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Enterprise Feedback Management Market Growing

I recently returned from the Gartner Customer Relationship Management (CRM) conference in London. While there, I was encouraged to hear about the growth of the Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) market. It seems that the EFM market, in conjunction with CRM and Customer Experience Management (CEM) has been growing, despite the economic climate, at a rate [...]

Credit Unions Brace for Financial Assessment; Look for Ways to Do More with Less

I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s CUNA Government Affairs Conference (GAC) in Washington, DC. Someday I’ll probably tell my kids “I was there when it was all going down.” I literally stood a few hundred feet from the White House the same week President Obama was preparing to deliver his first budget [...]

Community:More Items to Consider Before Diving into this New World

Something I have come to understand because of this new community wave is that employee and customer communities have existed in our corporate spheres for a long time, even before the modern day internet. Anyone remember CompuServe or the old dial-up bulletin boards? (If you can’t remember, rent the movie “WarGames” starring Matthew Broderick). [...]

Customer Care and the Flight of the Ostrich

I love Wikipedia. It’s great for confirming or denying facts, pseudofacts, rumors etc.
I was curious this evening about ostriches. Specifically, whether ostriches really bury their heads in the sand to avoid facing things. This is what I found: “Contrary to popular belief, ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand-When threatened, ostriches run away.”
I [...]