Chapter 8. Optimizing Business Processes
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing.
—W. Edwards Deming
This is the single most important chapter in the book—what really sets it apart—but it’s likely to be a little abstract. Because most business users rarely think in terms of business processes, this chapter is full of concrete examples explaining how to see the big picture and optimize the way different departments work together via SFDC. The goal is to make SFDC fit into your business in the most natural way possible while upgrading the smoothness, coherence, and efficiency of your revenue and support business processes.
An SFA system could be thought of as a glorified contact manager—but if that’s ...
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