Syfte: Anledningen att vi valt CRM som uppsatsämne är att det de senaste åren blivit en trend bland företag att använda sig av detta verktyg. Det som gör ämnet ännu mer intressant är att undersökningar visar att många företag misslyckas i sina försök att implementera CRM. Den svenska banken Swedbank är ett företag som dock borde ha förutsättningar att lyckas. Syftet med denna uppsats att öka kunskapen om CRM genom att undersöka hur Swedbank implementerat och använder sig av CRM. Vi har även haft som ambition att undersöka vilka fördelar implementeringen och användningen av CRM har givit Swedbank. Metod: Utifrån syftet med denna promemoria har vi valt att utföra intervjuer på Swedbank. Syftet med denna typ av analys skapar grund för att få en djupare förståelse om hur intervjuobjekten uppfattar bankens sätt att arbeta med CRM. Källor som vi övrigt använt oss av för att samla in vår data är litteratur och Internet. Resultat & slutsats: Intervjuobjekten beskriver generellt implementeringen av CRM med en positiv ton, vilket återkommer i samtliga intervjuer. Även om korrespondenterna är partiska i frågan är vår övertygelse att svaren återspeglar de verkliga förhållandena inom organisationen. Utifrån den teori som ligger till grund för uppsatsen har vi dragit slutsatsen att Swedbank har lyckats väl med sin implementering av CRM. En annan slutsats är att CRM är mer än ett marknadsföringsverktyg för Swedbank. CRM kan även implementeras för att användas som ett organisations- eller ekonomistyrnings verktyg. Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Eftersom att CRM- systemet uppfattas på olika vis i olika företag är det svårt att få en god bild av det hela genom att endast undersöka ett företag. För att få en bra bild av hur CRM implementeras och används, bör fler företag inom bankbranschen undersökas. Vi tycker också att det vore intressant att undersöka och jämföra CRM- systemet mellan olika kontor inom samma bankföretag. Uppsatsens bidrag: Denna uppsats skulle kunna ligga som ett stöd vid en kartläggning om hur ett företag ska gå till väga då man önskar att implementera CRM som verktyg. Uppsatsen pekar även på risker och problem som företag kan stöta på vid implementeringen.

I dagens snabbt förändrade och konkurrerande samhälle intar relationsmarknadsföring en central roll i företagens affärsverksamhet. Då relationsmarknadsföring innebär att vårda samt bibehålla befintliga kundrelationer, har detta bidragit till ett större engagemang bland företagen för att skapa värde åt kunden samt uppnå kundlojalitet. Följande problemformulering har ställts: Hur kan företag vårda sina befintliga kundrelationer? Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur företag kan vårda befintliga kundrelationer och därigenom uppnå ökad lojalitet. Den teoretiska referensramen baseras på en redan befintlig kundvårdsstrategi som omfattar teorier kring ett antal faktorer, vilka bidrar till att uppnå ökad lojalitet. Faktorerna är; kompetens, kommunikation, klagomålshantering, engagemang, tillit samt relationskvalité. En kvalitativ ansats har gjorts, då strukturerade intervjuer genomfördes på två fallstudieföretag. Det empiriska underlaget baseras på informationen från genomförda intervjuer, där företagens tillämpning på vårdandet av kundrelationer, för att uppnå ökad kundlojalitet, presenteras. Utifrån det bearbetade empiriunderlaget, görs en djupare analys kring fallstudieobjektens syn på vårdande av kundrelationer, med koppling till framställda teori. Studien har påvisat att det förekommer många likheter mellan företagens strategier för att vårda samt bibehålla befintliga kundrelationer, där bemötandet gentemot kunden utgör ett huvudattribut.

Background: The banking industry is a classic service industry where companiesand customers meet and where their interactions take placedaily. There are many reasons why an unsatisfied customer canchange company to a competitor and the customers that are loyalchoose to stay for certain reasons. There is a competition betweenthe commercial banks and niche banks which makes the relationshipwith existing and new customers more essential for thebanks. It is important for banks today to have loyal customers andbuild up long term relationships. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to understand the difference in strategiesof developing loyalty in a traditional bank and a niche bank,based on customer relationship marketing and compare Swedbankto Länsförsäkringar Bank. Method: A qualitative research method has been used in the thesis by aninterview with Kenneth Åberg at Swedbank and with EdinParazik at Länsförsäkringar Bank. We have used secondary datafrom other studies and combined with our own empirical findings. Findings: It has become important to have a customer focus as thecompetition has increased in the banking market. The generalrelationship marketing has become more focused on thecustomer, as more companies value the relationship withtheir customers instead of only focusing on the product orservices. It is equally important for the twoLänsförsäkringar Bank and Swedbank to strive for customersatisfaction and good work environment which encouragesand strengthens the creation of relationships. It appears forus that there are no major differences between LänsförsäkringarBank’s and Swedbank’s strategies in creating loyalty.Both the niche bank and the commercial bank are aware ofhow their organizations are affected by customer relationshipsand they also have customer loyalty as a starting pointto grow more and to get more market shares.

