Customer Relationship Management (CRM), a management philosophy that focuses on the nurturing of customer relationships, emerged as a response to decreasing customer loyalty and increasing competition. Implementing CRM is expensive, as it demands high investment in organizational change activities and information technology (IT) and companies thus expect visible, measurable results. But compani...

ustomer relationship management is considered key to organizations' success in today's competitive environment. However, empirical evidence show mixed support to the impact of CRM initiatives on performance. Using the resourcebased view RBV of the firm, CRM is hypothesized as a distinctive capability that can lead to superior business performance. The study proposes four dimensions of CRM capab...

This case study examines the adoption factors surrounding the deployment of customer relationship management (CRM) in higher education institutions. While CRM is widespread in the corporate sector, its usage has been limited in higher education. With the rising service expectations, universities have to realign their strategies to serve students across their entire student life cycle. We used t...

CRM has changed the way companies handle customer enquiries, advertise and sell their products or manage the entire relationship with their customers. As the power of CRM technology has expanded, companies have come to view it as a resource ever more critical to their success in customer management. CRM technology has delivered great benefits to some firms, even propelling a few into positions ...

What is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system? Not only is there little agreement on what it really stands for, there is even less agreement on what constitutes a CRM system, how it should be used, the potential of profitability gain, the impact on customer loyalty, the costs involved, the personnel needed, and the training needed for the CRM personnel. CRM system characteristics are ...

Citrus red mite (CRM) is known as the most common sensitizing allergen in subjects with asthma and rhinitis working on citrus farms. The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of specific IgG1 (slgG1) and specific IgG4 (slgG4) to CRM in citrus farmers. Questionnaire survey and skin prick test including CRM antigen was done by 136 workers. Specific IgE (slgE), slgG1 and slgG4 to CRM were dete...

Mobile technology offers a high potential to significantly transform the ways how a company can interact with their customers and even with own employees. In recent years researchers started to analyze those potentials from the perspective of customer relationship management (CRM) but mainly concentrated on traditional business-to-customer (B2C) relationships. The concept of collaborative CRM e...

This paper presents the definition of a Reference Application Architecture for the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) domain. The definition of the Reference Application Architecture is done by extracting best practices from five CRM commercial solutions: SugarCRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Sage CRM, Oracle Siebel CRM and Salesforce CRM. The CRM Reference Architecture was developed considerin...

BACKGROUND Clinical risk management (CRM) plays a crucial role in enabling hospitals to identify, contain, and manage risks related to patient safety. So far, no instruments are available to measure and monitor the level of implementation of CRM. Therefore, our objective was to develop an instrument for assessing CRM in hospitals. METHODS The instrument was developed based on a literature rev...

The implementation of CRM systems has become very necessary for organizations in order to effectively manage their relationships with the customers. Unfortunately, it has faced various failures in different industries. Besides, the existence of implementation methodologies or frameworks that guide the successful implementation of CRM systems are still lacking. In response to that, this paper ai...