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Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

As mounting global competition makes products and services increasingly similar, customer relationships have become one of the most important assets of sales and marketing-driven businesses. Using value and needs-based customer segmentation, we work out the right strategy to access, gain and retain customers in the most efficient and effective way possible.

In brief

Customer-driven growth strategies

The traditional split of tasks in gaining (sales) and retaining (CRM) customers no longer works. In mature or even declining markets, exploiting customer potential is the main driver of growth. Even in a booming market environment, the increasing diversity of customer needs and tastes has made it crucial to understand them and respond appropriately with offers tailored to individual needs.

Our comprehensive CRM Excellence approach helps our clients better understand their customers. Using value and needs-based customer segmentation, we work out the right strategy to access, gain and retain customers in the most efficient and effective way possible.

 
The Roland Berger CRM Excellence approach
 

The Four Pillars of CRM Excellence are approaches to segmenting and then manage customers either directly, through channel partners or with loyalty programs:

  • Customer segmentation: Understanding customer value, loyalty and needs
  • Direct marketing/CRM: Setting up targeted one-to-one strategies
  • Channel-based CRM: Managing customers through channel partners
  • Loyalty programs: Developing effective customer loyalty programs

Our experts

Austria

Roland Falb

Managing Partner

Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 1 53602-201
E-mail: e-mail

 

Bahrain

Christian Wessels

Partner

Manama, Bahrain
Phone: +973 17 567-950
E-mail: e-mail

 

France

Nicolas Teisseyre

Partner

Paris, France
Phone: +33 1 53670-973
E-mail: e-mail

 

Germany

Lars Luck

Partner

Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 9230-8605
E-mail: e-mail

 

Partner

Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 9230-8790
E-mail: e-mail

 
Dorit Posdorf

Principal

Düsseldorf, Germany
Phone: +49 160 744 2150
E-mail: e-mail

 

Italy

Alfredo Arpaia

Partner

Milan, Italy
Phone: +39 02 29501-302
E-mail: e-mail

 

Japan

Ryuji Ono

Partner

Tokyo, Japan
Phone: +81 3 35876-660
E-mail: e-mail

 

Nigeria

Christian Wessels

Partner

Lagos, Nigeria
Phone: +23 481 5268 8826
E-mail: e-mail

 

Poland

Maciej Korzeniowski

Partner

Warsaw, Poland
Phone: +48 22 32374-83
E-mail: e-mail

 

Spain

Ricardo Wehrhahn

Partner

Madrid, Spain
Phone: +34 91 5647361
E-mail: e-mail

 

Switzerland

Carsten Henkel

Co-Chairman and Senior Partner

Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 43 336-8610
E-mail: e-mail

 

United Arab Emirates

Dorit Posdorf

Principal

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Phone: +971 44 46 4080
E-mail: e-mail

 
Christian Wessels

Partner

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Phone: +971 44 46 4080
E-mail: e-mail

 

United Kingdom

Ionut Pascu

Principal

London, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 20 3075-1100
E-mail: e-mail

 

Further reading

Oliver Conze, Winning customer loyalty with customer benefits

Oliver Conze (book in German), 2007

The concept of customer value was established to manage customer relations in marketing. When designing actions to increase customer loyalty, the value that a customer represents for a provider is often at the forefront …  >>

 

Brochure, 2006

The CRM hype is over, the strategic necessity remains. Customer relationships may well be the most important asset of virtually every sales and marketing-driven business. However, building customer loyalty with targeted offerings is a tough job, as mounting global competition makes products and services increasingly similar. At the same time, however, customer needs and tastes are becoming more and more varied …  (PDF, 344 KB)