Helping businesses to

Achieve Success

We help you get the most out of your CRM system so you can improve efficiency and drive profitable growth. We do this by truly understanding your business, then seamlessly connecting your strategy, people and technology. This commercial acumen matched with technical expertise is what makes us different.

Lee Nightingale MD

We’re different from most CRM consultancies because we don’t jump straight into suggesting a techie solution.

Is Your Business CRM Ready? β€” Connecting Business
Assessment Tool

Is Your Business CRM Ready?

Discover where your organisation stands on 10 key areas that make or break CRM success.

Question 1 of 10
🚩 Failure Point: No Executive Sponsorship
Is there a named senior leader actively championing your CRM project?
CRM implementations succeed when executives actively back the project β€” not just fund it. Without visible leadership commitment, adoption falters and the project drifts.
Question 2 of 10
🚩 Failure Point: Vague Success Criteria
Have you defined clear, measurable goals for what success looks like?
Projects that haven't answered "What does success look like?" tend to drift indefinitely. You can't build a CRM strategy or justify investment without concrete goals.
Question 3 of 10
🚩 Failure Point: End Users Not Consulted
Have the people who'll use the CRM daily been involved in requirements gathering?
When users aren't asked what they need, you build something they won't use. Adoption crashes because the system wasn't designed for the work they actually do.
Question 4 of 10
🚩 Failure Point: Data Quality Issues
Is your customer and business data clean, complete, and consolidated in one place?
Implementing a CRM on top of fragmented or dirty data doesn't fix the problem β€” it scales it. You'll spend months on data cleansing and migration.
Question 5 of 10
🚩 Failure Point: Over-Customisation Before Launch
Are you planning to keep customisation light in favour of adopting the platform's standard workflows?
Heavy customisation before go-live delays projects, balloons costs, and breaks upgrades. The best CRM projects are built on the platform's core functionality.
Question 6 of 10
🚩 Failure Point: No Training Plan
Do you have a structured training and onboarding plan for different user roles?
Sending users a manual and hoping for adoption doesn't work. Without role-specific training, hands-on practice, and ongoing support, adoption flatlines after go-live.
Question 7 of 10
🚩 Failure Point: Platform Not Fit For Purpose
Have you chosen your CRM platform based on process fit, not price or brand alone?
Choosing the "cheapest" or "most popular" CRM for the wrong reasons means you'll fight the platform's design. The right platform amplifies your processes; the wrong one impedes them.
Question 8 of 10
🚩 Failure Point: No Process Mapping
Have your core sales, marketing, or service processes been documented and agreed before CRM configuration begins?
Configuring a CRM around poorly understood or informal processes bakes in the chaos. The CRM should reflect how you want to work, not replicate how things accidentally ended up.
Question 9 of 10
🚩 Failure Point: Unrealistic Budget & Timeline
Is your CRM budget and timeline realistic β€” accounting for data migration, training, change management, and ongoing support?
The licence cost is usually the smallest part. Businesses routinely underestimate the time and cost of implementation, integration, data work, and the months needed to reach genuine adoption.
Question 10 of 10
🚩 Failure Point: No Governance or Ownership Post-Launch
After go-live, who owns the CRM β€” keeping data quality high, managing updates, and driving continued adoption?
CRM projects that succeed at launch often fail six months later because no one is responsible for ongoing governance. Without a named owner and clear standards, the system degrades quickly.

Your readiness breakdown

Want to talk through your results and build a solid CRM strategy? We help businesses get CRM right β€” from platform selection to post-launch adoption and success.

Tom O’Byrne CEO, Great Place To Work, UK

We at Great Place to Work UK found a gem in Connecting Business. Unusually for IT and systems type consultants they not only had the excellent technical skills but also demonstrated very strong commercial acumen.

Sarah Warry Trustee, Latin American Foundation for the Future (LAFF)

Connecting Business have been very easy to work with and available at all times of day to answer questions! We started with a lot of options and questions about which CRM to go for, and they helped us narrow this down and select one that was right for us.

Ben Harris CEO, Decibel Group

Connecting Business is ultimately helping us make a success of Salesforce and is one of our trusted advisers. We highly recommend them.

Richard Gilder, Sales Methods

Lee has a tremendous knowledge and enthusiasm for all matters sales. Combine this with his clear understanding of business process and thorough Salesforce.com know-how and you have a powerful concoction, dedicated to achieving sales excellence.

Sarah Goodchild, Aqua Security

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Lee on a variety of projects that have required his expert knowledge on SalesForce.com and operational process. In all these projects, Lee was instrumental in insuring that it could β€˜work’, providing guidance, ideas and cohesion between the US and EMEA/APAC teams.

CRM systems can deliver an enormous amount of value, but most organisations don’t make the most of their investment.

Our skills cover the whole range of CRM projects, whether it’s building a system from the ground up, customising an existing system, or ensuring all your tech works smoothly together.