Yes / The much debated relationship marketing paradigm suggests that the marketing strategy should try to develop long-term and mutually rewarding customer relationships, rather than simply focusing upon the promotion and selling of products and services and electronic CRM software, is often promoted as the ideal mechanism for implementing relationship marketing, on a company-wide basis. However, it has not been empirically demonstrated that the application of e-CRM software produces these benefits. This study develops a conceptual framework, which models the links between relationship marketing and e-CRM, and uses it to explore the outcomes of the adoption e-CRM applications by a sample of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), operating in the mail order sector. The key findings, presented in this paper, are twofold: the driver for e-CRM adoption has primarily been the need to integrate the front and back offices; when operating in an increasingly complex multi-channel environment, and consequently, e-CRM hasn¿t delivered the anticipated benefits of relationship marketing such as customer retention or ¿share of pocket¿.

The purpose of this case study is to determine if there are any under- or overrepresented industries in CRM case studies. CRM stands for customer relationship management and can be applied as a system to help the sales manager in an industry to control the activities and their customers. CRM enable long-term relationships with customer and to retaining key customer. The top findings in this case study is that the hotel industry is by far the leader of CRM case studies and therefore the overrepresented industry. The underrepresented industries when it comes to amount of CRM case studies is the digital content industry, retailing industry, pharmaceutical industry and the telecommunication industry. The conclusion in this case study is that all the service industries are dependent on the CRM-systems and therefore a lot of case studies have been composed about the subject. Another conclusion is that that CRM-systems cannot be ignored by any industries since the economy is customer orientated.

[pt] Este trabalho estuda o caso de uma empresa do varejo farmacêutico e suas preocupações com a implantação de um sistema de CRM – Customer Relationship Management. O mercado de varejo farmacêutico no Brasil conta com mais de 60 mil farmácias e drogarias. Este é um cenário de competitividade acirrada, no qual a busca de vantagem competitiva, por meio da implantação de um CRM, exige estratégias e ações cuidadosamente elaboradas. Este estudo identifica ações usuais ao CRM e analisá-las sua pertinência às peculiaridades e dimensões de uma empresa de grande porte no cenário competitivo do varejo farmacêutico nacional. O método elege a empresa DPSP S/A da qual obtém dados por meio de consulta a documentos internos e entrevistas com dirigentes. Os resultados mostram quatro áreas de preocupações da empresa para a formulação de um plano de CRM: Identificação e Classificação de Clientes; Benefícios para os Clientes; Gestão de Benefícios e Gestão de Relacionamento. Os resultados incluem uma análise detalhada dos elementos de cada área à luz das considerações feitas pelos dirigentes; mas revelam que a importância do CRM está concentrada apenas na cabeça dos líderes, quando deveria fazer parte da cultura de toda a organização. / [en] This paper studies the case of a company in the retail pharmacy and their concerns with the implementation of a CRM - Customer Relationship Management. The retail pharmaceutical market in Brazil has more than 60,000 pharmacies. This is a tough competitive scenario, in which the pursuit of competitive advantage through the implementation of a CRM requires carefully designed strategies and actions. This study identifies the CRM usual actions and analyze them their relevance to the peculiarities and dimensions of a large company in the competitive landscape of the national retail pharmacy. The method chooses the company DPSP S / A which gets data by querying the internal documents and interviews with officials. The results show four areas of concern to the company to formulate a plan of CRM: Customer Identification and Classification; Customer Benefits, Benefits Management and Relationship Management. Results include a detailed analysis of the elements of each area in the light of the considerations made by the directors, but reveal that the importance of CRM is concentrated only in the head of the leaders when it should be part of the culture of the entire organization.

