Publication date : 01/08/2024

Course : Customer relations: from customer correspondent to Business Relationship Manager

BRM best practices

Seminar - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. BRM
Price : 1850 € E.T.

Customer relations: from customer correspondent to Business Relationship Manager

BRM best practices



As the company moves into a digital world, service providers are multiplying, the traditional dual role of Research and Operations is disappearing, and a new key function is emerging: the Business Relationship Manager. The BRM establishes the essential strategic and tactical links between the company and its multiple service providers. He or she ensures that service provision will be able to meet business requirements. This seminar describes the role and position of the BRM within the IT department. It provides the concepts and techniques needed to carry out the function.


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Seminar in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. BRM
  2d - 14h00
1850 € E.T.




As the company moves into a digital world, service providers are multiplying, the traditional dual role of Research and Operations is disappearing, and a new key function is emerging: the Business Relationship Manager. The BRM establishes the essential strategic and tactical links between the company and its multiple service providers. He or she ensures that service provision will be able to meet business requirements. This seminar describes the role and position of the BRM within the IT department. It provides the concepts and techniques needed to carry out the function.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Establishing the role of the Business Relationship Manager
Clarify BRM's position as a strategic and tactical partner for the company
Transforming business requirements into service provider specifications
Ensuring that changes are compliant and successful
Maximize value creation through appropriate management of the service portfolio

Intended audience
Information systems managers, project managers and business analysts wishing to strengthen their expertise in the Business Relationship Manager function or move towards it.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of marketing and the components of an information system.

Course schedule

1
Outlook for companies and their information systems

  • The new deal: new IS architectures, Service-Oriented Architecture, Resource Oriented Architecture.
  • Cloud offers (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) Public Cloud, Internal Cloud, Hybrid Cloud (usage, trends, security, management).
  • A 4th industrial revolution, the digital enterprise, industry 4.0, robotics, cobotics.
  • Enterprise architecture: a symbiotic structure for the cybersphere and the enterprise.
  • Service as the atom of enterprise architecture: a value-centric definition.
  • The impact on the organization of the IT Department: the end of the Research-Operations bi-pole, the emergence of new functions.

2
The emergence and key role of the Business Relationship Manager

  • Defining the role of the Business Relationship Manager.
  • The growing importance of the function: the breakdown of the company's value chain and its consequences.
  • Strategic, tactical and operational management: definitions, positioning of the Business Relationship Manager.
  • Skills required at the crossroads of technologies and businesses: strategy, marketing, technical, etc.
  • Manage business relationships at strategic, tactical and operational levels.
  • Assess the maturity of suppliers' offerings in relation to business requirements, and ensure that they match.
  • Organization of the function and distribution of responsibilities within the ISD, definition of the RACI matrix.
  • Standards and best practice guidelines: ISO 20000, ITIL®, CMMI for services.

3
BRM, a strategic and tactical partner for the company

  • Understand how business demands are formed.
  • Master the processes involved in managing strategic relationships.
  • Understanding strategy, modeling the company's ecosystem: Porter's forces model, SWOT analysis.
  • Integrate risk management: types of risk, treatment and formalization of different risks.
  • Understand strategic asset management and innovation trajectories.
  • Understand corporate architecture: where value is created or destroyed.
  • Strategic alignment: defining tactical choices, critical success factors and KPIs.
  • Outsourcing strategies and tactics: subcontracting, cooperation, coopetition? Overview of the e-SCM repository

4
Service portfolio management and value creation

  • Definition of service portfolio and catalog: definitions, scope, interactions.
  • The economic study of services: the service business case, its constitution, its life cycle.
  • Service portfolio management to guarantee value creation.
  • Service creation, priority setting, strategic portfolio balance.
  • Transition of services within business processes.
  • Managing services: creating or destroying value and withdrawing services.
  • Dashboards and value management.

5
Business Relationship Management and Customer Relationship Management

  • Business Relationship Management and relationship marketing: building lasting relationships of trust.
  • Customer Relationship Management: a tool for sharing information between all those involved in service provision.
  • Anticipating business needs: capturing business requirements.
  • Measuring and monitoring customer satisfaction and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
  • Managing customer complaints.
  • Communication: information and organization of reporting.


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REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 12 Mar., 18 June, 1 Oct., 8 Dec.

PARIS LA DÉFENSE
2026 : 12 Mar., 18 June, 1 Oct., 8 Dec.