Customer Relationship Management: A Global Approach provides a uniquely global, holistic, strategic and tactical grounding in managing customer and other stakeholder experiences and relationships across the value chain, cultures and countries. Reflecting the global structures of companies operating today, the author draws on his research knowledge alongside industry and teaching experience to connect Customer Relationship Management (CRM) core concepts, processes and strategies with international business opportunities and challenges, including globalization and cross-cultural marketing. Emphasis is placed on the need for developing cross-cultural skills and cultural intelligence for identifying and fulfilling cross country CRM opportunities, through analytical, strategic, operational and social CRM projects. Written in an accessible style throughout, the eleven chapters provide ample depth to support a full course related to CRM, spanning: * CRM foundations * planning and implementation * managing stakeholder relationships * improving global CRM implementation Wide-ranging case studies include: Royal Bank of Scotland, the Nike hijab, Instagram, HubSpot and the pharmaceutical industry in India. The text will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying CRM, Relationship Marketing and International Marketing, as well as CRM and marketing practitioners.

Customer Relationship Management: A Global Approach provides a uniquely global, holistic, strategic and tactical grounding in managing customer and other stakeholder experiences and relationships across the value chain, cultures and countries. Reflecting the global structures of companies operating today, the author draws on his research knowledge alongside industry and teaching experience to connect Customer Relationship Management (CRM) core concepts, processes and strategies with international business opportunities and challenges, including globalization and cross-cultural marketing. Emphasis is placed on the need for developing cross-cultural skills and cultural intelligence for identifying and fulfilling cross country CRM opportunities, through analytical, strategic, operational and social CRM projects. Written in an accessible style throughout, the eleven chapters provide ample depth to support a full course related to CRM, spanning: * CRM foundations * planning and implementation * managing stakeholder relationships * improving global CRM implementation Wide-ranging case studies include: Royal Bank of Scotland, the Nike hijab, Instagram, HubSpot and the pharmaceutical industry in India. The text will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying CRM, Relationship Marketing and International Marketing, as well as CRM and marketing practitioners.

Forward-looking organizations are investing in customer relationship management (CRM) technology to support the adoption of more customer centric strategies. Results have been mixed. The importance of CRM for the long term success of organizations, coupled with the skewed and incomplete understanding of it by industry, makes it a topic worthy of detailed investigation. Marketing academics too have investigated CRM from varying viewpoints and found that there has been little deliberate attempt to consolidate the conceptualizations into a holistic understanding. This is important given the nascent and evolving nature of CRM. This book takes a holistic look at the emerging issues and trends in CRM, including the effect of computer software and the accompanying new management processes on organizations, and the dynamics of the alignment of marketing, sales and services, and all other functions responsible for delivering customers a satisfying experience. In order to understand CRM better a content analysis of more than a hundred articles and documents from academic and industry sources was undertaken. Results show that there is a lack of holistic thinking and discussion of CRM in both academics and industry which is required to understand how the people, process, and technology in CRM impact each other to affect successful implementation. This book is addressed to both practitioners in a wide range of industries involved in CRM implementation and adoption efforts as well as researchers in CRM.