Customer Relationship Management (CRM) as Innovation: Taking Care of the Right Customers

Author(s):  
Jan Mattsson
2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-228
Author(s):  
Regina Jasilionienė ◽  
Rima Tamošiūnienė

Customer relationship management (CRM) has been increasingly adopted by companies as the core of IT – driven business strategy and firms have started to invest in CRM. However, the rate of successful CRM implementations is about 30%. Many enterprises pursue expensive CRM initiatives without first understanding of the challenges and costs involved. This approach often results in CRM projects that fail to meet measurable benefit objectives. Evaluating costs and benefits associated with CRM systems acquiring and implementation and applying financial measurement methodologies can help a company make the right CRM investments solution and build a compelling justification for its CRM project. Return on investment (ROI) financial measurement methodology, its theoretical and practical aspects are analyzed in this study. Authors of this paper provide a detailed list of CRM cost categories, which can assist an organization to easily calculate its CRM system acquisition and ongoing spending. Also the authors of this paper present survey results of CRM system costs and investment efficiency evaluation in Lithuanian companies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Diah Tri Wahyuni ◽  
Tacbir Hendro Pudjiantoro ◽  
Asep Id Hadiana

Anna Salon Spa is a beauty care business or service that provides various kinds of treatments. Primary data were obtained from interviews with Anna salon spa employees, while secondary data used library sources and research results and data collection techniques used interview, observation and documentation techniques. In this study, problems were found such as the difficulty in determining customer loyalty, the difficulty in calculating the cost optimally, the difficulty in conducting transaction recapitulation because there may be data missing or not being calculated correctly because Anna Salon Spa is still recording the data in the ledger. In addition, another problem that arises is the delivery of promotions that take more time because they have to send the same message one by one to customers or via Instagram and Facebook. The method uses the calculation of the actual value of service quality by comparing the value of customer perceptions with the value of customer expectations and expressed in percent, this method aims to determine the extent of service performance and measure customer satisfaction. To solve this problem is to build an information system with a web-based customer relationship management (CRM) approach that provides input to the applications used by Anna Salons Spas so as to provide comfort and satisfaction for customers and can help provide better, timely information systems. , and is accurate and recommends the right service so that it benefits the company. The use of service quality methods in this study is to know the value and measure customer satisfaction through the questionnaire given to customers.


2011 ◽  
pp. 291-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minna Pura

Building a brand in the fragmenting media environment is a challenging task. Advertising should be integrated and personalized, it should utilize different channels, and reach the customer at the right place, at the right time, through the right channel, and in the appropriate context. Mobile advertising should be used as a means of creating value to the customers and serving the customers better. This paper gives an insight into the practical possibilities and pitfalls of mobile advertising as a brand building and customer relationship management tool. The case study describes how mobile advertising can be used to get the youth target group to give information about themselves to the company, and how this information can be utilized for future customer relationship management. The effectiveness of mobile advertising in a cross media context is analyzed through conversion and loyalty measures.


Author(s):  
Irma Suryani ◽  
Fadila Andini ◽  
Ricky Firmansyah

Aplikasi Customer Relationship Management (CRM) adalah salah satu dari aplikasi Teknologi Informasi yang merupakan aplikasi strategi bisnis untuk memilih dan menjaga customer, dapat mengoptimalkan nilai jangka panjang, dapat menyimpan filosofi customer centric business dan budaya untuk mendukung efektifitas marketing, sales dan proses servis. Membangun aplikasi Customer Relationship Management (CRM) yang baik harus mengikuti prosedur proyek yang benar yaitu didahului dengan pembuatan proposal untuk menguraikan semua keperluan yang akan diimplementasikan pada pembuatan aplikasi dimaksud. Pada penulisan ini penulis meyusun proposal Aplikasi Customer Relationship Management untuk Xyz BodyCare yang diuraikan secara rinci tentang Ruang lingkup aplikasi yang akan dibangun (Scope), fungsi-fungsi yang akan dibuat yang digambarkan dengan Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), jadwal pelaksanaan , sumber daya , rencana biaya , analisis risiko dan bentuk perubahan manajemen bila aplikasi tersebut siap dioperasikan. Proposal ini diharapkan mampu memberikan masukan untuk membangun aplikasi Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tersebut dan akan diusulkan pada Xyz BodyCare untuk dapat dipakai dan diterapkan. Kata kunci: Analisa Proyek Sistem; Customer Relationship Management; CRM; Sistem Informasi; Xyz BodyCare Abstract: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Application is one of the application in IT wich is as the bussiness strategy to choose and keep customer, and it can optimize long Term value, it can save the philosopy of customer centric bussiness and culture to support the effectivity of marketing , sales and the process of customer service. Building the good aplication of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) should follow the right procedure project, which preceded by making the proposal to devide all stuffs that implemented and connected to the process of making the aplication. In this text writer arrange the proposal of application in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Xyz BodyCare which devided in detail about the scope of the application that built. The funtions that will be created described by the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), the schedule, the source, the cost, the analysis of the risk, and the form of management change when the application is ready to operate.This proposal expected to be able to provide input to built the application of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and will be prosposed to Xyz BodyCare to be used amd applied. Keywords: System Project Analysis; Customer Relationship Management; CRM; Sistem Informasi; Xyz BodyCare


