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Customer Relationship Management
CRM1 - 18.09.2012

What is Customer Relationship Management?
“CRM is the core business strategy that integrates internal processes and functions, and external networks, to create and deliver value to targeted customers at a profit. It is grounded on high quality customer related data and enabled by information technology.”
Type of CRM
Strategic
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Dominant characteristic
Strategic CRM is a core customer-centric business strategy that aims at winning and keeping profitable customers.

Operational
Analytical
Collaborative

Operational CRM focuses on the automation of customer-facing processes such as selling, marketing and customer service.
Analytical CRM focuses on the intelligent mining of customer-related data for strategic or tactical purposes.
Collaborative CRM applies technology across organizational boundaries with a view to optimizing company, partner and customer value. Customer Centricity and Other Businesses
• Product-oriented businesses believe that customers choose products with the best quality, performance, design or features.
• Production-oriented businesses believe that customers choose low-price products.
• Sales-oriented businesses make the assumption that if they invest enough in advertising, selling, public relations (PR) and sales promotion, customers will be persuaded to buy.
• A customer or market-oriented company shares a set of beliefs about putting the customer first. It collects, disseminates and uses customer and competitive information to develop better value propositions for customers. A customer-centric firm is a learning firm that constantly adapts to customer requirements and competitive conditions.
Is it all about SERVICE ?
•The non-material equivalent of a good
•Economic activity that does not result in ownership
•The product is the act of delivery
A service is:
• Intangible
• Variable
• Perishable
• Are difficult to evaluate
• Are assessed based on experience and credence
Traditional

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