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Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. Originally a basement-run role-playing game publisher, the company popularized the collectible card game genre with Magic: The Gathering in the mid-1990s, acquired the popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game by purchasing the failing company TSR, and experienced tremendous success by publishing the licensed Pokémon Trading Card Game. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Renton, Washington.[1]
Today, Wizards of the Coast publishes role-playing games, board games, and collectible card games. They have received numerous awards, including several Origins Awards. The company has been a subsidiary of Hasbro since 1999.
Communication is central to any successful relationship. In terms of Customer Relationship Management, communication needs to be consistent and high quality; as determined by:
* on time
* focused
* relevant
* reliable
* coherent
Importantly also, for effective communications it's the message and meaning that is received that counts, irrespective of what the communicator thinks they've said, or written. Communications must be judged most vitally by the reaction of the receiver. If the reaction is not good then the communication is poor.
The information contained in a CRM system allows communication to be directed at the correct audience, in the correct way. The communication system must also encourage and facilitate honest and actionable feedback.
Feedback from customers - especially complaints - are essential for good organizational performance and ongoing development. Most organizations avoid, discourage and hide from complaints. Don't. Complaints are free guidance for improving your quality, and free opportunities to increase customer loyalty.
people and CRM
As with any other business process your people have a huge impact on the success of the CRM process.
Successful and effective Customer Relationship Management people tend to display the following key characteristics:
* positive attitude
* people orientation
* organizational skills
* analytical skills
* customer focus (natural empathy)
* understanding of the link between CRM and profitability
On the subject of empathy: Empathy is about understanding, not necessarily agreeing. Effective customer focus enables the organization and its staff to see both sides, and to work with the customer to arrive at a mutually satisfactory and sustainable solution. Agreement alone amounts to capitulation, which is neither practicable nor sustainable.
'Moments of truth' are encounters with customers which cause them to form a view of the organization based on how they are engaged, particularly compared to their expectations.
Expectations can be met, exceeded or disappointed. Moments of truth can therefore be positive, in the case of meeting and exceeding expectations, or negative, in the case of disappointment. Monitoring the 'moments of truth' allows the company to focus on improving areas responsible for negative customer experiences.
Remedial action to prevent repetition is crucial. A single mistake is forgivable. A repeat rarely is.
If you put things right your customers will see that they are important to you. Put things right and you will be seen as a supplier who knows how to manage quality.
Organizations that fail to put right things that go wrong, might as well say to the customer, "You are not important to us". Failing to put things right and to prevent reoccurrence says of the organization "We are not capable of managing quality service."
Bear in mind also that research has proven time and again that when an an issue of poor service to a customer is satisfactorily resolved by a supplier, the customer increases their loyalty to the supplier to a higher level than existed prior to the problem.
An approach to managing 'moments of truth' involves 'continuous improvement'. This entails processes that continually monitor, check and resolve negative moments of truth by ensuring alterations happen to the customer process, and integrating theses changes into 'business as usual'. Here are the elements of such an approach:
* define the cycle of service
* identify negative moments of truth
* define the reasons (ie., root causes - not symptoms)
* develop solution/s
* test solution(s)/review/amend
* implement
* monitor impact on the cycle of service
Today, Wizards of the Coast publishes role-playing games, board games, and collectible card games. They have received numerous awards, including several Origins Awards. The company has been a subsidiary of Hasbro since 1999.
Communication is central to any successful relationship. In terms of Customer Relationship Management, communication needs to be consistent and high quality; as determined by:
* on time
* focused
* relevant
* reliable
* coherent
Importantly also, for effective communications it's the message and meaning that is received that counts, irrespective of what the communicator thinks they've said, or written. Communications must be judged most vitally by the reaction of the receiver. If the reaction is not good then the communication is poor.
The information contained in a CRM system allows communication to be directed at the correct audience, in the correct way. The communication system must also encourage and facilitate honest and actionable feedback.
Feedback from customers - especially complaints - are essential for good organizational performance and ongoing development. Most organizations avoid, discourage and hide from complaints. Don't. Complaints are free guidance for improving your quality, and free opportunities to increase customer loyalty.
people and CRM
As with any other business process your people have a huge impact on the success of the CRM process.
Successful and effective Customer Relationship Management people tend to display the following key characteristics:
* positive attitude
* people orientation
* organizational skills
* analytical skills
* customer focus (natural empathy)
* understanding of the link between CRM and profitability
On the subject of empathy: Empathy is about understanding, not necessarily agreeing. Effective customer focus enables the organization and its staff to see both sides, and to work with the customer to arrive at a mutually satisfactory and sustainable solution. Agreement alone amounts to capitulation, which is neither practicable nor sustainable.
'Moments of truth' are encounters with customers which cause them to form a view of the organization based on how they are engaged, particularly compared to their expectations.
Expectations can be met, exceeded or disappointed. Moments of truth can therefore be positive, in the case of meeting and exceeding expectations, or negative, in the case of disappointment. Monitoring the 'moments of truth' allows the company to focus on improving areas responsible for negative customer experiences.
Remedial action to prevent repetition is crucial. A single mistake is forgivable. A repeat rarely is.
If you put things right your customers will see that they are important to you. Put things right and you will be seen as a supplier who knows how to manage quality.
Organizations that fail to put right things that go wrong, might as well say to the customer, "You are not important to us". Failing to put things right and to prevent reoccurrence says of the organization "We are not capable of managing quality service."
Bear in mind also that research has proven time and again that when an an issue of poor service to a customer is satisfactorily resolved by a supplier, the customer increases their loyalty to the supplier to a higher level than existed prior to the problem.
An approach to managing 'moments of truth' involves 'continuous improvement'. This entails processes that continually monitor, check and resolve negative moments of truth by ensuring alterations happen to the customer process, and integrating theses changes into 'business as usual'. Here are the elements of such an approach:
* define the cycle of service
* identify negative moments of truth
* define the reasons (ie., root causes - not symptoms)
* develop solution/s
* test solution(s)/review/amend
* implement
* monitor impact on the cycle of service
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