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Customer Relationship Management : Customer Satisfaction And Customer Development Through Customer Insight

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In the modern economy a priority of business activities becomes a two-way communication between the company and its customers. This communication is based on the interests of both sides: companies that seek to profit, survive and grow, and customers who want to achieve added value. The most successful companies today are those that create their business processes in line with customer expectations (Habul & Velic, 2010). Customers are the most important asset of an organization. There cannot be any business prospects without satisfied customers who remain loyal and develop their relationship with the organization. That is why an organization should plan and employ a clear strategy for managing treating customers. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is the strategy for building, , and strengthening loyal and longlasting customer relationships. CRM has two main objectives: Customer retention through customer satisfaction and Customer development through customer insight (Tsiptsis and Chorianopoulos, 2009).
CRM technologies are the tools enabling the firms to get the right information to the right person at the right time and are divided into three parts of, communicational, operational and analytical‘ technologies (Keramati et al., 2010).
To succeed with CRM and address the aforementioned objectives, organizations need to gain insight into customers, their needs, and wants through data analysis. This is where analytical CRM comes in. Analytical CRM is about analyzing

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