CRM Public Sector is a Unique solution for Citizens

CRM Public offers a unique opportunity for Public Sectors to obtain a more complete picture of their citizens as “individual customers” and, by doing so, can help eliminate the need for citizens to submit redundant applications and information to apply for various services. In essence, CRM allows Public Sector organizations to provide services in a much more integrated, cost effective way.

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The promise of CRM Public Sector is clear-cut. However, implementing the technology effectively can come with challenges. That’s why I’ve prepared few tips, based on my conversations with customers implementing CRM, to help you best prepare for your own implementation.

1.Understand how your citizens want to interact with you, consume government services, and through which channels.

One of the most frequent issues that I hear from our customers is that, after going through great effort to offer a government service online with CRM, it’s not getting the response or use they had hoped for. The lesson here is to understand how your citizens prefer to interact with you and access government services. While in some cases a citizen may want a new service, delivered via an online portal, in others, they may simply be looking for more information, made accessible via a basic website.

2.Cultural challenges: employee resistance to new technologies and customer-oriented service delivery.

Another barrier to successful CRM Public Sector adoption can be within your own organisation. Shifting to CRM can be a major cultural shift, as employees who were once used to working behind a desk, must now be actively engaged with citizens and responding to their service requests. In addition, presenting employees with a new technology can be a roadblock, as employees often prefer to work with familiar tools and don’t want to have to learn yet another program. The good news is that with Dynamics CRM, the solution integrates seamlessly within our suite of Office solutions. This can help dramatically reduce the learning curve for employees and can also help improve the likelihood of adoption.

3. Keeping CRM in pace with constantly changing policies.

Government policies change all the time. In the U.K., for example, we’re currently going through the biggest welfare reforms since 1948. As a result, these types of changes can have a dramatic impact on the ongoing management and function of CRM systems. That’s why it’s important to select a CRM solution that can adapt to policy changes without requiring a long and complicated redevelopment or coding process. A key feature of Dynamics CRM is that it enables governments to quickly put policy changes into action, and can do this in a much more automated fashion, eliminating the need for a system integrator to manually develop a new business rule or process change for the entire system.

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