ICM Suite

 
Thriving In the New Digital Economy

Today, sophisticated consumerism, cost pressures, e-commerce and mass acceptance of technology has raised consumer expectations and accelerated the way business is conducted. Competitiveness through innovation is no longer a fad but the key to surviving in the New Digital Economy. Businesses must now be able to serve their customers anywhere, anytime, anyhow. Financial institutions as well as global corporations are re-discovering the use of delivery channels such as the telephone, computers, internet, self service kiosks, call centre and mobile phones to extend their business in the global marketplace.

A business cannot rest upon establishing delivery channels as separate isolated relationships with the customer. The whole business, its processes and people have to be marshaled around the new strategy of doing business electronically.

Positioned For Today’s Needs & Tomorrow’s Challenges
There is a critical need for a solution that can manage a myriad of delivery channels that is powerful today and flexible for tomorrow.From a business perspective, this means faster time to market products and services, increased revenue through cross selling, enhanced customer intimacy through integrated customer profiling and reduced cost structure. From an IT perspective, this means reduced training cost and maintenance cost through single point of administration, less duplication and minimal customization efforts. 

The Challenge Of Managing Delivery Channels
To ensure seamless and consistent delivery channels in the eyes of the customers, businesses cannot continue to build isolated delivery channels. Therefore, integration has to achieve complete interoperability to manage, enhance and embrace existing and new delivery channels as well as to capture a complete view and understanding of its customer needs. This will provide a powerful business platform to deliver the right products to the right customers, at the right time and at the right place.

 

Most businesses function on a myriad of different applications, including packaged suites and legacy applications. Without an integrated infrastructure, businesses are unable to effectively and efficiently understand and respond to the needs of its customers.

 
     
 
The Task Of Executing Integrated Channel Management
Determining the best integration solution is often fraught with difficulty due to the complexity of the existing business structure that is largely not interoperable. Therefore, the integration process and ensuring interoperability - if not well managed can be complex, costly and time consuming. Consider the needs to....






assess existing and new business models.
map a comprehensive understanding of how its various components -people, processes, systems and delivery channels interact with the customer.
determine the interoperability between the various components.... and this is just the beginning.