Gary Sirek

Gary Sirek

N'compass Solutions, Inc.
Gary Sirek is senior technical consultant of N'compass, a Minneapolis-based regional consulting firm specializing in strategic IT assessment, planning and implementation for CRM, telephony and data center technology platforms. Sirek specializes in CRM business and technical assessment and development.
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    Posted on 2005-11-01
    Jack is married with two children. He earns an above-average income and enjoys spending a good portion of that income at a major U.S. big box retailer. This retailer identifies Jack as one of its marquee customers; its marketing aim is to understand and market to whatever he wants and needs. However, as company leaders shifted the business' focus from mass-marketing retail to customer-centric retailing, they came to realize they just didn't know Jack.

    Customer-centricity is the latest CRM buzzword, and nowhere is it more high profile than in the world of retail services.

    A CRM strategy objective
    In my seven years of experience as a retail CRM development consultant, my premise for success is that customer-centricity begins and ends with information content and flow. Capturing detailed customer information enables companies to segment their customer profiles into a variety of target categories; provide custom products and service...