers life stages, which will help in terms of cross selling as well, and they will be consistency in the management reporting’s. Data warehouse can also be used for its marketing strategies Phase three
Phase three is the implementation and evaluation of outcomes/results.

The benefits of CRM
 Improves on the products and services that will be in accordance with the customer’s taste and

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