Hilton has implemented a CRM system called Hilton OnQ to consolidate customer data and improve the guest experience. The system segments customers into four categories based on loyalty and spends data. It aims to recognize, personalize experiences for, and analyze individual customers. While the CRM system has helped Hilton outperform competitors, limitations include challenges in accurate data transfer and high operating costs. The document recommends optimizing internal management, utilizing big data and social media to improve personalization, and enhancing the mobile app and online travel partnerships to strengthen Hilton's CRM system.
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In the current time for every company it is relevant to include brand differentiation strategy, in order to become and remain leaders of the industry. It is important not only differentiate your offered product or service from competitors, but also the entire brand. Each customer values factors of the company and brand that are different from their competitors, because they want that brand would be integrated and the part of their life. So the main concern could be to differentiate brand in the most meaningful way and the solution could be to invoke customer relationship management. Building great relationships with customers and looking at them as the most important part of companys success could be a great factor in the way of differentiating brand.
In this case we will analyze the Hilton Hotel case, how they achieved brand differentiation through customer relationship management, present the problem and suggest possible solutions for the company.
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Hilton is a global hospitality company founded in 1919 that operates over 5,500 hotels across 78 countries. It established an early focus on customer relationship management (CRM) through its OnQ technology platform to maximize customer loyalty, drive organic growth, and create competitive differentiation through personalized service and analytics. Implementing CRM consistently across Hilton's large scale of operations, measuring its return on investment, and maintaining brand differentiation remain ongoing challenges.
Culinarian Cookware case study analysisSaurabh Mhase
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Culinarian Cookware is considering adopting a price promotion strategy but is unsure if it will be profitable. In 2004, an external study found price promotions had a negative impact on profits. However, the sales manager believes the 2004 campaign was successful. There is a dilemma around whether price promotions would help or hurt Culinarian's market share and profits. The case analyzes Culinarian's market position, previous promotion results, and makes recommendations around a new product line and limited price promotions to target different customer segments.
This document discusses the branding strategy of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts. It shows the company's room and hotel numbers from 2001-2003. It then discusses competitors like Aman Resorts that had strong branding. Rosewood realized guests were unaware of it as a brand and returns visits were low. To improve, it decided to emulate Aman's branding strategy of specialization while maintaining each hotel's uniqueness. This led to advantages like increased loyalty and cross-property usage. Challenges included not compromising uniqueness and large marketing costs. Results showed increased annual visits per guest with branding, though many metrics were still to be calculated. Customer and agent feedback emphasized raising brand awareness. Recommendations included subtle branding, PR, travel
Hilton hotels Brand Differentiation Through Customer Relationship ManagementRiya Aseef
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Hilton introduced its Hilton OnQ customer relationship management (CRM) system in 2002 as a key part of its "Customer Really Matters" strategy. OnQ allows hotel staff to recognize guests at check-in and provide personalized service by accessing guest histories and preferences. It aims to improve customer service, assist in service recovery for issues, and facilitate targeting of promotions and benefits to frequent guests and VIPs. Hilton closely tracks customer satisfaction and loyalty metrics to measure the success of its CRM initiatives in delivering on the "Customer Really Matters" promise of recognition, personalization, and quality service.
- Rosewood is a luxury hotel management company headquartered in Dallas, Texas with 12 hotels worldwide.
- It utilizes a "sense of place" philosophy where each hotel's design reflects the local culture.
- A survey found low brand recognition among guests, employees, and travel agents. Most knew individual hotels but not the Rosewood brand.
- Implementing a corporate branding strategy was proposed to increase customer loyalty and cross-property usage. This was estimated to significantly increase revenue and profits over the long run compared to just a frequent stay program.
Harvard Business School Case Study on Mountain Man Brewing Company by Shashank Srivastava, IET Lucknow under the guidance of Prof. Sameer Mathur, IIM Lucknow.
This case study is about Culinarian Cookware, a US cookware manufacturer. Key points:
- The US cookware market is $3.36 billion but potential is unexplored and competition is high. Culinarian lacks marketing funds and brand awareness.
