Mohamad Mohsen Sedighiis a researcher at the Young Researchers Club, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University.
Taha Mokfiis a data miner and data mining trainer conducting plenty of research projects in Iranian companies.
Seyedehfatemeh Golrizgashtiis a lecturer at South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University.ABSTRACT Customer Relationship Management (CRM) plays a prominent role in enabling businesses to meet their customers ' needs, and therefore it acts as a catalyst in the process of creating and delivering value to them. As CRM concerns managing customer knowledge, it can be considered as a subset of Knowledge Management (KM). Therefore, in this study, the effort has been made to propose a Customer Knowledge Management (CKM) process model to compensate the existing lack of a study integrating CRM and KM with the aim of customer value augmentation. In this CKM model, all forms of CRM are employed to support all the phases of CKM. Finally, a home appliances case is studied to illustrate the proposed CKM model.