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Contents
1. The Business Objective ............................................................................................................................. 4
2. Business Drivers ........................................................................................................................................ 4
2.1 External Drivers ................................................................................................................................... 4
2.2 Internal Drivers ................................................................................................................................... 4
3. Investment Objective ................................................................................................................................ 4
4. Benefits, measures and owners ................................................................................................................ 5
5. CRM Acquisition and Selection Approaches ............................................................................................. 7
5.1 Open Source Applications ................................................................................................................... 7
5.2 Commercial off the Shelf Applications (COTS) .................................................................................... 7
5.3 In house development ........................................................................................................................ 8
6. Software Evaluation Criteria ..................................................................................................................... 8
7. Strategy for Team Formation .................................................................................................................. 11
8. Organizational Changes Enabling the Benefits ....................................................................................... 13
9. Investment costs ..................................................................................................................................... 13
10. Risk Analysis and Mitigation Strategies ................................................................................................ 14
11. Recommendations ................................................................................................................................ 15
12. Change Management Strategy ............................................................................................................. 15
References .................................................................................................................................................. 16
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2. Business Drivers
Following are the external and internal business drivers of ICS Services Business Case.
3. Investment Objective
Following objectives were identified for investment in the new CRM system for ICS Services.
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Objective Type Doing New Things Doing Things Better Stop Doing Things
Pros
Open source applications have no licensing fees and it is very few if any.
Products are improved day by day as source code is freely available for any improvements,
modifications or bug fixes
Companies are free to tailor applications to fit for their needs.
OSS is easy to manage as any number of copies can be installed and there is no need to track or
monitor it for license compliances.
Cons
Open source communities are not obligated to provide support for applications and there is not
much support provided on them generally, so company opting for OSS should be able to support
itself on its own.
Sometimes an expert needs to be hired to provide training to users, which can add up the cost.
There can be unanticipated administration or implementation costs.
Sold, leased, or licensed to the general Public, Offered by a vendor trying to profit from it, Supported
and evolved by the vendor, who retains the intellectual property rights, Available in multiple, identical
copies and Used without modification of the internals (Blanchette 2005, p.472).
There are different pros and cons associated with usage of COTS applications, which are explained as
under:
Pros
As these applications are thoroughly tested by well established vendors and other clients as well, these
are quite reliable. Therefore, it has much lower risk and cost associated with it. Moreover, application is
delivered in comparatively less time as one need not to wait for designing and development of product
(Blanchette 2005, p.475).
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Cons
If a wrong product is chosen, reason being the requirements were not addressed properly, management
did not consider proper architectural and configuration management beforehand; all the pros listed
above will turn into odds and will worsen the situation (Blanchette 2005, p.474). Moreover, the vendor
has full control over source code and the functionality of application and client is dependent on vendor
for any technical support (Setende 2012, p.5).
Cons
Building a system from scratch is costly as involves activities of full SDLC. It is time consuming as well
comparatively (Chianis 2014). Moreover, it will be very expensive to switch to new technology if need
for it arises (Setende 2012, p.3).
These applications are measured against criteria discussed by Jadhav & Sonar (2009, p. 560) i.e.
Functional, Vendor, Cost and Benefit and Quality (Refer to Table 5.1, 5.2). These criteria will be assigned
weight according to their importance and resulting best application will be selected using WAS
(Weighted Average Sum) method.
Vendor Popularity
Quality Characteristics
Error Report
Ease of Use
Weighted scoring method is used here to show how each candidate application measures up against the
above mentioned criteria. Weights are assigned to each criterion according to their importance and
rates are assigned for each application to show how it meets the mentioned criteria (Perez & Rojas
2000, p. 492).
Here, rates are divided into three categories against each criterion: 1- Poor (Badly matches the
criterion), 2- Average (Partially matches), 3- Good (satisfactorily fulfils).
Criteria Weight Rate Score Rate Score Rate Score Rate Score
Sugar CRM Netsuite MS In house
Dynamics
197 266.5 255 239.5
Functional 40% 15 105 17 117.5 15 110 16 112.5
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10% 3 30 3 30 3 30 3 30
Completeness
10% 2 20 3 30 3 30 3 30
Adaptability
5% 3 15 3 15 2 10 2 10
Interoperability
2.5% 3 7.5 3 7.5 1 2.5 2 5
Security Levels
2.5% 1 2.5 2 5 3 7.5 3 7.5
Vendor 20% 12 32 21 57 21 57 14 43
User Manual 4% 2 8 3 12 3 12 3 12
Tutorial Support 4% 2 8 3 12 3 12 2 8
Training 3% 1 3 3 9 3 9 3 9
Vendor Popularity
1.5% 2 3 3 4.5 3 4.5 1 1.5
License Cost 7% 3 21 2 14 2 14 3 21
Training Cost 6% 1 6 2 12 2 12 1 6
Quality 20% 8 26 16 52 15 48 15 50
Personalization 2% 2 4 3 6 3 6 3 6
Portability 4% 2 8 3 12 1 4 2 8
Maintainability 4% 1 4 2 8 2 8 2 8
Usability 4% 1 4 2 8 3 12 3 12
Reliability 4% 1 4 3 12 3 12 3 12
Efficiency 2% 1 2 3 6 3 6 2 4
issues. Valuable resources and implementation effort for trouble free operating environment can
only be allocated by the top management.
