Customer Relationship Management: A Strategic Perspective

Over the last decade and a half Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has developed into an area of major significance. However, there is considerable confusion in the academic and managerial literature about what is meant by CRM and how if differs from relationship marketing. Further, despite heavy investment by organizations in CRM, there is extensive reporting of CRM’s failure to achieve anticipated results in the literature. This article reviews the conceptual differences between CRM and relationship marketing and defines these terms. It argues that, in many organizations, CRM failures have occurred through a lack of strategic focus. Key strategic issues are identified. A CRM Strategy Matrix is presented which considers the strategic context of companies and the implications for the development of their CRM strategies. Four alternative approaches towards building customer relationships are identified and migration paths between them are reviewed. Implications for implementing CRM strategy and future research are discussed.

Customer Relationship Management in Electronic Markets

Abstract

Customer relationship management, or CRM, has found increased attention in both the academic and managerial worlds of marketing in recent years. While the Internet has greatly enabled the application of CRM in fostering loyal customers, the preliminary results on the effectiveness and efficiency of technology-based CRM has been far from discouraging. The authors identify various contentious issues behind the various key concepts of relationship management and identify several areas that deserve closer academic scrutiny and managerial inspection. The paper also comments on the extent to which Internet technology can bring about closer relationships with a firm's customers.     

第三方物流导入客户关系管理系统的探讨

客户关系管理系统作用强大,但在第三方物流企业中的应用较少。中国第三方物流企业可从企业的业务模式与运作流程复杂化程度、企业运营架构和流程的改造与适应程度、获取客户信任以及处理客户信息的能力等方面,对导入客户关系管理系统的可行性进行分析,并注意文化观念误区、流程改造困难、企业能力不足等问题,通过确立合理的项目实施目标、转化和调整企业的管理观念、保持顺畅的沟通以及赢得内部各级员工的理解和支持等措施,尽快建立客户关系管理体系,从而确立和巩固在与国外同行竞争中的相对优势。     

饭店客户关系管理的价值链研究

本文从我国本土饭店客户关系管理现状出发,借用波特的价值链思想,深入分析饭店客户关系管理中的基本活动和辅助活动,以寻求能切实有效地提高饭店客户关系管理水平的途径。其中,文章提出了饭店客户关系管理的价值链模型,并对客户关系管理的基本活动中的客户价值分析、客户获取、客户保留、客户升级和客户联盟构建等主要环节进行了详细阐述,同时也分析了辅助活动中包括领导、组织结构、人力资源管理、组织文化和信息技术等在内的相关影响因素。     

CRM中主动利用信息不对称性的客户服务模式研究

应用四种客户服务模式,阐述了客户服务涉及的相关主体、各主体间的信息流以及信息的不对称性,参考前人的相关研究成果,综合考虑企业客户服务流程以及客户服务担负的辅助决策功能,建立了包括虚拟客户服务中心、终端客户、中介组织和管理层辅助决策支持四部分的客户服务模式,以降低企业的综合客户服务成本,提高终端客户、内部客户、服务中介组织以及供应商的忠诚度和满意度。     

关系营销是客户关系管理的核心理念和指导思想

关系营销是客户关系管理的核心理念和指导思想,客户关系管理的核心是客户关系。通过客户关系管理这一过程,企业最大程度地掌握和利用顾客信息,以培养和增强顾客的忠诚度,实现顾客的终身挽留。关系营销与客户关系管理进行有效整合,可以使关系营销理论得到全新发展,也让客户关系管理理论在中国的环境中得到更好的发挥和实现。     

基于企业不同发展阶段的关系营销模式探讨

随着市场经济的发展,关系营销模式正在企业的广泛应用中得到不断发展。关系营销的核心在于保持顾客,为顾客提供高度满意的产品和服务价值,从而建立以客户关系为导向的利润模式,结合企业发展的三个阶段探讨以客户关系为利润导向的发展模式。     

Strategic,Operational, and Analytical Customer Relationship Management

Abstract

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) means different things to different people. For some, CRM is the term used to describe a set of IT applications that automate customer-facing processes in marketing, selling and service. For others, it is about an organizational desire to be more customer focused. Others associate CRM with the capture, analysis and exploitation of customer-related data. One distinction that has been made is between strategic, operational and analytical CRM. This paper sets out to understand, conceptualize and operationalize these terms. Our research generally supports the idea of a multi-dimensional conceptualization of CRM. We develop and present an instrument, consisting of a thirteen-item scale, which can be used to assess an organization's orientation towards one or more of these three forms of CRM.     

