This paper tests a hypothesis about implementing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in a university environment. CRM was designed for private sector companies for the management of customer relationships in the preand post-sales cycles. Our hypothesis is that CRM can be configured to meet the requirements of a university recruiting environment. We tested the hypothesis by actually configuri...

Organizations invest heavily in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems, and their related infrastructure, presumably expecting positive benefits to the organization. Assessing the benefits of such systems is an important aspect of managing such systems. Given the substantial differences between CRM and SCM systems with traditional intra-organizational a...

One of the crucial trends in business is to offer one-to-one personalized services. In this context, companies try to build customer relationship management systems based on the customer social relations and behavioral patterns. The key issue is predicting to which products or services a particular customer is likely to respond. Additionally, identifying peer-to-peer influence on social network...

Customer relationship management (CRM) can help organizations manage customer interactions more effectively to maintain competitiveness in the present economy. As more and more organizations realize the significance of becoming customer-centric in today’s competitive era, they adopted CRM as a core business strategy and invested heavily. CRM, an integration of information technology and relatio...

Modern business organizations have appreciated the significance of having competitive advantage through the delivery of continuous improvement towards the customers, and being knowledge-oriented. Indisputably, Knowledge Management (KM) plays a key role in the success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). In this regard, Customer Knowledge Management (CKM) is a newly developed concept that ...

customer relationship management (crm) and knowledge management (km) have become especial and strategic keys in the current competitive environment for all companies.  the critical role of km as the main determinant of the success of crm has been the focal point of the previous researches; the present paper aimed at studying the impact of different km factors- such as customer knowledge (ck), s...

The emergence of Web 2.0 and Big Data technologies has allowed a new customer relationship strategy based on interactivity and collaboration called Social Customer Relationship Management (Social CRM) to be created. This enhances customer engagement and satisfaction. The implementation of Social CRM is a complex task that involves different organisational, human and technological aspects. Howev...

With the rapid change of business competitive environment, enterprise resource integration and innovative issues of business operation have gradually become the most important issues for businesses. Furthermore, many enterprises have implemented novel information technology and developing the innovative e-business applications systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relatio...

This research evaluates the effect of customer relationship management (CRM) on customer knowledge and customer satisfaction. An analysis of archival data for a cross-section of U.S. firms shows that the use of CRM applications is positively associated with improved customer knowledge and improved customer satisfaction. This article also shows that gains in customer knowledge are enhanced when ...