- Culinarian's product lines include CX1, DX1, SX1, and PROX1. In 2004 they ran a price promotion that had a negative effect.
- Data shows their revenue grew 21% in 2006 but they need promotion for slow-moving products. Competitor market shares range from 18% to 3%.
- Culinarian's revenue and ad spending increased from 2002-2006 but distribution is mainly
Siebel System: Anatomy of a Sale, Part 1Anant Lodha
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Gregg Carman's job was to serve financial services clients in the New England region, including FleetBoston, Siebel's largest client. Carman was negotiating a $2.1 million deal with Quick & Reilly, a stockbroker acquired by FleetBoston. After the acquisition, Carman had to decide whether to continue supporting Quick & Reilly or focus on FleetBoston's wishes. The document discusses Siebel's goals, products, partnerships, and approach to ensuring customer satisfaction. It also evaluates Carman's interactions with potential customers from Quick & Reilly.
The document discusses the Microfridge product, which combines a refrigerator, freezer, and microwave. It is targeted at institutional living situations like colleges, military bases, and hotels/motels. The main markets in 1994 were colleges (55% of revenue), military (25%), and motels (18%). Microfridge faced medium competition but had patent protection. It acquired another company and replaced refrigerators with Microfridge units. While using two suppliers reduced costs, it created compatibility issues. Microfridge planned to focus on new "home away from home" products, rapidly increase sales, get $4M in equity, and repay debt to withstand future competition. Recommendations included innovating for new markets, focused product development, and exploring new
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There are four main types of pricing strategies from which Atlantic Computers canchoose. First, Atlantic Computers could stay with the status quo and offer software tools for free. Second, it could choose competitive based pricing. Third it could choose from Cost-plus pricing. Finally, it could choose value-in use pricing.In addition to determining which pricing strategy to use, Atlantic
Dana Wheeler is preparing recommendations for The Fashion Channel's new segmentation and positioning strategy to strengthen its competitive position against main rivals Lifetime and CNN. Three scenarios are suggested: 1) Targeting multiple segments including Fashionistas, Planners & Shoppers and Situationalists with a 20% rating increase but 10% CPM decrease. 2) Targeting just Fashionistas with a 20% rating decrease but 75% CPM increase and $15M in new programming. 3) Targeting Fashionistas and Planners & Shoppers with a 20% rating increase and 25% CPM increase requiring $20M in new programming. Scenario 3 is estimated to generate the highest net income of $168.8M
This document discusses a case involving Culinarian Cookware considering a price promotion. Donald Janus, VP of Culinarian, and Victoria Brown, Senior Sales Manager, debate the effects. While Janus is concerned it may hurt the brand image, Victoria believes it will boost awareness. The document provides market details on cookware from 2002-2007 and Culinarian's product lines, competitors, sales patterns, and research findings. It poses two problems: whether to run a price promotion in 2007 and if so, which products and terms. It recommends running a promotion, citing past sales increases, and focusing on their professional line promoted through celebrity chefs to maintain brand value while boosting sales.
- Apex Corporation is facing problems with its organizational structure including informality, lack of structure and financial planning, and increasing customer complaints.
- The document evaluates changing to a circular, functional, or divisional structure.
- It recommends a divisional structure to improve accountability, budgeting, planning and focus on financial targets while balancing control from upper management and freedom from lower management.
Loreal in China: Strategies for the Yue Sai BrandAnkit Sen
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L'Oreal acquired the Chinese skincare brand Yue Sai but has faced challenges in effectively positioning and marketing the brand. Some key issues include an uncertain business model, reduced brand visibility, and lack of motivation among L'Oreal employees in China. To address these, the document recommends that L'Oreal associate its name more closely with Yue Sai to increase brand awareness and customer acceptance. It also suggests strengthening promotions utilizing Chinese social media and traditional Chinese medicine values, while exploring new product categories and markets.
Dave Carrol, a musician traveled in United Airlines and finds his Guitar being broke due to poor cargo handling. The case tells about the events that followed and how United Airlines responded back and the customer service that was given to Dave and how he responded back.