Title: Micro sized retailers usage of e-CRM: A study about how far micro sized retailers have implemented e-CRM and exploration of what factors can describe the e-CRM adoption   Course code: 4FE03E   Authors:        Fredrik Fagerström               880107                   Linda Sjögren                      880805   Research question: The research explores what factors can explain e-CRM adoption of micro sized retailers through 6 hypotheses, derived from literature review.   Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe how far micro sized retailers have implemented e-CRM and explore what factors can describe their e-CRM adoption.   Methodology: The result of the study consists of the participation of 137 micro sized retailers on the Swedish market. A quantitative questionnaire has been developed out of theories and qualitative pilot-studies.   Conclusion: This research can conclude that micro sized retailers on the Swedish market have, in average, implemented 5 e-CRM features per company. This equals a 12% usage of the total e-CRM features explored for this research. The one proved factor that can describe how retailers have adopted e-CRM is their profitability rate. Companies with a profitability rate below market average are more likely to have implemented more e-CRM features than companies with higher profit rate than market average. The explanation to this might be that companies with a low profit rate implement e-CRM as a tool to cure their low profit rate, since e-CRM is supposed to bring benefits as lower costs and increased sales with the purpose to increase their profit in the future.   Key words; e-CRM, growth orientation, micro sized companies, retailers

Business Market is like battlefield. In order to occupy the market quickly, good merchandise with definite brand position and marketing strategy is essential. Brand managers must think how to obtain customers and keep customers, which also means that how to evaluate target, select target and obtain target from customers by using limited resources in the shortest time. The object of this research is a fashion brand represented by a Japanese company. The purpose is to discuss how a transnational fashion brand promotes its popular brand to other countries. How to utilize marketing strategies and customer relationship management to maintain brand position under keen competition in internationalized and liberalized Taiwan market is the research data. Analysing the consumption data to select target customers and analysing the transaction frequencies of customers are the research method. Customers are differentiated from ages respectively and the market strategy is driven based on Marketing 4P combination analysis. This method helps to develop brand management and brand development strategy, also expects to clarify brand position of each brand, keep target customer and know customer growth.

This dissertation focuses on the discrepancy between consumers’ attitudes towards privacy and actual behavior. Although consumers increasingly protest against invasions of privacy, they routinely disclose more information than their disclosure intent. Firms make sizeable investments in acquiring consumer information because it helps them build and enhance customer relationships. However, some of the information acquisition occurs at the expense of consumers’ privacy. Against this backdrop, understanding and being responsive to consumers’ privacy concerns is critical. Essay 1 focuses on consumers’ thoughts and feelings underlying their intention to disclose or withhold information from firms. I use the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), a depth interviewing process that involves story-telling, sensory images, and vignettes based on psychodrama. The results reported are based on depth interviews of twenty consumers from a large city and mid-sized town in the U.S.A. Essay 2 focuses on consumers’ behavioral responses to an invasion of privacy from a social justice theory perspective. I use the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) in an online survey of 997 respondents to understand thoughts and feelings about privacy that drive the behavioral responses of consumers to an actual/potential invasion of privacy. I identify the antecedents and outcomes of consumers’ information experience with firms. Additionally, I examine vividness effects to understand the extent to which consumer perceptions of likely outcomes due to firms acquiring and using information about them are influenced by media coverage of the issue. Building on the findings of essays 1 and 2, I develop a model and working hypotheses for further empirical analysis. By examining the negative (i.e., violation of privacy) as well as positive experiences of consumers, I identify how consumers’ attitudes towards firms acquiring and using information about them are focused on risks, whereas their behavior takes into account risks as well as rewards. A better understanding of consumers’ privacy concerns can be valuable to firms in personalizing their data acquisition and use strategies, customer communications as well as their overall customer relationship management (CRM) strategy.