2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 74-93
Author(s):  
Menaouer Brahami ◽  
Mammar Adjaine ◽  
Khalissa Semaoune ◽  
Nada Matta

The motivations for a company to adopt Knowledge Management (KM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems can be very varied, which brings an additional complexity to the adoption decision. It is important to understand the main drivers of KM and CRM adoption so that companies can better target their performance indicators. However, the influence of KM on organization performance in hotel industry has received less attention. In addition, the relationship between CRM technology and hotel performance is still ambiguous. In the right context, this paper tends to bring attention to the influences of KM and CRM to improve hotels performance. It presents and discusses the main findings of a study undertaken among a sample of large hotels Algerian, identifying and discussing the main motivations for KM and CRM systems utilization and adoption in order to improve hotels performance. A survey of 80 hotels executives was conducted on hotels operating in the Algeria west territory. In short, the results of this study may help these businesses to effectively use KM and CRM, so as to improve hotels performance and subsequently create a sustainable competitive advantage.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-213
Author(s):  
Adi Lukman Hakim ◽  
Mega Barokatul Fajri ◽  
Erna Nur Faizah

The Covid-19 pandemic demands that businesses go digital. Not only products must be marketed through technology, but the way of communication with consumers must also be arranged systematically to stabilize income. Among a number of tools designed to answer customer retention demands, CRM software was chosen because this tool can accommodate consumer data, business data, track consumer interactions, and track company prospects. The purpose of this activity is to conduct training and assistance in implementing Customer Relationship Management in increasing sales during the pandemic. This method uses a descriptive qualitative approach with training design in using Customer Relationship Management software. Instruments in the form of learning experience and literature study. This community partnership program involves business start-ups within the Muhammadiyah University of Lamongan, especially students majoring in Accounting and Management. The results of this study indicate that the application of CRM has an effect as an effort to increase business sales during the pandemic with a series of strategic CRM processes, operational CRM, analytical CRM. Essentially, both upper, middle, and even lower customers need good and quality service, it's just that the levels are different. When start-up actors apply the right and good CRM, it will automatically increase customer satisfaction which has an impact on increasing business sales.


Author(s):  
Tedy Herlambang

Customer relationship management (CRM) has been the favorite topic of scores of marketing consultants and academicians for over a decade. CRM approaches marketing as dating in which the marketer attempts to turn strangers into friends and friends into lifetime partners and to retain the loyalty of the right customers for this is the key to long-term profits in a company. Gender theories posit that women and men behave differently, and that they approach things differently. Moreover, these theories have documented a picture of women are being more expert and motivated relationship psychologists than men, as more active in their relationship monitoring, and as more oriented toward the maintenance and success of their relationships. Based on these theories, this paper develops some propositions to facilitate its empirical testing related to relationship communication and relationship dissolution in business market. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it attempts to create more insight into areas where relationship marketing research to date has not been abundant. Second, this paper attempts to contribute to methodological development of measuring relationship success by systematically distinguishing between good communication relationship and good management relationship.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Wiyanto Wiyanto ◽  
Fajar Butsianto ◽  
Karsito Karsito

Information technology is rapidly developed in this century that impact to various aspects of the organization really need information technology to support the performance and everyday business processes. In health services, information technology is required to process and storage the patient medical records, so that the patient's medical record is well preserved, and competitive advantage can be obtained between patient and polyclinic. The application of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) approach can be developed by implementing information system of medical record history to get new patient and retain existing patient, improving relationship with patient and maintaining patient loyalty as well as supporting the company/organization to provide excellent service to customers in real time through the advantage of information technology. The aims of this research are to understand patient medical record by CRM approach and Unified Modeling Language (UML) for system design, system validation using Forum Group Discussion (FGD), and using software testing Model ISO 9126. The result of this research are Medical Record History Information System and the result of system validation with FGD is 100% accepted, the result of system test using Model ISO 9126 is good with success rate 82,86%, so it can give contribution to polyclinic.


2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 417-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajo Hippner ◽  
Stephan Martin ◽  
Klaus D. Wilde

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