Importance Of Customer Relationship Management

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IMPLEMENTATION OF CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT IN SERVICE INDUSTRY Since the beginning of the new millennium, traditional marketing practices have not been effective in yielding good returns. Companies have turned reluctant to spend huge advertising expenditure and marketing research- the potent tool of getting deeper insights of customer has lost its charisma. Due to enigmatic consumer behavior it becomes inevitable for the companies to develop new marketing strategies. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has emerged as a new marketing strategy in that tenor. The 1990s have been a dynamic period within the information systems field. One of the most exciting uses of new technologies has been in the area of Customer Relationship Management…show more content…
To companies, this means fewer barriers to switch and a drastic decrease in customer loyalty (Crosby and Johnson 2000). More companies realize that satisfied customers are one of the most important assets. Business strategy must be defined and resource must be allocated to hold on to customer asset base (Morris 1994).Customer Relationship Management (CRM) information technology systems have attracted great attention. The CRM technology projects are led by information technology at the expense of the overall culture change required to make them work (Maluhan 2002). A survey of 100 large British organizations reveals that while technology is a critical component of most companies CRM strategies, the fundamental of CRM is about building a customer centric organization (Fitzgerald and Brown…show more content…
In the simplest scenario, it may simply mean creating a dynamic Web page to show the customized pricing and products dependent on a customer’s location and status. At the other end of the continuum, CRM may be used to create personalized one-to-one experience that will give the individual customer a sense of being cared for, thus opening up new marketing opportunities based on the preferences and history of the customer (Peppers, Rogers and Dorf 1999). As a measure of the significance of CRM, respondents of a survey conducted by Ernst and Young in 2000 indicated that they plan to increase their CRM spending by 31% in a year where overall technology spending increases are expected to flatten to 8% (Battista and Verhun
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