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The whole world is enjoying the CRM feeding frenzy. Trouble is, most companies are going at CRM like one fish in a school: watching tentatively to see what their equally fishy competitors are doing and then going about CRM work exactly the same way. Or, even worse, they’re implementing one vendor’s version of industry best practices in hopes of minimizing the short-term aggravation, implementation risks, and expense.