Managing Customer Relationships

Managing customer relations is a comprehensive strategy and process of acquiring, retaining, and partnering with selective customers to create superior value for the company and the customer. It involves the integration of marketing, sales, customer service, and the supply-chain functions of the organization to achieve greater efficiencies and effectiveness in delivering customer value. Customer relationship Management (CRM) appears to be a simple and straightforward concept, at present there are many different conceptual understanding of CRM. The understanding range from IT driven programs designed to optimize customer contact to comprehensive approaches for the establishment and design of long-term relationships. The effort to establish a meaningful relationship with the customer is characteristic of this last understanding. CRM is a holistic process of acquiring, retaining and growing customers. It includes all in-line and off-line relationship management.

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Maraj Rahman Sofi est professeur assistant à la School of Business Studies, IUST, Inde. Ses domaines de recherche comprennent la gestion des relations avec la clientèle et le marketing des services. Irfan Bashir est professeur assistant à la School of Business Studies, IUST, Inde. Ses recherches portent sur les relations avec les clients, le comportement des consommateurs.