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Silvana Buljan

Silvana Buljan
Silvana Buljan, founder of Buljan&Partners, has been working in CRM and eCRM Projects since 1997 as project manager and consultant for blue-chip clients. Her expertise is in the automotive, air transport and professional services sectors, focusing on CRM strategy, processes and organizational alignment, as well as CRM corporate training.

How to Use CRM to Sell Better in Automotive Retail

Let me tell you a story about how not to sell a car. A couple went to a premium brand dealership and wanted to...

Shareholder Value Versus Customer Value or How to Destroy and How to Create Value

Short-term focus on shareholder value is the reason why one big multinational brand is falling after the other in current times. Would the big...

How Do You Sell Cars? Forget Big Change and Just Focus on Making a Strategic Connection to Your Customers

What happens when you're trying to sell premium automobiles and there's such a long wait in your showroom that prospective customers leave? What happens...

Don’t Manage All Industrial B2B Firms the Same Way

Consider two real industrial business-to-business companies. The first is a manufacturer who produces premium electrical components like interrupters and switches. Its main customers are...

Lawyers, Too, Can Benefit From CRM

When the law firm that took over our company's legal advisory services two years ago asked me what Smartworxx did, I tried to find...

If You Want Customer-Centricity to Take Hold for the Long Term, You Need Full-Fledged CRM Training

Matthew was a customer management and marketing employee at an automotive retail client of ours. He didn't know much about CRM, but his company...

You and Your Employees Must Live a CRM Collaborative Culture

The European low-cost airline EasyJet is known for having a culture that motivates employees, which in turn leads the employees to make the customers...

The Ultimate Customer Experience

As a European, I love traveling to the U.S. because customer service seems so perfect compared to the service that you experience as customer...

Think Global, Act Local: Is CRM Country-Specific?

Imagine the following situation: You've been a customer of a multinational bank for 10 years. You are very satisfied with customer service and the...

Have Your Employees Participate Proactively When You Prepare for Redesign

Customer relationship management goes far beyond the implementation of new processes, organizational structures and new databases and systems. CRM touches the heart of the...

OEMs and Partners Need to Learn to Share Ownership of Their Customer

When it comes to implementing CRM in an original equipment manufacturer, the main question is: Who has customer ownership? Who will be the master...

CRM and Human Resources Are an Indispensable Duo

When implementing big CRM programs in their organizations, many companies are mainly focused on fulfilling the standard steps for CRM success: defining a CRM...

The System Won’t Work, Unless Your Training First Focuses on Strategy

Once you've migrated your data, implemented programming interfaces and consolidated the IT architecture, all CRM IT implementation projects have a common objective when coming...

Sales and Service Have To Know They’re in the Same Boat

How can sales and service work together to turn a contact center into a profit center? You could also ask: How can Tom and...

What Is Senior Management’s Role in Cultural Change?

CRM cannot be implemented within an organization without any effort in cultural change management. Why? Because, rather than being just another system implementation, customer...

CRM Fear Factor: When Is It OK To Say No to a Customer?

CRM Fear Factor is an occasional series of articles in which an expert shows you how to meet a challenge. A car rental customer notices...

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