This presentation gives you an insight into the world of The Ritz -Carlton and helps you understand via marketing fundamentals why designing and managing services are of utmost importance.
The document discusses Air France's history and use of internet marketing strategies. It provides details on the company's mergers and growth. It also discusses the travel industry's early adoption of e-commerce and how search engine marketing works. Key strategies discussed for Air France include using both branded and unbranded keywords, focusing on targeted keywords, and partnering with aggregator and metasearch websites to increase reach.
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McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and LearningDisha Ghoshal
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- New digital entrants like Airbnb have disrupted the hospitality industry with a more agile, customer-centric approach.
- Accor is undergoing a digital transformation, shifting from an asset-heavy model to a more dynamic, mobile-first organization. This includes streamlining the customer experience, implementing an agile IT structure, and creating an ecosystem of partners.
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1971 in Dallas, Texas. It has a strong organizational culture focused on values like family, equality, dedication, and fun. The CEO, Herb Kelleher, fostered an informal, transactional leadership style where he treated employees like family. Southwest utilizes selective recruiting and training to socialize new employees into the culture. It has been successful in capturing value through high customer satisfaction driven by happy employees and a competitive low-cost business model that has been difficult for competitors to copy.
Culinarian is a cookware brand that aims to provide high quality products with advanced technology. In 2006, its strategic priorities are to widen its network, increase market share, and preserve its brand image with a revenue growth target of 15%. While a sales manager supports offering price promotions to boost awareness and engagement, the CEO believes it could harm the brand image based on negative results from 2004 promotions. The document considers pros and cons of price promotions versus alternative promotional strategies like cash back schemes and cooperative advertising to meet growth targets while maintaining a premium brand image.
Cineplex Entertainment is a major movie theater chain in Canada that was formed through mergers and acquisitions. It controls around 64% of the box office market but faces challenges from piracy, streaming, and other entertainment options. The company wants to launch a loyalty program to gain more customer data and perform better segmentation. Marketing director Sarah Lewthwaite must choose a partner, design rewards and promotions, and prove the program's value. She is considering partnerships with Scotiabank or Flight Miles and must determine the best approach.
Tanishq - Positioning to capture Indian womans heart - Marketing Management...Abbas Dhuliawala
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The hospitality industry is shaped by key trends including the importance of brands, technology, emerging markets, sustainability, and human capital. By 2015, social media will be integrated in travel decisions, mobile technology will enable greater customization and loyalty, and sustainability will increasingly influence consumer choices. Hotels must understand generational needs, embrace social media, invest in talent, and upgrade technology to engage consumers in this evolving industry.
Siebel System: Anatomy of a Sale, Part 1Anant Lodha
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Gregg Carman's job was to serve financial services clients in the New England region, including FleetBoston, Siebel's largest client. Carman was negotiating a $2.1 million deal with Quick & Reilly, a stockbroker acquired by FleetBoston. After the acquisition, Carman had to decide whether to continue supporting Quick & Reilly or focus on FleetBoston's wishes. The document discusses Siebel's goals, products, partnerships, and approach to ensuring customer satisfaction. It also evaluates Carman's interactions with potential customers from Quick & Reilly.