There are numerous 100% continuous casting process steel making plants planning to build in the coming years, and therefore competitions in-between are to be more severe. To be competitive in the future , the on-the-time-being steel making furnace plant must be agile and responsive to changing market, yet also able to operate efficiently. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is necessary for the present enterprise to retain valuable customers and to acquire valuable potential customers rather than to merely achieve market share. In the data based marketing area, customer response model with characters of targeting and predicting customers is gradually important than the past. Further more, supply chain management (SCM) is another important competitive trend in industry, in which information is one of the active performance factors. The company of this case study has abundant transactions data and relies heavy on information communicating with customers. This study following the rule of CRM 10C model, gathering customers relationship data in the first place, distinguishing customers with customer¡¦s value and customer¡¦s response model, can hopefully extract customerized needs of implicit information sharing knowledge on the purpose of CRM by improving SCM efficiency. There are four distinct clusters from analyzing 414,651 customer¡¦s transaction data of two years which are ¡§The right Stuff¡¨ , ¡§ Fatal Attractions¡¨ ,¡¨Odd Couples¡¨ and ¡§Ghosts¡¨ , and clustering were verified by the ¡§K-means¡¨ method commonly used in Clustering analysis. By analyzing the questionaries collected from customers, subjected to the aspect of needs of information sharing levels, types , qualities and extents came out different cluster¡¦s needs vary in information levels, qualities and extents. As more study on information sharing and customer¡¦s loyalty, results of customer loyalty affected by information sharing were found and would be more dominant if trust is add in between information sharing and customer¡¦s purchasing will .

Service industry in Taiwan has a great advance during these decades, but one characteristic of the service industry is that service is easily and immediately copied by competitors. In order to cultivate more loyal customers, it is important to create excellent customer relationship management process and to expend every marketing budget wisely. Based on previous study, Reinartz, Krafft & Hoyer (2004) argued two outcomes. One is that CRM process measure outlines three key stages: initiation, maintenance, and termination; the other one is that the implementation of CRM process has a moderately positive association with both perceptual and objective company performance. This research is a case study aims to verify the result by interviewing the managers of nine travel agencies in Taiwan. This research concludes the following results from the interviews of nine travel agencies; especially focuses on the fulfillment of CRM process and the tourism classifications. First, the more a travel agency puts emphasis on service quality, the higher implementation of CRM process they perform. Secondly, it is difficult to evaluate the effects of the CRM process by judging the sales revenue between tourism wholesalers and retailers in 2005, because there are different in their business components. With respect to the classifications of travel agencies, the connections between CRM process and performances are as follows: (1) for the tourism wholesalers, the more cooperative retailers a wholesaler has, the better financial performance it shows. (2) The retail agencies that have enterprises as customers have better financial performances than that only have mass customers.(3) In the tourist industry, if the companies concentrate more on CRM, they would have better non-financial performances. (4) For tourism wholesalers, the more they concentrate on CRM, the better non-financial performances they represent. Finally, it is not significant that the organizational differences have impacts on CRM process and company performance.

ABSTRACT Electronic Commerce (EC) has completely changed business environment and model. Furthermore, traditional business needs new transformation strategy to match customer demand. Many companies try to implement Knowledge Management (KM) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to promote customer satisfaction and earn more money. The purposes of this research are as follows: 1. Strategic analysis of customer knowledge management for steel industry 2. Taking steel industry as an example to understand the customer knowledge This research focuses on three dimensions of CRM¡BKM (knowledge management, customer knowledge resource, and customer knowledge measurement) to design the questionnaire for the steel companies. Taiwanese company has limited knowledge about CRM and KM, especially for traditional business such as steel company. This research aims to collect the idea, strategy and model of CRM and KM in the global market. Moreover, this will help traditional business use new transformation strategy to catch on network consumer and create higher added value. This will help steel industry to draw a blue roadmap in the future. Keywords: KM, CRM, customer knowledge, customer knowledge resource, customer knowledge measurement

The accuracy and similarity of team members' perceptions regarding the interdependencies of their task as well as the criticality of teamwork behaviors is essential to team performance. Unfortunately, these perceptions are not always accurate or similar, which has led to calls for research evaluating the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving these perceptions. The present study evaluated the accuracy and similarity of crew members' perceptions of task interdependence and teamwork in the U.S. railroad industry. Specifically, this study assessed (1) the effect of Crew Resource Management (CRM) training on the accuracy and similarity of locomotive and maintenance of way (MOW) crew members' perceptions and (2), the extent to which the accuracy and similarity of those perceptions are retained 2-years after training. The overall results of the present study suggests that CRM training is effective in increasing the accuracy and similarity of crew members' perceptions of team-relatedness (amount of task interdependence) and perceptions regarding the importance of teamwork. However, the effectiveness is often dependent on the metric used (i.e., accuracy vs. similarity), and the specific characteristics of the crew members (i.e., locomotive vs. MOW, higher vs. lower interpositional experience). Furthermore, the results suggest that training did not increase the accuracy or similarity of crew members' perceptions of team workflow pattern (form of task interdependence). Lastly, a small sample size and low power precluded the running of quantitative statistical analysis assessing the long-term retention of the accuracy and similarity of participants' perceptions of task interdependence or teamwork. However, for the sake of completeness, the means, standard deviations, and effect sizes are presented in the Appendix.