The concept of customer relationship management (CRM) resonates with managers in today's competitive economy. As more and more organizations realize the significance of becoming customer-centric in today's competitive era, they embrace CRM as a core business strategy. CRM an integration of information technology and relationship marketing provides the infrastructure that facilitates long-term r...

Examination of alliance formation and management in the context of ‘fit’ or alignment with individual partner’s organisational strategy, administrative systems, and managerial characteristics still remains unexplored. This conceptual paper argues that the success of alliances depends on the ability of the partners to strategically match/align resources, capabilities, compatibilities and the man...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the key practical factors that confront global businesses as they attempt to improve all aspects of their operations including emerging areas of the customer experience. The paper focuses on the way various organisational capabilities such as information systems/information technology have been adopted in order to provide an enhanced operational...

High levels of investments in IT and related products and services by firms over the last several decades produced only mixed results. Research shows that one of the most significant determinants of successful IT investments is the alignment between IT and the competitive strategies of a firm. Yet it is largely unclear to both researchers and practitioners how to achieve such alignment in the c...

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a customer-focused business strategy that dynamically integrates sales, marketing and customer care service in order to create and add value for the company and its customers. This change towards a customer-focused strategy is leading to a strong demand for CRM solutions by companies. However, in spite of companies interest in this new management model,...

Entity matching is a crucial and difficult task for data integration. An effective solution strategy typically has to combine several techniques and to find suitable settings for critical configuration parameters such as similarity thresholds. Supervised (trainingbased) approaches promise to reduce the manual work for determining (learning) effective strategies for entity matching. However, the...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study investigated the influence of the completeness of CRM relational information processes on customer-based relational performance and profit performance. In addition, interaction orientation and CRM readiness were adopted as moderators on the relationship between CRM relational information processes and customer-based performance. Both qualitative and quantitative...

Customer centricity has long been a guiding principle for many businesses. However, it is usually limited to marketing existing products with as strong a customer focus as possible. Corporate strategy remains basically product-centered. Customers typically have a fractured view of an enterprise. Conversely, the enterprise has only a splintered view of the customer, determined by different custo...

The processes performed by strategic sourcing professionals have evolved beyond sourcing initiatives to include supplier relationship management and continuous category-based opportunity assessment. This comprehensive set of processes is best described as "Category Lifecycle Management" or CLM. Enterprises that understand and leverage CLM in its broadest sense will gain a strategic edge over th...