The document discusses the Microfridge product, which combines a refrigerator, freezer, and microwave. It is targeted at institutional living situations like colleges, military bases, and hotels/motels. The main markets in 1994 were colleges (55% of revenue), military (25%), and motels (18%). Microfridge faced medium competition but had patent protection. It acquired another company and replaced refrigerators with Microfridge units. While using two suppliers reduced costs, it created compatibility issues. Microfridge planned to focus on new "home away from home" products, rapidly increase sales, get $4M in equity, and repay debt to withstand future competition. Recommendations included innovating for new markets, focused product development, and exploring new
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There are four main types of pricing strategies from which Atlantic Computers canchoose. First, Atlantic Computers could stay with the status quo and offer software tools for free. Second, it could choose competitive based pricing. Third it could choose from Cost-plus pricing. Finally, it could choose value-in use pricing.In addition to determining which pricing strategy to use, Atlantic
Dana Wheeler is preparing recommendations for The Fashion Channel's new segmentation and positioning strategy to strengthen its competitive position against main rivals Lifetime and CNN. Three scenarios are suggested: 1) Targeting multiple segments including Fashionistas, Planners & Shoppers and Situationalists with a 20% rating increase but 10% CPM decrease. 2) Targeting just Fashionistas with a 20% rating decrease but 75% CPM increase and $15M in new programming. 3) Targeting Fashionistas and Planners & Shoppers with a 20% rating increase and 25% CPM increase requiring $20M in new programming. Scenario 3 is estimated to generate the highest net income of $168.8M
This document discusses a case involving Culinarian Cookware considering a price promotion. Donald Janus, VP of Culinarian, and Victoria Brown, Senior Sales Manager, debate the effects. While Janus is concerned it may hurt the brand image, Victoria believes it will boost awareness. The document provides market details on cookware from 2002-2007 and Culinarian's product lines, competitors, sales patterns, and research findings. It poses two problems: whether to run a price promotion in 2007 and if so, which products and terms. It recommends running a promotion, citing past sales increases, and focusing on their professional line promoted through celebrity chefs to maintain brand value while boosting sales.
- Apex Corporation is facing problems with its organizational structure including informality, lack of structure and financial planning, and increasing customer complaints.
- The document evaluates changing to a circular, functional, or divisional structure.
- It recommends a divisional structure to improve accountability, budgeting, planning and focus on financial targets while balancing control from upper management and freedom from lower management.
Loreal in China: Strategies for the Yue Sai BrandAnkit Sen
油
L'Oreal acquired the Chinese skincare brand Yue Sai but has faced challenges in effectively positioning and marketing the brand. Some key issues include an uncertain business model, reduced brand visibility, and lack of motivation among L'Oreal employees in China. To address these, the document recommends that L'Oreal associate its name more closely with Yue Sai to increase brand awareness and customer acceptance. It also suggests strengthening promotions utilizing Chinese social media and traditional Chinese medicine values, while exploring new product categories and markets.
Dave Carrol, a musician traveled in United Airlines and finds his Guitar being broke due to poor cargo handling. The case tells about the events that followed and how United Airlines responded back and the customer service that was given to Dave and how he responded back.
This presentation gives you an insight into the world of The Ritz -Carlton and helps you understand via marketing fundamentals why designing and managing services are of utmost importance.
The document discusses Air France's history and use of internet marketing strategies. It provides details on the company's mergers and growth. It also discusses the travel industry's early adoption of e-commerce and how search engine marketing works. Key strategies discussed for Air France include using both branded and unbranded keywords, focusing on targeted keywords, and partnering with aggregator and metasearch websites to increase reach.
Business simulation game a new path to management education (v 1.2)Ganesh S
油
This document summarizes business simulation games offered by Campus Levers to provide experiential learning. It describes 11 games that simulate different business functions and teach skills like strategy, marketing, finance, operations and change management. The games can be used at various experience levels and industries. They integrate concepts like demand forecasting, pricing, and cash flow management to give participants real-world business decision making practice.
McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and LearningDisha Ghoshal
油
As part of Strategy execution, this presentation on was on how McKinsey & Company flourished throughout the years by Managing Knowledge and Learning diligently.
- Accor is a global hotel group founded in France in 1967 with 27 brands and over 4,900 hotels worldwide.
- New digital entrants like Airbnb have disrupted the hospitality industry with a more agile, customer-centric approach.
- Accor is undergoing a digital transformation, shifting from an asset-heavy model to a more dynamic, mobile-first organization. This includes streamlining the customer experience, implementing an agile IT structure, and creating an ecosystem of partners.
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1971 in Dallas, Texas. It has a strong organizational culture focused on values like family, equality, dedication, and fun. The CEO, Herb Kelleher, fostered an informal, transactional leadership style where he treated employees like family. Southwest utilizes selective recruiting and training to socialize new employees into the culture. It has been successful in capturing value through high customer satisfaction driven by happy employees and a competitive low-cost business model that has been difficult for competitors to copy.
