customer is felt more and more. Today organizations can't make it faraway without giving attention to their customer's needs. For this purpose organizations try out many concepts which can help them be leader in managing their customers. One such concept is the Customer Relationship Management (CRM). CRM has come a long way since its inception in business circles and its major change is felt in...

Whilst our knowledge of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems continues to evolve, there is still much to learn. This paper offers some relatively rare insights on the use of CRM systems and the strategic impact on the processes of intermediation and disintermediation in order to improve customer service. This researchwas conducted fromApril 2007 to2008using an interpretative case stud...

Despite much IS research on customer relationship management (CRM) and respective (critical) success factors (SFs), CRM initiatives are still subject to high failure rates. One reason may be that many studies rather exclusively deal with a technological and project perspective and thus focus on CRM-related IT systems and their introduction. As a consequence, no holistic perspective on CRM in th...

In today’s competitive scenario in corporate world, “Customer Retention” strategy in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is an increasingly pressed issue. Data mining techniques play a vital role in better CRM. This paper attempts to bring a new perspective by focusing the issue of data mining applications, opportunities and challenges in CRM. It covers the topic such as customer retention, ...

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a combination of people, processes, and technology that seeks to provide understanding of customer needs, to support a business strategy, and to build long-term relationships with customers. Successful utilization of the integrated technology requires appropriate business processes and organizational culture to adequately address human behavioral elemen...

The advent of internet has led to the application of electronic services in enhancing the customer relationship management. E-CRM integrates IT in internal organization in executing the marketing strategies. The current issue facing the E-CRM is determining the number of customers that are responsive to the e-commerce application. Furthermore, a huge number of customers are continuously becomin...

Frameworks and fragmented evidence of factors leading to success of customer relationship management (CRM) are available in past research. However, there is little comprehensive understanding yet of the initiatives necessary for deriving organizational benefits from CRM systems. Apart from customers, CRM systems also embrace environmental factors that extend beyond organisational boundaries. Th...

In recent years, e-Business has emerged as a mainstream business practice. Engaged in highlycompetitive Internet -enabled markets, many business organizations have turned to customer relationship management (CRM), a computer -based information system that allows them to gain greater insight into their customers’ needs, to gain a competitive advantage. Consequently, CRM has risen to become a key...

The customer relationship management (CRM) system has been touted as a primary tool for supporting frontline employees’ personalized services tasks. Although a number of studies have highlighted the critical role of CRM systems in organizational performance, the link between CRM systems and individual work performance is still under investigation. In order to fill this research gap, the current...

Customer involvement in product and service development (CIPS) is recognized as important for firms; yet the role of Information Technology (IT) in facilitating CIPS is understudied. We examine two enterprise technologies which improve knowledge available to decision makers: Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). While CRM provides transactional information and k...