La competencia en la industria del retail es cada vez más fuerte, por lo tanto los esfuerzos en marketing deben ser eficientemente utilizados para lograr diferenciarse del resto. Bajo este marco, es fundamental implementar estrategias apuntadas a fortalecer la relación con el cliente. Una de las herramientas más utilizadas para lograr relacionarse y entender a los consumidores, son los “programas de lealtad”. Éstos, a través de premios luego de repetidas compras, buscan incrementar la fidelidad de los individuos con la firma. A pesar del objetivo claro, su efectividad aún está en debate. Los costos y complejidad de los programas sumado a la dificultad de medir el beneficio que éstos aportan, hacen de ellos una herramienta con resultados inciertos. Formar alianzas con empresas de diversos rubros, ha sido la tónica de los clubes en Chile en los últimos años. De esta manera el programa se vuelve más atractivo aumentando la gama de opciones de acumular puntos. Sin embargo, éstas traen consigo costos, tanto operacionales como de marketing, y las externalidades en el resto de las alianzas no han sido estudiadas con detención. En la presente Memoria de Título se trabaja con una importante cadena nacional de tiendas por departamento, la cual posee un programa de fidelización en torno a su tarjeta de crédito, que cuenta con más de cien empresas asociadas. Mediante el uso de la metodología de data mining CRISP y de modelos lineales, el objetivo es medir el impacto del ingreso de dos alianzas en particular al programa de lealtad mencionado. El primer caso corresponde al ingreso de una empresa nacional de “Home Improvement”. Luego de identificar 11 grupos de comportamiento de compra distinto, es posible apreciar tres reacciones por parte de los clientes afectados (40% del total) ante la entrada de la nueva empresa: clientes que manifiestan sinergia negativa (17%), otros que no modifican su comportamiento previo (48%) y por último aquellos que presentan sinergia positiva (35%). Los resultados indican que luego del primer año de ingresada la nueva firma, el 17% de las ventas se explican por la compañía entrante. El otro 83% ocurre en las demás firmas, sin embargo un 5% de éste es producido por la sinergia positiva creada por la nueva alianza. El segundo caso en estudio corresponde a una importante cadena de farmacias, competidora directa de la firma existente. No se logra identificar sinergias como en el caso anterior. El enfoque está dirigido a medir el impacto que genera en el rubro farmacéutico. El 11% de los clientes se ve afectado por esta nueva alianza. Se concluye que luego del primer año, más de la tercera parte de las ventas realizadas en la nueva firma se hubiesen realizado en la farmacia ya existente (canibalización). Dentro de las principales conclusiones se aprecia que baja la tasa de deserción de clientes de la tarjeta al ingresar una nueva alianza. Debiera existir control de gestión sobre los distintos rubros del programa. Hay aspectos de la canibalización que pueden ser estudiados en detalle en futuras investigaciones tales como el cupo de la tarjeta y el hecho de que el club sea cerrado.

Abstract This study examines communication through the mobile medium in customer relationship management (hereafter mCRM). Although the academic research on mCRM is gradually evolving, there is still a lack of empirical research on this topical issue. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to begin to fill this gap by enhancing the theoretical and practical understanding of mCRM. The empirical part of the study is conducted as a qualitative case study. Seven Finnish companies utilizing the mobile medium as a communication channel in CRM were selected for the empirical analysis. Interviews, observations and personal experiences gained within those companies form the main sources of data. The main theoretical contributions of the present study to existing academic literature are as follows. First, the study proposes the conceptualization of the focal phenomenon of the study, mCRM, and further elicits the salient characteristics of it. Second, following the conceptualization, the study focuses on communication as the core of the interaction between the company and the customer via the mobile medium. Accordingly, the study sheds light on the key elements of the communication process within mCRM and its various phases. Third, the study founds a theoretical framework for mCRM; identifying the customer relationship management, mobile commerce and communication literature streams that define mCRM theoretically. Fourth, the study elaborates on the specific role of the mobile medium as a channel within CRM and highlights the ways in which it differs from all other channels within the multichannel CRM environment. Although mCRM communication has an inherent potential to benefit both company and customer, it has been utilized quite cautiously to date. This is rather surprising given that, compared to other channels, the mobile medium has an exceptional ability to reach people. In addition, greater utilization of the mobile medium could save time and money. This is because many face-to-face encounters could easily be replaced by communication through the mobile medium. The study offers guidelines on aspects ranging from the initiation of mCRM to actual communication through mCRM. Hopefully, the findings of this study will encourage managers, regardless of industry, to consider whether their company could provide added-value of any kind through the use of the mobile medium to benefit their customer relationships.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore how stores in the retail sector and in business to consumers´ relations, are engaged in the CRM systems use and management. The purpose is also to see if the information that is gathered by the headquarters is transferred down to the stores.   The research follows a realistic philosophy combined with an abductive approach and a qualitative method. The choice of design to this research was an exploratory research combined with a case study strategy over a cross-sectional time horizon. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with managers in the six different retail stores.      The findings from this thesis showed various results when it came to the use of the CRM system and the amount of information that the stores got access to from the headquarter/partner. None of the stores managed their CRM systems themselves, it was only managed by the headquarters or partners of the retail chains. The amount of information that was transferred down from the headquarters or partners, affected how much the stores used the CRM system. The stores that got much information had more knowledge about the CRM system and used it a lot more than stores that got less information.   The limitations that can be found in this thesis is that it is only a small amount of stores within the retail market that has been examined, this might give a misleading result for the rest of the retail market and the global market as whole.