Culinarian is a cookware brand that aims to provide high quality products with advanced technology. In 2006, its strategic priorities are to widen its network, increase market share, and preserve its brand image with a revenue growth target of 15%. While a sales manager supports offering price promotions to boost awareness and engagement, the CEO believes it could harm the brand image based on negative results from 2004 promotions. The document considers pros and cons of price promotions versus alternative promotional strategies like cash back schemes and cooperative advertising to meet growth targets while maintaining a premium brand image.
Cineplex Entertainment is a major movie theater chain in Canada that was formed through mergers and acquisitions. It controls around 64% of the box office market but faces challenges from piracy, streaming, and other entertainment options. The company wants to launch a loyalty program to gain more customer data and perform better segmentation. Marketing director Sarah Lewthwaite must choose a partner, design rewards and promotions, and prove the program's value. She is considering partnerships with Scotiabank or Flight Miles and must determine the best approach.
Tanishq - Positioning to capture Indian womans heart - Marketing Management...Abbas Dhuliawala
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油
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The document discusses key hospitality trends for 2015, including:
1) The growing importance of loyalty programs, social media, mobile technology, and sustainability.
2) Emerging markets like China and India will see major growth in tourism and demand for hotels, but local brands still dominate the mid-market sectors.
3) Technologies like mobile apps, keyless entry, and voice recognition will increasingly be integrated into the hotel room experience. Hotels need to improve their digital offerings to keep up with consumer demands.
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Hilton Hotels identified key problems such as a lack of technological innovation, weak IT infrastructure, and an inability to maintain relationships with valuable customers. To address these issues, Hilton implemented several technology-based solutions including Hilton OnQ, a CRM system called Customer Really Matters, and call centers. The CRM system and other technologies helped Hilton improve customer service, increase revenue, and gain a competitive advantage over rivals by facilitating personalized service and transparent customer feedback. However, the large costs associated with implementing and maintaining these technologies posed challenges to their adoption.
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IHOP chose Oracle Customer Data Hub and Oracle Teleservice solutions to improve its knowledge of customers. The Oracle solutions helped IHOP centralize customer data, improve data quality, synchronize data across the business, and gain better customer insights. This allowed IHOP to provide better customer service, drive more revenue from customer interactions, and reduce service costs. The solutions addressed management, organization, and technology dimensions by building on IHOP's business foundations, tracking projects, and implementing the solutions using Java on IHOP's IT infrastructure.
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2) This has changed the skills needed for hotel executives, who must now focus on branding, marketing, technology, and building customer loyalty through experiences.
3) High turnover rates among hotel managers are a problem, suggesting disruptions have increased stress, though some firms have created environments where employees feel committed and want to stay.
Hilton Hotels was founded in 1919 and was the first coast-to-coast hotel chain in the US. It now has over 4,000 properties across 91 countries. Hilton offers various brand types from luxury to extended stay. It has over 30 million members in its loyalty program. Hilton aims to provide high quality experiences for business and leisure travelers. It faces competition from other major hotel chains but maintains advantages through its global scale and consistency across brands.
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9 essential competencies of platform marketing 11 22 2015Andrew Leone
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Digital Customer Experience Strategies Summit | New York | September 24th & 2...Thomas Barnes
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Protect your reputation, profits and ensure customer loyalty. Design digital customer experiences that engage your customers anytime, anywhere.
Creating a unified and personalized customer experience across channels is pivotal to any modern business strategy. Given the proliferation of digital channels, companies need to strategize how best to use digital channels that reconcile business and brand objectives with customer needs.
Develop an action plan to make customer-centricity in this digital age a core element of your companys daily operations. Collect best practices to track your customers experiences and optimize the performance of your digital projects. Source the right tools and develop key processes to prioritize your digital investments and identify areas for improvement that will maximize your ROI.