Atualmente, um dos grandes desafios enfrentados pelas empresas que operam no comércio eletrônico é de garantir a fidelidade de seus clientes. Devido a este fato, as empresas têm se preocupado cada vez mais na utilização de uma ferramenta capaz de integrar os dados distribuídos em banco de dados operacionais, para transformar suas informações em diferencial competitivo. Desta forma, a aplicabilidade da ferramenta Data Warehouse no comércio eletrônico, juntamente com a estratégia do Customer Relationship Management (CRM), surge como um elemento central da empresa focada no cliente, pois é capaz de fornecer informações competitivas e essenciais aos responsáveis pelas decisões estratégicas. Assim, através da ferramenta Data Warehouse sustentada pela estratégia de CRM, toda a \"sequência de cliques\" realizada pelos clientes do comércio eletrônico é armazenada historicamente, possibilitando a retenção destes com a empresa. Portanto o objetivo do presente trabalho é analisar a aplicabilidade do Data Warehouse no comércio eletrônico, visando o CRM analítico. O trabalho contribui também para mostrar às empresas que a integração entre tecnologia de informação (Data Warehouse) e marketing (CRM) em um ambiente Web oferece diferentes oportunidades de coleta de dados a respeito dos clientes, promovendo desta forma a personalização de produtos e serviços, garantindo maior lealdade destes com a empresa e, conseqüentemente, maior lucratividade. / Currently, one of the greatest challenges faced by companies that operate in the electronic commerce is to guarantee their customers\' fidelity. Due to this fact, these companies have been considering the employment of tools capable of integrating distributed data onto operational databases in order to transform information into a competitive and distinguishing asset. Thus, the applicability of Data Warehouse tools in Electronic Commerce, together with the strategy of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), appear as a key element for customer-oriented companies, since they are capable of supplying the ones responsible for strategic decisions with competitive and essential information . Hence, through Data Warehouse tools supported by the CRM strategy, all the \"clickstream\" carried out by the customers in electronic commerce, can be historically stored, making it possible, through further analyses, to identify potential customers, as well as keeping them with the company. The objective of the present research is to consider the applicability of Data Warehouse in Electronic Commerce, aiming at the analytical CRM. The research also shows companies that Data Warehouse, when combined with the CRM in a Web environment, offers alternative means for customer-related data collection, thus, providing the customization of products and services, reassuring clients\' loyalty to the company and, consequently, greater profits.

Organisations are becoming increasingly aware of the necessity to maintain sustainable long-term relationships with customers in order to survive in the global competition. They are also aware that the changing needs and purchase patterns of customers requires them to choose differentiated customer-oriented marketing strategies so as to acquire a competitive advantage over their rivals and enhance their business performance. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) enables organisations to create and manage relationships with customers more effectively through a detailed and accurate analysis of consumer data using various information technologies. Several CRM theories like the resource-based view (RBV), and theories of institutions, cultures, entrepreneurship, and dynamic theory can help a company gain over competitors. If implemented appropriately, the CRM approach can help a firm with managerial efficiency, cost reduction, enhanced customer services, and increased sales and profits. The present study aims to develop a novel and comprehensive model to measure the effect of CRM resources over CRM capabilities and the effects on business performance. The present study covers infrastructural and cultural CRM resources with CRM capabilities. The results are based on information collected from three Kuwaiti mobile network operators using a questionnaire in adherence with ethical guidelines. The study measures business performance comprehensively from financial and marketing perspectives using regression analysis to determine if there is a mediation role between two variables. The results show that CRM infrastructural resources positively and directly affect CRM capabilities. However, the effect of customer and learning orientation cultures on CRM capabilities is considerably stronger than that of infrastructural resources. The study also reveals that CRM capabilities significantly and positively affect business performance from marketing and financial standpoints although the effect on marketing performance was stronger.

Současné přístupy k řízení inovace CRM v nedostatečné míře akcentují řízení hodnoty portfolia vztahů se zákazníky. Přestože CRM lze dnes považovat za jednu z klíčových podnikových strategii, je podceňována role CRM jako významné složky integrovaného řízení podnikové výkonnosti. Tomu odpovídá i absence vhodného modelu pro hodnotově orientované řízení inovace CRM. Dochází tak často k nesprávnému nastavení strategií a priorit inovace CRM a následně i problematickému řízení vlastních přínosů CRM. Primárním cílem této disertační práce je přispět k rozvoji teoretické základny hodnotově orientovaného řízení inovace CRM a umožnit její následnou aplikaci v podnikové praxi a to právě prostřednictvím navrženého modelu (HOM).

