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...

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...

To build a clear understanding of the management of the technology and organizational elements of CRM systems, this research tries to form propositions based on literature findings and experts’ experiences to explain (1) the elements of the technology and organizational sides of a CRM system, and (2) how the technology and organizational elements interrelate to create effective CRM operation. T...

Although CRM is one of the fastest growing management approaches being adopted across many organizations and particularly tourism and hospitality firms, the deployment of CRM applications has not always delivered the expected results while many CRM initiatives have failed. Consequently, the inability of CRM applications to deliver expected benefits has not only intensified the validity of previ...

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 ...

background and objective: p53 is a suppressive gene that plays a key role in dna repair and apoptosis. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of p53 protein over-expression and some clinicopathological factors on the esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (scc) response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. patients and methods: in this retrospective cohort study, 44 patients with loca...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and knowledge management, have some important issues, in particular, related to lack of success of CRM strategies implementation. Much CRM writing focuses on technology applications, but the critical role of knowledge management is now beginning to be recognized. CRM is definitely related to the discipline of knowledge management thus, the existence of suf...

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems in business are a reality of the contemporary business world for the last decade or so. Still, there are grey areas regarding the successful implementation and operation of CRM systems in business. This paper, through the systematic study of the CRM implementation paradigm, attempts to identify the most important challenges and opportunities that t...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is getting more and more a key strategy for companies big and small. Customer care strategy and CRM software go hand in hand. In particular SME’s need a CRM software that easily adapts to their customer care needs while still being low cost. In this paper I discuss the benefits of CRM for SME’s and their special requirements wrt. CRM software. Further, I i...