基于三维客户分类价值体系的客户关系管理研究

针对基于客户价值矩阵的客户类型划分方法的不足，本文提出三维价值评价体系，除客户价值和客户潜在价值之外，将企业自身相对优势作为第三个变量指标，并通过模糊综合评价判断出各指标的价值高低，借助三维价值体系图，将客户分为八类，同时本文针对这八类客户的不同特征，提出了相应的资源配置及价值提升策略，从而帮助企业培养更强的客户导向意识，引导企业业绩改善的方向。     

Trust,Satisfaction and Loyalty in Customer Relationship Management

SUMMARY

In an attempt to increase customer loyalty amid increasingly competitive business environments, organizations are looking to customer relationship management (CRM) to help provide a solution. In spite of CRM failure rates cited as being as high as 70%, organizations continue to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars on CRM implementations. Attempts of past research to resolve why failure rates are so high have tended to focus on technological factors such as database integration or factors internal to the organization such as system adoption or organizational culture. While these areas are important, reactions of customers may also play a role. This paper uses justice theory to investigate the potential impact that customer involvement in a CRM implementation may have on customer loyalty. Propositions are provided to guide future research.     

论银行业客户关系管理系统的构架与建设

客户关系管理(Customer Relationship Management,CRM)是在计算机与信息网络技术基础上发展起来的一种新的管理思想、管理方法和技术。客户关系管理系统的建立和应用,为企业适应消费者需求的变化、赢得市场竞争优势提供了有效的手段。本文结合银行业的特点,就银行业客户关系管理系统的开发与应用问题展开分析,并对银行业客户关系管理系统的构架进行探讨。     

Case Study of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in the On-Line Affluent Financial Services Market

ABSTRACT

In the current period of constrained economic conditions, this study initiates an analysis of customer relationship management (CRM) on the Web sites of financial service businesses. Customer relationship management is a critical differential that enables competitive edge for businesses focused on the affluent customer market. Though investment in marketing, sales and service innovation is limited under existing conditions, the analysis of the study on large financial businesses indicates that the businesses enable higher commerce, content and context, but lower and generally inadequate communication, community, connection and customization design on their Web sites. The analysis, conducted as an assignment by adult graduate students in an information systems course, contributes important insight into the competitive dynamics of customer relationship management for Web empowered financial service businesses striving to service the demanding affluent market. This study furnishes an expanded framework to research customer relationship management of financial service businesses competing in the paradigm of the Web.     

中式餐饮连锁发展之我见——人力资源及顾客关系管理

近年来,我国餐饮业发展迅速,餐饮品种丰富,店铺数量迅速增加,行业竞争日趋激烈,随着洋快餐的大举进军,一种新的餐饮经营模式——连锁经营逐步受到广大从业者的关注。但总地来说,我国餐饮业连锁经营还处于初级阶段,还存在很多的问题,这些都有待于广大的企业经营者结合中式餐饮企业的自身特点,不断地去解决这些问题,为我国餐饮业谋求更好的发展。     

Building With Bricks and Mortar: The Revenue Impact of Opening Physical Stores in a Multichannel Environment

A crucial decision firms face today is which channels they should make available to customers for transactions. We assess the revenue impact of adding bricks-and-mortar stores to a firm's already existing repertoire of catalog and Internet channels. We decompose the revenue impact into customer acquisition, frequency of orders, returns, and exchanges, and size of orders, returns, and exchanges. We use a multivariate baseline method to assess the impact of adding the physical store channel on these revenue components. As hypothesized, store introduction cannibalizes catalog sales and has much less impact on Internet sales. Also as hypothesized, returns and exchanges increase. Interestingly, transaction sizes of purchases, returns, and exchanges do not change. The “availability effect” produces a net increase in purchase frequency across channels. This more than compensates for increased returns, producing a net increase in revenues of 20% by adding the store channel. Our findings yield a deeper understanding of the revenue relation between channels, and of the dynamic cross-channel effects of marketing actions.     

基于以太网的粮情测控系统的研究与设计

为满足粮食储备企业管控一体化的需求,实现粮情远程监控。提出了基于RTL8019AS网络驱动芯片的以太网粮情测控系统解决方案。进行了测控分机与通信分机的软硬件设计,完成了测控服务器的软件设计。     

复杂产品系统创新中模块化外包的决策与管理研究

外包是企业在实践中十分重要的经营手段,由于复杂产品系统的特殊性,模块外包在开发过程中起到至关重要的作用。本文在分析集成商外包的动因的基础上,探讨了复杂产品系统模块化开发过程、集成商模块化外包决策依据、外包商的选择与管理等内容。     

商业批发企业如何建设实用高效的管理信息系统

EMIS是商业企业谋求21世纪商业竞争优势的一种先进管理手段,商业批发企业在建设企业管理信息系统时应从确定开发目标、设计原则入手,合理设计企业管理信息系统的组成和内容,一些案例说明,建设一个成功的企业管理信息系统,可以为企业带来较好的效益,以适应日趋激烈的市场竞争。