Aim: This paper aims to explore and to understand how the E-CRM affects customer satisfaction and trust from customer perspectives in electronic commerce. Method: The research is an exploratory and qualitative study. A multiple case study involving 3 Swedish companies with 12 face-to-face interviews in Gävle, Sweden, was chosen to collect the empirical data for this study. Data were coded by hands and structured in the form of tables in accordance with 7 codes categorized in 2 themes. Coded data were interpreted to investigate the research questions by using the inductive method. Result & Conclusions: This study found that live chat and e-service quality in E-CRM directly affect how satisfied a customer feel with a company in e-commerce, thus affecting trust as well. However, the findings also showed that not all customers could perceive all the effects of E-CRM on their satisfaction and trust.   Suggestions for future research: Other features such as electronic word-of-mouth, internet branding or internet prices are suggested for the future research to have an in-depth understanding of E-CRM effects. Future studies may combine data from both company and customers to increase the validity and reliability. Furthermore, the population of samples could be collected in others cities or countries than in Gävle, Sweden to generalize the result more. The contribution of the thesis: This study contributes knowledge about E-CRM effects in Swedish e-commerce. Some differences related to existing theories were found in this research such as the effects of gender on trust or effects of prices on relationship building. Understanding the customer perspectives on E-CRM effects enables companies to have a proper E-CRM implementation and training for their organization and employees.

Social media is a rapidly rising phenomenon, providing new opportunities for consumers and businesses to communicate and share information. The development of social media has allowed for customer relationship management (CRM) to extend its area of use, coining the now common concept social CRM. Social CRM allows for new levels of interactivity between companies and consumers, however the effectiveness of social CRM is uncertain in many areas, mainly due to it being hard to tie customer interaction in social CRM to tangibles for the company. One of these areas is customer acquisition, where there are difficulties for companies to see how actions in their social CRM efforts affect customer acquisition. Being able to reach out to customers in an effective way is not enough for companies to acquire a customer. The value the company is proposing also has to be attractive for the customer, to be considered. There are several attributes that a company has to consider for its value proposition, in order for it to be successful. Depending on the industry the attributes can have different weight, emphasizing that companies should know what customers in their industry value. For this reason, having better knowledge of what customers value than the competition, thus having a stronger value proposition, grants a competitive edge. The purpose of this research project is to provide better understanding of how to conduct social CRM, while at the same time investigating how value propositions of telecom companies can be improved, to eventually increase customer acquisition. In order to fulfill the purpose, extensive literature has been evaluated, in addition to data gathered in focus groups. Three focus groups were conducted in Luleå, Sweden, with a total of 18 participants of ages 20-30. The results of the research project point towards the customer being in charge of social CRM interaction with companies, meaning companies have to adapt their social CRM strategies to fit the customers’ desires. The social customer have high demands of privacy in social media, which implies a thin line companies have to walk to convey their message, while at the same time not intruding on the customer’s privacy. The findings also indicate that customers want high flexibility, simplicity, and trustworthiness from telecom companies’ value propositions, emphasizing companies to adapt their value propositions to meet these demands.

Diploma thesis deals with software in small and medium enterprises (SME). Main objective of this thesis is find out which software and enterprise information system companies use. Theoretical part is focused on ERP, CRM, SCM systems and application software. Analytical part deals with investments of czech SME in software and ICT equipment. Practical part is dedicated to quantitative survey and evaluation of results.

Presented master thesis deals with the issues of analysis of the Sales representative's effectiveness in conjunction with the effectiveness of regions severance, methods of evaluation and remuneration. The thesis will also outline company's usage of CRM software from the perspective of Sales representative and Sales Analyst. Theoretical part contains findings from CRM, profession of Sales representatives and methods of evaluation and remuneration. These finding will be exemplified on international pharmaceutical company. The aims of this thesis are suggestions and recommendations which are targeted to increase effectiveness of the Sales representatives and CRM software.

The focus of this thesis is an identification and analysis of problems which have occurred till now in the cooperation between two chosen organizations, followed by problem solution proposals. Methodology of two sociologists Charles H. Kepner and Benjamin B. Tregoe will be used to undertake this analysis. The thesis is divided in two parts, theoretical and practical. The aim of the theoretical part is to define the various concepts that will be used in this work, such as the Kepner-Tregoe methodology or definition of a problem. The practical part is oriented on the analysis of the cooperation of the chosen organizations and the problems that have occurred with the use of the mentioned methodology. The purpose of the thesis is to propose possible solutions and chose the most appropriate.

My diploma work is about philosophy of CRM which is connecting tools for good quality customer care, insists on propriety and process efficiency, quality of staff and usage of IT technologies for recording all important facts which can have impact on relationship. Because of this is implementation of CRM suitable for health care as well. In my work deal with rules of process funciton CRM to activity of private gynecologist clinic. My aim is improve relation between company and consumer.

The purpose of this diploma thesis is the fact that Ceska sporitelna a.s. doesn't succeed in fulfilling of the standard to solve 80 % of client feedback by 24 hours. The goal of this diploma thesis named "Quality improvement in client feedback process in Ceska sporitelna, a.s." is to define problem spaces of the client feedback process which are necessary to improve. At the beginning there is an explanation of some terms which are connected with a quality. Consequently there are mentioned certain methods of continuous improvement such as PDCA, Six sigma and so on. In practical part there is described contemporary client feedback process, they are introduced results of my own research and suggested ideas for improvement.