Available online 22 January 2009 The firm's customer relationship management (CRM) system is frequently a central element of the knowledge management function of the firm. It integrates information from internal and external sources to guide managers and field personnel in the development and presentation of the firm's value proposition. But despite the widespread adoption of CRM systems by fir...

according to several reports, in spite of huge investment on customer relationship management (crm), risk of implementing such projects is high. one of failure factors is having no method to assess crm success comprehensively. nowadays, classic financial methods are common ways for assessing marketing and crm initiatives. but, the mentioned models are unsuitable to assess investments like crm t...

Customer relationship management ( Customer Relationship Management, CRM ) and knowledge management ( knowledge management, KM ) are currently hot research fields. Knowledge of customer relationship management is to support the activities of the enterprise customer relationship management. Enterprise CRM activities consist of a series of activities. But there is a big gap in knowledge, So this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both customer relationship management (CRM) and electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) systems have unique characteristics that support customer-business interactions and are linked to internal business processes and systems across different areas for operational and analytical purposes. Such characteristics may imply that different critical success factors are required for both to ...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has been becoming first issue in marketing strategy. By implementing CRM, company could generate better profit, because CRM could increase customer retention, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. However, implementing CRM is not an easy task. Adopting CRM into any organization is a challenge. The existing CRM adoption framework is still no longer to...

Proponents of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) suggest that a firm can develop a value creation relationship, such that an increase in customer value, leads to an increase in firm value (Mithas et al., 2005). The value for the customers comes from the provision of goods and services that match their needs. However, the research to date on using e-CRM systems to both foster and monitor thi...