This paper reviews the literature of CRM definitions in order to highlight the impact and the confusion around definitions of CRM. It is emerging the new perspectives in Customer relationship Management. It addresses some issues in the literature review, which constitutes a significant difficulty in the CRM adopting process. The numerous CRM definitions, the advancement in technology and customer knowledge emerging new perspectives in CRM. Content Analysis is carried out to summarize the most features of CRM definitions in Marketing, Relationship Marketing, Management, and Information Systems within ten different classifications which shows the diverging aspects of CRM definitions. A voluminous literature review has been accumulated and categorized into ten categories. The CRM definitions and categories are reviewed and listed in chronological order in Appendix-A. The paper introduces several fresh perspectives for the diversity of CRM definitions and shows CRM as a comprehensive, integrated framework around all aspects of the organization as well as customers’ lifestyles. The list of CRM definitions could provide a great help for academics as well as practitioners in the field of CRM.
This paper highlights the influence of knowledge on the customer relationship as the fourth core component of the CRM components which are technology, people and business processes. The fourth component emerges as a result of the advancement in technology, telecommunications, and the excess in customer information in the era of information. Moreover, this paper highlights the new fifth type of CRM namely “Showroom CRM”. Besides, the other CRM types are strategic CRM, Operational CRM, Analytical CRM and Collaborative CRM. The fifth type is a comprehensive business framework which includes the structure of the other types of CRM. Moreover, the researcher surveyed the web and listed a 250 CRM system packages and programs available in the software market. The summary and classification of the 250 CRM system is given in table (1) of appendix A of the study.
This article is about the concept of CRM life style. It is an intellectual concept, where the researcher analyses the abbreviation “CRM” by returning each letter to its origin to prove the hypothesis of the concept. Where the researcher proposes the CRM database structure for the CRM process as a customer life style, where it depends on the business workflow process and the specialty of each business, and where the database structure tried in our case study for an authorized automobile dealer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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