In this episode, Paige Johnson and Sanjeev Kumar talk with Leslie Page, a business analyst at Skience. Leslie has been in the CRM world since 1998. She started her career as a subject expert for ACT Migration, worked for Siebel, and then did proposal writing for Oracle. Leslie has witnessed how CRM has evolved and how it has made a huge difference in organizations. Leslie talks with Paige and Sanjeev about the No. 1 killer of tech adoption, the impact of CRM and other tools in firms, and the future of CRM and predictive analytics. [27:20] - "CRM is not meant initially to be at least sexy. You start once you have the maturity and the adoption of being able to use the predictive side so that you can guide your people. The organizations should be working on the most important things. It’s really exciting for our users—they see it as a game-changer.” ~ Leslie Page
Main Takeaways
[06:49] - A lot of firms are still stuck with manual processes. Deciding on the tech stack takes a lot more time than the implementation for some firms. They recognize the possibilities of automation, but they have a difficult time adopting it.