Ethics in Functional Areas of Business-Customer & Vendor Relationship Management
According to Paul Greenberg, author of CRM at the Speed of Light , to dissect the meaning. The author calls it “….a philosophy and a business strategy, supported by a technology platform…designed to engage the customer in a collaborative conversation in order to provide mutually beneficial value.….It’s the company’s programmatic response to the customer’s ownership of the conversation.” Complications arise when people forget those last five words that emphasize CRM is a “conversation” that the customer owns. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) deals with the processes and systems that support business strategies to build long-term and profitable relations with customers (Ngai et al. 2009). CRM systems are mainly composed of three parts, marketing management, sales management, service management and technical support management. The core content is mainly to increase the degree of automation of all aspects through continuous improvement and management of corporate sal...