Due to globalization, international business competition has become keen in recent years. Enterprises have to face different challenges from all over the world, from inside Taiwan to the whole globe. Consequently, enterprises start to consider what management they can put into practice in order to increase organizational niche and improve business competitiveness and performance. Numerous theories and empirical studies suggested that the prime method to increase business competitiveness and performance is to connect management activities and strategies with customers. It can achieve remarkable success in business innovation and economy. Based on this, business philosophy nowadays turned into customer-oriented instead of cost or efficiency-oriented. There are lots of literature referring customer knowledge management and customer relationship management; most of them focus on the impact of these two factors on business performance. The linkage between knowledge management and customer relationship management are less discussed. As a matter of fact, customer knowledge management is the intervening variable when enterprises do customer relationship management, affecting the outcome of customer relationship management a lot. This study mainly aimed to to measure how customer knowledge management and customer satisfaction influence customer relationship management. On the other hand, the influence of customer satisfaction on customer knowledge management and customer relationship management are included as well. According to the analysis of literature and in-depth interview with the case company, the findings were as followed: 1.Customer knowledge management in software industry is beneficial for the predictability of the Customer relationship management. 2.The customer satisfaction is very important for software industry. Customer satisfaction is beneficial to enrich the intension of Customer knowledge management and maintain a good relationship with customers.

In the consumer consciousness to surge upward, the product to weed through the old to bring forth the new unceasingly, under the market environment fast icissitude time, wants to maintain the customer loyalty to have all the more difficult tendency. Hence, how to maintain good relationship with customers to strength their willingness to frequent communicate with back has become very important. Therefore for various bank raises one's head in the competition intense environment, then with every effort develops each service, provides measures the financial service and the related product for the customer which the body subscribes does, hoped that can establish the long-time relations. Motivation of this research is to investigate correlations among customer relationship management, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty from customers¡¦ point of view and through questionnaire to understand credit card holders¡¦ recognized feelings while interacting and communicating with the issued bank. The research targets are credit card holders live in Tai Chung city. The available sample size is 385, this research main analysis result is altogether as follows: First, the partial demographic variables are related to credit card holding situations. The results could be a reference for operator in planning for related marketing strategy Second, the partial demographic variables and credit card holding situations have significant differences to customer relationship management, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Third, There is positive relationship customer satisfaction and customer relationship. Customer satisfaction affects customer relationship, which means when customers recognize credit card issuing bank more then the relationship will show betters. Discovered according to this findings that the customer will relate the management truly to affect the customer loyalty, and the customer service, the interactive emotion, support processing and the technology will display these four construction surface are also the consumer take seriously.

This thesis investigates the impact of customer¡¦s voice and service requests to customer satisfactions and royalty in competitive service industry. The objective of the problem is to identify the customer¡¦s communication channel and enquiries are the main key factors of customer complaint response by data mining method and cross-factors analysis. We proposed to build the internal platform to collect and analyze the long term consumer¡¦s requirements to set the marketing policy and the service mechanism to meet quick response and increase customer service level.

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

Customer retention, loyalty and satisfaction are extremely important elements in any company’s strategy, especially in the highly competitive South African banking industry. Understanding the various factors that could influence these constructs is therefore critical to organizational success. Several studies showed the impact of these measures on profitability and shareholder value, but there has been little effort to access the factors that might lead to higher levels of retention, loyalty and satisfaction, especially in the banking industry. This paper examines the antecedents of customer retention, satisfaction and loyalty. These possible factors include: perceived value, perceived corporate image, perceived competitive advantage, perceived switching barriers, communication, knowledgeable employees, empowerment, personalisation, ethical behaviour, fees, relationship marketing, service quality (core and relational) as well as enabling service features. The results indicated that customer loyalty, customer satisfaction, switching barriers and communication had a significant impact on customer retention; customer loyalty, perceived value, perceived corporate image, retention, empowerment and relationship marketing had a significant impact on customer satisfaction; and customer satisfaction, switching barriers, perceived value, customer retention, fees, competitive advantage and relationship marketing had a significant impact on customer loyalty. It is evident that there is a close relation between satisfaction, retention and loyalty as all three influence each other in some way or another. / Thesis (MBA)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.

Customer retention, loyalty and satisfaction are extremely important elements in any company’s strategy, especially in the highly competitive South African banking industry. Understanding the various factors that could influence these constructs is therefore critical to organizational success. Several studies showed the impact of these measures on profitability and shareholder value, but there has been little effort to access the factors that might lead to higher levels of retention, loyalty and satisfaction, especially in the banking industry. This paper examines the antecedents of customer retention, satisfaction and loyalty. These possible factors include: perceived value, perceived corporate image, perceived competitive advantage, perceived switching barriers, communication, knowledgeable employees, empowerment, personalisation, ethical behaviour, fees, relationship marketing, service quality (core and relational) as well as enabling service features. The results indicated that customer loyalty, customer satisfaction, switching barriers and communication had a significant impact on customer retention; customer loyalty, perceived value, perceived corporate image, retention, empowerment and relationship marketing had a significant impact on customer satisfaction; and customer satisfaction, switching barriers, perceived value, customer retention, fees, competitive advantage and relationship marketing had a significant impact on customer loyalty. It is evident that there is a close relation between satisfaction, retention and loyalty as all three influence each other in some way or another. / Thesis (MBA)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.

