Enterprise Customer Management: Integrating Corporate and Customer Information

  • Henning Ahlert
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Abstract

Relationship marketing is gaining more and more importance within many organizations as a means of increasing customer orientation and customer satisfaction. Customer relationships have to be managed continuously. It is therefore necessary for an organization to develop a common strategy for the management and use of all customer information. Information technology plays an important role in collecting, processing and using this customer information in order to attract, retain, and win back customers. But it is also important to define processes and rules that enable an organization to communicate with the customers in a coherent and coordinated way. The people using customer information also have to have the right skills and training to be able to exploit the information and build strong and lasting relationships with customers. A coordinated combination of these three components allows an organization to build an integrated customer management process.

Keywords

Business Process Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Customer Relationship Relationship Marketing 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Henning Ahlert
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  1. 1.EDS Electronic Data SystemsRüsselsheimGermany

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