The continuous and rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) influenced the operations and services provided by the banking sector. Many financial institutions adopted the “customer is king\queen” strategy by changing their business environment, making use of various types of ICT to their relationship with their customers. One of the major new trends is the concept of ...

After a brief presentation of the aspects regarding the planning of a customer relationship management (CRM) project, we emphasize the factors that assure the success of such an approach. In order to obtain the attended results, an organization needs the best selection of the project manager and the most efficient teamwork, which implies employees from the company’s departments and also IT spec...

Background and Objectives: Today’s world is customer-oriented and customer is the foundation of major activities of firms. The aim of the present study was to rank factors affecting the establishment of customer relationship management (CRM) in the hospitals of Medical Sciences in Tehran.Methods: A total of 290 managers of hospitals of Tehran University o...

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 ...

The purpose of this study is the feasibility of customer relationship management implementation from employees and managers' perspective of Melli bank in Esfahan city by using structural equation modeling (SEM). This study is applicable in terms of purpose and descriptive –survey in terms of method. The sample population of this study was employees and managers of Melli bank in Esfahan city in ...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one important application for e-business. Two important factors influencing CRM performance are: customer profiles and customer participation. The result of this experimental study demonstrates that the use of customer profiles improves the customers’ perception of the quality of goods and increases the effectiveness of Customer Relationship Management ...

We  deal with the relationship termination problem in the context of individual-level customer relationship management (CRM) and use a Markov decision process to determine the most appropriate occasion for termination of the relationship with a seemingly unprofitable customer. As a particular case, the beta-geometric/beta-binomial model is considered as the basis to define customer beha...

In most industrial Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) communication with customers is conducted exclusively by marketing, sales and service. Nowadays those business units apply Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems to systematically gather information for the operational support of customer processes. Several studies illustrate that in the respective processes a vast body of addi...

Collaboration among companies is a major development in business and electronic business concepts. While groupware, teleconferencing or e-mail-systems are widespread and crossfunctional in nature, support for collaboration in business processes has mainly been studied in the engineering and supply chain area. Virtual organizations and networked business also require collaboration in customer-or...

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...