<p><strong>Title: </strong>Register now and stay in touch – a study about the relationship between CRM-system and business performance.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The purpose with the study is to identify if there is a positive relationship between CRM-system and business performance in Swedish multinational companies in the industrial sector.</p><p><strong>Audience: </strong>This essay is addressed to the Swedish multinational companies in the industrial sector.</p><p><strong>Methodology/ Approach /<strong> Design: </strong></strong>We have applied a qualitative method, with a deductive approach. Through an in-depth interview with the case company Benzlers AB, which provided the empirical basis, supplemented with the CSI-values.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study has presented evidence, that there is a positive relationship between CRM-system and business performance which has been confirmed by the positive increase in the CSI-value after the implementation of the CRM-system.</p><p><strong>Originality/ Value<strong>/ Contribution to <strong>knowledge</strong></strong> </strong>The study contributes with its own results that fill in the knowledge gap about the subject in Sweden. The study finds that the CRM-system effectives the interaction with the customer and thereby business performance increase, with the CSI-value as unit. This therefore increases the value and importance of investigation of Swedish multinational companies, whose purpose is to satisfy the customer and at the same time, increase the business performance.</p><p><strong>Future research: </strong>For future research we suggest publishers to base the empirical basis through additional in-depth interviews with added case companies. In order to confirm the relationship between its validity in the industry, and also indentify what happens between inputs and outputs, which leads to increased business performance.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Customer Relation Management (CRM), CRM-system, customer satisfaction, business performance, Customer-Satisfied-Index.</p><p><strong>Thesis type: </strong>Business economy 61-91, Bachelor essay, Marketing (15 credits), spring 2010^th.</p> / <p><strong>Titel: </strong>Register now and stay in touch – en studie om sambandet mellan CRM-system och företagsprestation.</p><p><strong>Syfte: </strong>Syftet med studien är att identifiera om det finns ett positivt samband mellan CRM-system och företagsprestation i svenska multinationella företag, verksamma inom industribranschen.</p><p><strong>Publik: </strong>Denna uppsats riktar sig mot svenska multinationella företag inom industribranschen.</p><p><strong>Metodik/ Ansats/ Design: </strong>Vi har tillämpat oss av en kvalitativ metodansats, med ett deduktivt angreppssätt. Genom en djupgåendeintervju med fallföretaget Benzlers AB tillhandahålls det empiriska underlaget som kompletteras med NKI-värden.</p><p><strong>Slutsatser: </strong>Undersökningen har framlagt bevis för att det finns ett positivt samband mellan CRM-system och företagsprestation vilket har påvisats genom den positiva ökningen av NKI-värdet efter implementering av CRM-systemet.</p><p><strong>Orginalitet/ Värde<strong>/ Kunskapsbidrag</strong></strong> Undersökningen omfattar egna bidrag med resultat som fyller en<strong> </strong>kunskapslucka inom ämnet i Sverige. Undersökningen konstaterar att CRM-systemet effektiviserar samspelet med kunden och därmed ökar företagsprestationen, med NKI-värde som måttenhet. Därav ökar värdet och betydelsen av undersökningen för svenska multinationella företag vars syfte är att tillfredsställa kunden och samtidigt öka företagsprestationen.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Framtida forskning: </strong>Inför framtida forskning ger vi förlag på att basera det empiriska underlaget på fler djupgående intervjuer med fallföretag. I syfte att bekräfta sambandet och dess validitet i näringslivet, och även identifiera vad som sker mellan input och output vilket därmed leder till ökad företagsprestation.</p><p><strong>Nyckelord: </strong>Customer Relationship Management (CRM), CRM-system, kundtillfredsställelse, företagsprestation, Nöjd-Kund-Index.</p><p><strong>Uppsats typ: </strong>Företagsekonomi 61-90, kandidatuppsats, Marknadsföring (15 hp), VT 2010.</p>

