An Intelligent Customer Complaint Management System with Application to the Transport and Logistics Industry

This book describes an intelligent customer relationship management framework that not only categorizes and analyses customer complaints but also evaluates customer satisfaction thus helping convert dissatisfaction into future business development strategies.

This thesis addresses the issue of customer complaints in the context of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). After a comprehensive survey of the current literature on CRM, the thesis describes the development of a new intelligent CRM (I-CRM) framework, which integrates text analytics, type mapping, SPSS, structural equation modeling, and linear and fuzzy approaches. This new methodology, in contrast to previous ones, is able to handle customer complaints with respect to different variables, thus allowing organizations to find their key customers and key complaints, and to address and provide solution to the major complaints of the key customers, hence promoting business development. The thesis also describes the successful application of the method to a real-world case, represented by the immeasurable truck drivers complaints at the Fremantle port in Western Australia.

Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by Curtin University, Australia Offers a comprehensive survey of the current literature on CRM systems, including the most recent academic research on this topic and its current challenges and gaps Describes a novel intelligent customer relationship management that not only categorizes and analyses customer complaints, but also evaluates customer satisfaction thus helping to convert customer complaints and dissatisfaction into future business development strategies Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Introduction.- Literature Review.