Benchmark your company against internationally recognized digital customer experience programs and interact with cross-industry leaders in interactive Q&A sessions. Digital has the power to innovate and it is here to stay; you do not want to be behind the curve.
Your next step this conference!
Implement 10 key digital customer experience best practices / solutions / strategies:
1. Incorporate customer centricity to align your operational processes
2. Improve your digital CX performance with actionable data analytics
3. Manage social conversations effectively
4. Create digital experiences to secure customers over your fastest growing channels
5. Increase engagement and deliver value through mobile
6. Leverage digital innovations to drive customer experience
7. Align business objectives with customer needs
8. Deliver consistent omni-channel experiences
9. Benchmark your success to uncover new opportunities
10. Capitalize on digital channels to increase conversion
7. 1919
Founded by
Conrad
Hilton
1964
The Hilton
Hotels
Corporation
Is formed,
and
becomes
the first
hotel company
to be listed on the
NYSE
1954
Conrad Hilton
buys
Statler Hotel,
which at the
time was
the largest
real estate
deal ever
1969
The first
Double-tree
hotel
opens in
Scottsdale,
AZ
1984
First
Embassy
Suites
opens in
Kansas City, MO
Same year
first Hampton Inn
opens in
Memphis, TN
1990
The
Hilton
Garden Inn
brand
makes its
debut
2005
Hilton
Hotels
Corporation
reacquires
Hilton
International
2007
Hilton
completes
merger with
the Blackstone
Groups real
estate and
corporate
private equity
funds
8. Expansion Strategy
Hiltons Core Business
Franchising & Alignment with
Real Estate owners is the only feasible
vehicle for fast growth in the capital-intensive
lodging industry
9. 4600 Hotels, resorts and
timeshare properties
Rooms
100 Countries and territories
Hiltons Core Business
One of the largest and fastest
growing hospitality companies
in the world
75800
50000000Members
13. Hiltons Core Business
S W
T O
Recognizable brand name
Diversified Portfolio
Low Market Share
Weak Management
Competitors: Marriot
The individuation of consumer choice
Downturn in business travel
Digitization and use of technology
Innovation in Customer Services
Dynamic growth in emerging markets
The Customers Really Matter
17. Hilton OnQ CRM
Focused on Hiltons four categories
of Best Guests
Fostering a closer relationship with
best guests throughout their lifecycle
Recognition, Personalization and
Customer analytics
18. Segment customers
Segment sub brands offer
corresponding needs for each group
Segment strategies
Segmentation General Introduction
19. Interaction frequency best show this customers
potential value and roughly predict future cooperate
possibility
Check-in Times recognize the most likely loyal
customers
Online system engagement easy to promote to
Customer Value recognize the most profitable
customers
Segmentation
Customer segmentation Principles
20. Less than
1 Million
1.6 Million
23 MillionHiltons four categories of Best Guests
&
Segmentation Customers
The 8 million active members of the Hilton Honors program
4+: Individuals who stayed 4+ times per year
Fast Rez: Individuals who signed up for an online reservation account
Local VIPs
21. Three main brands:
Homewood Suites
- upscale, yet casual, all-
suite residential-style
hotel brand.
- Target Customers:
Traveler who want to live
in a homelike
environment while
traveling
Hilton Garden Inn
- Highly functional and
innovative facilities hotel
with warm and attached
staffs
- Target Customers: smart,
productive and
practical traveler
Hampton Inn
- casual, comfortable,
personalized brand that
has sincere connection
with every customer.
Highly value customer
satisfaction.
Segmentation Sub brands
23. Knowing the customer
in person with all the
information includes
name, recent
attainment. Make
customers feel being
recognized and being
welcomed.
Customize the
customers personal
needs. Giving them
what they really require
but not just service in a
general level by
collecting information
both in advance or
inner hotel.
Personalization Recognition
Supporting strategy.
Making sure Hilton can
quantify the customer
data and make quick
reactions.