Thesis (M.M.S.)--University of Waikato, 2009. / Title from PDF cover (viewed October 2, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-127)

M.Comm. / The first objective of this study is to determine the techniques appropriate for building customer relations. The second objective of this study is to establish the guidelines necessary for improving customer relations. The third objective is to establish the levels of relationships that have taken place between the respective manufacturing and customer (retail) companies under study. The fourth objective is to discover if any best practices with regards to relationship building can be identified. Restrictions/Limitations The study under focus relates only to a small sample in the South African economy. Although one could probably use the findings as a representative sample, a more valid statistical measure will be gleaned from a larger sample. Unfortunately little research has been reported on relationship marketing in South Africa in recent years. A report by Jordaan et. al. (1997) was released on key account management, which is an instrument to successful marketing relationships. In fact, no concrete conclusions have been drawn with regards to South African companies' channel relationship positions between suppliers and customers. Due to the latter, the research study has been of an exploratory nature. The hypothesis put forward, together with the research study, will serve as an excellent cornerstone for further research developments. Research methodology Part One: Theory Information for this study has been collected by making use of the following ways. Firstly information concerning the development of customer relations from the pre 1960's, was retrieved from a product manager at Unilever, by means of an interview. Secondly, information was captured from published and unpublished literature about the development of the concept of relationship marketing and its rightful place within the general field of marketing. Information concerning techniques, guidelines and best practices for relationship/partnership building, have been extracted from various literature sources. Part Two: Empirical study An empirical study has been undertaken to determine to what extent South African fast moving consumer goods companies have progressed towards a synergistic partnership between supplier and customer. The information was collected by means of an unstructured questionnaire directed at the following five focus group companies, namely, Cadbury's/Schweppes, Coca-Cola, Nestle, National Brands and Unilever.

Customer relationship management (CRM) presents a new paradigm shift to the old traditional marketing strategies that are known and practiced by many organisations in South Africa and across the globe. Competition is not an excuse for failure anymore. Organisations that do not have any concrete strategies in dealing with the customer will not survive in the market. The ultimate goal of CRM is to enable organisations to forge closer ties with the customer so that a solid bond can be created to enhance loyalty and satisfaction. The goal for this research was to identify the CRM strategies used by a single organisation and thereafter suggest improvements to enhance customer loyalty. The results of the study could assist the management of the organisation to improve the CRM strategies which will hopefully enhance retention and prevent customer attrition. A literature review was conducted to unveil various elements of CRM, and strategies that can attract and retain customers. It helped in identifying themes for the empirical study. An in-depth interview was conducted with the general manager of the organisation to gauge his perception, and CRM practices in the organisation. An interview guide was used during the interview process. Four main topics namely: implementation of CRM, customer loyalty, customer complaints and conflict, and employees training and motivation were utilised for the interview guide and followed by further probing. Based on the responses obtained, analyses were made by comparing the responses to what literature revealed so that shortcomings could easily be identified.The study revealed that there were several inconsistencies with what was practised by the organisation and what the literature study revealed. Bearing in mind the shortcomings identified in the empirical study, the researcher made the following recommendations. The CRM implementation approach needs to be carefully planned with a clear defined vision and mission statement that focus on customer centredness. The organisation needs to invest in modern and innovative channels of communication and strategic partnership to reach the right customer. The organisation has to develop effective market segmentation and targeting to know the customer well. Consistent and highly relevant customer experiences should be drawn-on to fulfill the organisation’s promise of trust and reliability. The organisation should adopt competitive pricing strategy to limit customer sensitivity on price. The organisation should invest in employees’ development and welfare. Further research can be conducted to investigate the perception of other food retailers on the CRM strategies practiced. Further research can also be conducted in the organisation to investigate the perception of employees and customers on the CRM strategies practised.

Cílem práce je nastínit možnosti využití analytického CRM k zvyšování ziskovosti společnosti. Analytický CRM se zabývá analýzou zákaznických dat, které slouží jako podpora pro operativní a strategické rozhodování firmy. Teoretická část práce se zabývá různými způsoby segmentace zákazníků, zákaznickými metrikami a způsoby, jak si udržet dobré zákazníky ve společnosti. Pro ucelený obraz o analytickém CRM také nastiňuje jeho technickou stránku, ve které popisuje nejčastěji využívané techniky při získávání dat. Praktická část práce byla vyhotovena ve spolupráci se společností Makro Cash & Carry. Popisuje nejdůležitější změny, které byly podniknuty k přeměně Makra z produktově na zákaznicky orientovanou společnost, a podrobněji se věnuje práci kontrolorů, jež se analytickým CRM ve firmě zabývají.