Customer relationship management (CRM) refers to a firm’s activities for establishing and maintaining relationships with its customers. Outsourcing refers to a firm’s contracting with another firm to perform activities that were erstwhile performed within the firm. The emergence of a low cost, high speed, global communication network and information processing network has enabled an increasing ...

The following research report presents the results of studies on CRM solutions and proposes a new approach to overcome identified limitations of CRM implementations. This paper is based on work that has been carried out in a EU founded project on innovative solutions to improve the management of customer relationship and complements previous research of the =mcminstitute in this field. Derived ...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) represents a technological application based on the philosophy of Relationship Marketing and it recommends the interaction with high value consumers. Relating CRM to new social technologies, CRM 2.0 or social CRM deals with the relationship between companies and customers using online platforms. Through a comparative study based on qualitative indicators, ...

Purpose – This study seeks to extend the resource-based view to the context of customer relationship management. It is intended to develop a measurement model of customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities, and to explore the key antecedents and performance consequences of CRM capabilities. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaire survey was used to collect data. In order to develop ...

Background and Purpose: Social customer relationship management (social CRM) is an emerging concept that integrates traditional CRM and social media in order to provide benefits for organizations and customers. Despite the benefits that social CRM can bring, many organizations are still at the early stage of adoption. To move beyond social marketing and to exploit opportunities offered by sales...

PURPOSE Simulation-based learning is increasingly used by healthcare professionals as a safe method to learn and practice non-technical skills, such as communication and leadership, required for effective crisis resource management (CRM). This systematic review was conducted to gain a better understanding of the impact of simulation-based CRM teaching on transfer of learning to the workplace an...

In this paper, application of the rough set theory (RST) to feature selection in customer relationship management (CRM) is introduced. Compared to other methods, the RST approach has the advantage of combining both qualitative and quantitative information in the decision analysis, which is extremely important for CRM. Automated decision support for CRM has been proposed in recent years. However...

Over the past 10 years, a number of studies have pointed out that many e-CRM projects fail to deliver the expected benefits. In the business-to-business e-CRM market, many customers have faced issues with technology implementation, management of organizational change, and/or e-CRM effectiveness. However, none of these studies mentioned PeopleSoft. In fact, PeopleSoft’s e-CRM has been a best-of-...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System is very important to enhance healthcare services, improve cost-effectiveness, and accessibility of the healthcare. Therefore, study of the adoption of the CRM in healthcare at organizational level is necessary to identify factors that influence the CRM adoption. Hence, this study aims at proposing an extended adoption model of CRM systems in Malaysi...