Towards Customer Knowledge Relationship Management: Integrating Knowledge Management and Customer Relationship Management Process

Haroun Alryalat () and Samer Al Hawari ()
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Haroun Alryalat: The Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences, Amman-Jordan, Jordan
Samer Al Hawari: Applied Science Private University, Jordan

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2008, vol. 07, issue 03, 145-157

Abstract: Due to the strong competition that exists among organisations and the rapid change in the business environment, knowledge has turned out to become a key source for organisations to enhance the competitive advantage. Integrating Knowledge Management (KM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) process is a new research area, therefore, scientific research and literature around it remain limited. In addition, the impact of KM process on customer acquisition, retention, and expansion to improve customer satisfaction remains under study and report. The aim of this paper is to present a conceptual framework of KM integrated with CRM called Customer Knowledge Relationship Management (CKRM) Process depending on analysis of various models presented in KM and CRM. The main highlighting is laid upon the concepts of the concept of customer knowledge (knowledge about customer, knowledge for customer, knowledge from customer). Therefore, this paper contributes to the development of KM process (Knowledge Process about Customer, Knowledge Process for Customer, and Knowledge Process from Customer). The paper investigated how the companies in Jordan developed KM process to improvement the CRM process. Based on data collected from the company, results from analysis indicated that the KM process had a positive effect on CRM process.

Keywords: Knowledge capture; knowledge creation; knowledge application; customer acquisitions; customer retention; customer expansion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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