Jens Buch, Founder, Cartes Blanches

The challenge for us today is more on the understanding of data

The challenge for us today is more on the understanding of data

Nordea Asset Management, is part of the Nordea Group, the largest financial services group in the Nordic region. NAM offers European and global investors’ exposure to a broad set of investment funds. Our team met with Nadège De Biasio, Head of IWD Business Support & Development to talk about their CRM implementation.

Question 1

Why did you decide to implement a CRM?

Why did you decide to implement a CRM?

Our organization has grown significantly in the past ten years and business is moving fast. Implementing a CRM was the solution to best centralize and analyse our sales activities to leverage on to become a staple in the Asset Management Market. Flows of data and information has increased as well with professional social networks and cloud solutions that the challenge for us today is more on the understanding of data sets than on the data collection itself. Evaluate and anticipate the needs to be closer to our clients every day is our routine message and implementing a CRM tool was the best answer.

Question 2

What are the best ingredients to succeed with transformation?

What are the best ingredients to succeed with transformation?

Vision, understanding of clients and technology, good professionals having different expertise, all topped with creativity are the main ingredients to build teams that can face the changes. It is also about willingness and capability to cope with transformation and good collaboration overall to take up challenges.

Question 3

What about the talents? What is the best recipe?

What about the talents? What is the best recipe?

Most of the time, big transformations cannot be done on his own. Indeed, consultants bring their experience and ideas to reach their goals, and sometimes they bring innovative solutions internal teams could not foresee. It is about finding the good balance.

Question 4

What are the main advantages offered by Salesforce in your activity?

What are the main advantages offered by Salesforce in your activity?

Salesforce brings a plethora of solutions that can be connected to each other. Whatever you wish to implement, Salesforce is the good solution to assemble the applications or packages, just like the pieces of a puzzle that evolves with clients, technology and regulations.

Question 5

Why did you choose UpCRM ?

Why did you choose UpCRM ?

We faced a lots of challenges in onboarding professionals with the right competences, therefore we tried to find a company able to propose adequate resources in a very short timeframe. We heard about UpCRM from our Salesforce account manager and after a first interview to understand our needs and objectives, they proposed people that perfectly suit our request. We have a very collaborative approach, we meet on a regular basis to discuss about evolutions and adapt the profiles if need be.

To find out more about about Up CRM’s solutions : Salesforce