Explore Salesforce Solutions for Customer- and Market-Driven Companies
Learning Objectives
After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:
- Describe how Salesforce solutions help you deliver customer-driven and market-driven results.
- Identify the Salesforce solutions enabling customer-driven and market-driven behaviors.
Salesforce Enables Customer-Driven and Market-Driven Activities
It’s time to pull it all together with Salesforce—yes, at last, you say! Having a guiding conceptual framework is great, but we also need to know how technology solutions fit in. Let’s take a closer look at how Salesforce can help turn your company into a customer- and market-driven rock star.
First, let’s see how our framework of customer- and market-driven companies aligns with just a few of the many things that Salesforce can do. Looking at Figure 7, we can see that Salesforce solutions enable the desired levers, activities, and outcomes.
Figure 7. Salesforce enables companies to be customer- and market-driven
Taking it a step farther, Figure 8 shows how specific Salesforce solutions enable the three essential activities of customer- and market-driven organizations.
Engage and Gather Information |
Analyze and Share Information |
Make Decisions and Take Action |
Management Support, Align and Interconnect, Recognize and Reward |
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The beauty is that each company can utilize Salesforce in a way that suits them best. For example, General Electric uses Salesforce to generate intelligence, analyze and share it, and respond by developing better products.
These principles also work in the nonprofit sector. American Red Cross uses the Marketing Cloud Engagement to listen to social media conversations, gathering invaluable information during a disaster or monitoring public preparedness for a serious situation. Data gathered in its Digital Operations Center can also help determine where to position workers on the ground.
Summary
As you can see from the figures above, Salesforce solutions both support and enable the three essential activities of customer- and market-driven organizations. They also help organizations with their levers to influence the execution of these activities.
All you need to do now is identify which solutions can help your organization the most.
Resources
- Salesforce solutions
- Salesforce General Electric (GE) success story
- Salesforce American Red Cross success story