Frågeställning: På vilket sätt används CRM av Handelsbanken och hur påverkar det bankens lönsamhet? Syfte: Syftet med detta arbete är att kunna öka kunskapen om hur Handelsbanken tillämpar CRM och för att undersöka om användandet av CRM i bankens verksamhet är lönsamt eller inte. Metod: För att svara på studiens syfte blev en intervju utförd med Handelsbanken. Ännu en anledning till varför en intervju gjordes var på grund av att det var nödvändigt för att få det primärdata som behövdes och för att förstå hur banken använder sig utav CRM. Information blev även hämtat från olika källor såsom litteratur, internet och databaser. Slutsats: Slutsatsen med detta arbete är att Handelsbanken har gynnats av att använda sig utav CRM och att fördelarna är fler än nackdelarna då det inte finns några nackdelar med Handelsbankens användande av CRM. CRM skapar alltså lönsamhet och är något som banken bör fortsätta använda sig utav i framtiden då det gynnar företaget positivt. / Research question: In which way does Handelsbanken use CRM and how does it affect their profitability? Purpose: The purpose of this study is to increase the knowledge of how Handelsbanken implements CRM and to examine if the implementation of CRM is profitable or not. Method: An interview with Handelsbanken was performed in order to answer the purpose of the study. Another reason why an interview was performed was because it was necessary to obtain primary data and to understand how the bank uses CRM. Information was also obtained by searching through different sources such as literature, internet, and databases. Conclusion: The conclusion of this study is that the use of CRM has been in favor for Handelsbanken. The bank has obtained more advantages than disadvantages using CRM because the bank has not experienced any disadvantages at all. The conclusion is therefore that CRM creates profitability and it is something that Handelsbanken should continue to use because it affects the company in a positive way.

Purpose: The analytical purpose of this thesis is to link theory on how business processes should be designed to strenghten customer relationships, with empirical data on what these processes presently look like. The empirical purpose is to formulate a CRM strategy for Volvo Penta. This will be done by analyzing how the current processes of the company are designed and what limitations and possibilities the market characteristics offer. Method: A triangulated research method with focus on qualitative interviews is used in the form of in-depth, face-to-face interviews. Thirteen such interviews have been conducted with representatives of different departments within Volvo Penta. Findings: The empirical data has brought several findings on what needs to be done and thought through in order to optimize a CRM-strategy. One such finding is that Volvo Penta does not have thorough directions on how their processes and customers should be approached. Another important finding is that the level of cross-functionality within the processes is too low.

<p>Managing customer relations had become a necessity for companies who want to succeed in today’s customer oriented market. New systems are developed that allow firms to manage and govern their relationships to the customers. These applications are called Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems and have become one of the most widely adopted business solution in the private sector. In the mean time, mobile internet and mobile marketing have become two of the most popular subjects mentioned in business literature today.</p><p>A new system that combines CRM and mobile technologies has recently been developed: mobile CRM (mCRM). This type of system will allow companies to enhance their way of working with customer relations and enables new ways of offering value to customers. The market size of mCRM systems has grown from a $120 million industry in 2001 to a $1, 7 billion industries in 2005. The combination of the growing trend of customer focus, mobile technologies and mCRM systems will most likely lead to more companies investing in mCRM solutions. Still an interesting question of the reasons behind mCRM adoption remains unanswered. The main focus of this thesis is to find out why companies chose to adopt or not adopt mCRM systems.</p><p>Theories about CRM, mCRM and the spreading of technology (The Technology Acceptance Model) have been gathered and examined in order to support the research. After a gained insight of the subject matter, a methodology is discussed explaining research approach. A qualitative approach is used and interviews are conducted in order to find barriers and facilitators to mCRM adoption. Four companies from different industry sectors where interviewed, answering to questions concerning their level of IT adoption, CRM strategy and perception of mCRM.</p><p>The research resulted in several reasons for mCRM acceptance and rejection. The primary reason for investing mCRM, or considering investing in mCRM, was found to be the need to reach customers and sales force anytime and anywhere. Also, current IT adoption and IT dependency, as well as industry sector, are found to influence attitude towards mCRM. Factors that are found not to affect mCRM adoption are size of the firm and external pressure from the market. The overall perception of mCRM is positive among the respondents and all believe that the mobility aspect of CRM will become increasingly popular.</p>