Effective Communication:
Executive sponsor is the liaison between the steering committee and the project team who
monitors the health and activities of the project and assists in effective communication between
the team and the project stakeholders. A lot of other important important decisions like
prioritizing tasks, reviewing milestones, quality and efficiency of the project is the responsibility
of this individual. An experienced consultant should be chosen for this role.
Project Management
A project Champion with strong management and communication skills with a good
understanding of objectives of the Customer management operation will fit this role. This
individual will also understand the vision of the management and accordingly plan and progress
the project and adjust the plan whenever required. Coordinating the interdependent tasks and
establishing short term goals to keep the CRM implementation on track with time and budget are
the responsibilities of the Project Manager (Fui-Hoon, 2001).
The SMEs can further choose more team members under them such as end users who will
actively use the new system and hence get their opinion and feedback on the system while
developing it.
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Business Analyst: A big volume of transaction data- contacts, campaigns, accounts, activities,
etc. are processed through CRM software everyday which gives BA a chance to manipulate and
analyze this data and put it in the hands of decision makers. Change management and efficient
user acceptance is also the responsibility of the BA (Holland, 2016).
CRM application implementation will lead to internal and external changes. Hence internal changes will
be elucidated in the first section. CRM will improve efficiency of as the company will be capable of
providing better services. There will be standardisation of service in an organisation which can be
ensured by management as they will be able track subsidiaries from the central office. CRM
implementation is very cost effective because it will avoid redundant steps because of automation.
Work flow management is going to be easier because now tasks to workforce will be allocated and
monitored through improved system. Thus this will improve the productivity of organisation which will
be reflected by KPI. It will allow higher management to forecast and predict future trends of sales.
Hence it will allow management to utilise their resources to their full potential. It is deduced that ICS will
be required to do downsizing of their staff as theyll be able to operate with one HR, Marketing and
Sales Team. Its inappropriate to recruit redundant staff and have multiple teams for new service lines
(Reddick, 2011).
Furthermore, principles of external changes will be elucidated in this section. CRM system will provide
organisations clients with an opportunity to provide feedback of sales staff and services. Thus this
feedback will create a transparent system which can be used by company to enhance services in future.
Moreover, information sharing will improve teamwork of organisation. Hence, if a client asks for
quotation of an additional service. Then that information will be shared with other department which
will use cross selling techniques in order to convince prospect. CRM implementation will lead to
effective management and analyse required changes by considering legal concerns (Reddick, 2011).
9. Investment costs
Purchase of new infrastructure: $ 300,000
Cost of implementation technical consultants: $ 150,000
Configuration costs: $ 100,000
Upgradation of existing infrastructure costs: $ 80,000
Business change costs: $ 300,000
Training costs: $ 90,000
Total: $ 1,020,000
Net increase in annual systems support and license costs: $ 125,000
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11. Recommendations
Based on the criteria and mapping of each candidate application against criteria according to weighted
scoring method, it is recommended that ICS Services acquire COTS application: Netsuite.
challenges regarding internal resistance from practice leaders which need to be addressed. Kotter &
Schlesinger (2008) have explored a number of reasons for individuals to resist change and four core
reasons were:
Parochial self-interest.
Lack of Trust and increase in misunderstanding.
Altered assessments of the situation.
Low change tolerance (Kotter and Schlesinger, 2008).
Kotter & Schlesinger (2008) analyzed that people might resist to change when they think that they might
lose something as a result of the change e.g. losing job. Same is the case with ICS Services as their
practice leaders might resist to change due to insecurity about losing jobs according to Sarah. Moreover,
when people infer that the change might not be beneficial, they tend to resist the change. Also, the
employees of company might assess the situation and estimate that the disadvantages outweigh the
advantages of change process. Last but not the least, people might not feel like developing the required
skills for new adapted system and may fail to encourage the change process. According to Kotter &
Schlesinger (2008), there are six approaches to deal with such situations which are explained below:
Educating and communicating about the change beforehand might help the employees to accept
the change. ICS employees should be well informed beforehand so that a sense of trust can be
developed among employees and employer. Proper communication will help them understand the
reason for adapting CRM and reduce the risks of inappropriate rumors in organization.
People working within an organization should be involved and participate actively in the change
process. In ICS, the employees should be encouraged to contribute to their maximum in the change
process of adapting a new CRM system so that knowledge gaps can be identified and solved
accordingly.
Training sessions should be organized for proper understanding and working of the new system.
Incentives should be given to the employees in order to develop trust among employees. For
example, giving bonuses for participating more in the change process.
Assign key roles in the change process to employees so that they are well aware of everything
happening during this process.
In the worst case scenario, employees are forced to accept this new system. This is a risky approach
but sometimes coercion is unavoidable.
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