Customer Analytics
Segmentation Strategy
24. Delivering CRM Promise
Recognize guests at
the reservations
center
Print the Best Guests
arrival report every
morning
The Satisfaction and
Loyalty Tracking
(SALT) survey
Pre-assign guests
to rooms and
ensure that
the rooms were
appropriately
prepared
according to guest
preferences
25. Evaluate Hilton CRM
99.4% of Hilton
Hotels Brand
Portfolio
creates more
profits than
competitors by
2007
To sum up, Hilton CRM is successful!
Hilton Hotels Brand Portfolio (September 2007)
Hilton CRM ensures
the rapid expansion
and customer
services delivery
26. Limitations
1. Information transfer accuracy
Hilton has a large scale in franchise,
and the customer information was not
integrated and easily available. Since
the information system is not totally
automatic, there will be a challenge to
obtain all needed information
accurately.
27. 2. Hard to measure
CRM can be measured but it will be hard to be exact. Unlike quantitative figures, CRM
can be measured from both internal and external sides roughly through various channels.
Limitations
31. Financial Statistics
REV PRF NPR
IHG STARWOOD HYATT MARRIOTT HILTON ACCOR
2014 Hotel Industry Financial Statistics
32. Net Profit and
Growth Rate
Net Profit Growth Rate
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Financial Statistics
33. Efficiency
Call Center Data Net Revenue per Call Conversion Ratio
2001 $73.09 38%
2002 $77.64 39.1%
2003 $84.39 40.9%
2004 $85.57 41%
2005 $90.30 40.9%
2006 $99.29 41.5%
2007 $102.55 41.4%
Source鐚from the case
34. Customer Satisfaction
With a score of 78 points out of a possible 100, Hilton took the leadership
position
--ACSI( American Customer Satisfaction Index), 2006.1
As the data shows, Hilton Worldwide led the
industry this year with a score of 80, two
points ahead of nearest competitor Marriott
International (78)
This is the fifth consecutive year Hilton has
either held sole ownership or shared the
Hotels industry lead, according to ACSI data.
-- By Forrest Morgeson and A.J. Singh
Source鐚from the case
35. Further Investment
Customer Services Efficiency
Customer Satisfaction
Customer Loyalty
Profit
Competitive Industry
38. 1. Since the information system is not totally
automatic, there will be a challenge for
information transfer accuracy.
2. The program costs a lot in operation:
93
Million
Total
Cost
hardware and
infrastructure
implementation
application
development
40
Million
53
Million
Solution to strengthen:
Optimize the information transfer
structure, improve the joint process
between automation and manual work,
execute it consistently and flawlessly
across the network and reduce the
management costs as well.
Challenges:
Recommendation
39. 2.Utilize data to to improve Hilton CRM
Classic web
Browser, Email, links
WEB 1.0
Social web
Wiki, Blogs, interactive
WEB 2.0
Web of Data
Any media, any place, any device
WEB 3.0
43. 1. Attract more new and potential customers to get involved by
social media brand promotion.
2. Keep and increase customer loyalty
Collect customers diverse comments to track the performance
of current customer service.
3. Improve guest personalized experience by analyzing data.
Use data to personalize and provide a list of options within
Hilton's capacity.
Recommendation
BIG
DATA
44. Recommendation
4. Integrate all the data resources from different
social media channels to help improve individual
customer value management.
Integrate customer value more effectively.
Multi-channel provides more options for information
acquirement and enlarge customer engagement
45. MOBILE AS NECESSITY
A user-friendly mobile site and/or seamlessly
integrated mobile brand app are quickly
becoming table stakes for luxury hotel
brands.
84% of Luxury Hotel brands now offer a
mobile- optimized site experience on
smartphones (up from 59 percent in 2014).
MOBILE
APP
46. Recommendation
1
Add Read Reviews function
to enhance interactions with
users and collect customer
comments.
Add online videos to optimize
customer experience
Improve Self-operated app HHONORS to satisfy
customer needs and improve customer experience.
Source: Luxury Hotels 2015 (Digital IQ Index)
47. Recommendation
2
Strengthen the cooperation with online travel mobile apps
Attract more potential customers and create new customers.
Increase more channels to enhance brand influence.