Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a buzz word in marketing. Each year more and more is spent on software-based systems for managing customer relationships. Yet there is growing evidence that many of these systems do not add value and that many may in fact harm customer relationships.
Susan Foreman reviews this evidence as well as providing useful pointers to how CRM can be implemented successfully in organisations.
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