Before you look away, this is not about Social CRM definitions.
Paul Greenberg wrote a Focus brief earlier this week, comparing Social CRM and Traditional CRM. I want to extend the thought a little bit with a post I have been writing for a couple of weeks now. Paul’s post gave me [...]
By now you probably read all about the new partnership between Hinchcliffe & Company, Asuret, and Socialtext to form Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0. If you have not, choose from the following excellent reviews of the solution and the details.
Will Social CRM eventually be viewed as an extension of existing CRM or as just one critical component in adapting to the realities of a Web-connected world? Will companies deploy SCRM as a result of thinking “how can we improve customer relationship management?” or will they deploy SCRM as a result of thinking “how can we transform ourselves into a socially-driven business?”
If you have been following the #SCRM Accidental Community on Twitter lately you probably have seen my crazy rants against — well, anyone out there who calls SCRM a market, or a technology – or anything other than new channels for CRM.
This post is an attempt to summarize some of those [...]

