ROLE OF E-CRM IN INDIAN BANKS
Prof. (DR) Shakina Tabbsum A. Munshi
Professor & Head of Department
N .R. Vekaria Institute of Business Management Studies, Junagadh
Contact No. - 9974391187
E mail: - tabbu.munshi@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The Indian banking industry is transforming from its traditional transactional concept to Relationship Marketing. The tag “Customer is King” depicts that the customer is the focal point for any business scenario. The CRM concept has been implemented with the intention of better understanding of needs, requirements and trying to maintain a long term relationship with the customer. Maintaining personalized attention approach, managing database, creating customer value and appropriate retention strategies is the
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It involves integration of marketing, sales, customer service and the supply-chain functions of the organization to achieve greater efficiencies in delivering customer value. Robust technology has affected the banking industry in the past few decades.
ATMs have substituted cashier tellers, telephone represented by call centers replaced the bank branch, internet displaced the mail, credit cards and electronic cash displaced traditional cash transactions. The banking industry is now moving towards implementation of relationship banking principles. It is also experiencing the “Productivity flywheel”. Higher competition is leading to increase the productivity in banks. Higher Productivity is leading to grab the greater market share by the players. Higher market share is again leading to higher competition. Thus to have an edge over competitors, e-CRM is important in retaining the existing and to attract the potential customers. To experience customer retention, the banks should monitor the customer behavior. The front line employees can have a better understanding, a predictive future behavior and customer preferences. The database and applications helps the bank to maintain better relations with customers to continue to grow and evolve in the market.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Soumya Shreedhar (2015) states in her Research Paper that, in today’s competitive
‘Customer Relationship Management is the ultimate challenge for marketing experts in any business. A successful company will use customer information wisely to build relationships with their customers, on the level that together they will work together towards a long-term relationship.’ (Xu et al. 2002)
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Today, more and more companies find that cultivating customer loyalty is a key factor to achieve success. Customer relationship management (CRM) focuses on the relationship between customer and company. Due to this feature, many companies are trying to establish their own CRM system for helping them to connect new customers and boost old customers’ long-term loyalty. CRM systems include operations and analysis, and relationship marketing strategy and supporting, customer-centric business processes (Buttle 2004). With the development of information technology (IT), using CRM system
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Digital changes in the banking industry now require that banks offer service options that reflect the technological advances that have taken place in the industry. Consumers no longer expect to spend a lot of time in a bank to find their financial solutions. Banks need to capture customers’ attention by providing extraordinary service and mobile options to differentiate themselves from their competitors. For this reason, a Bank’s computer systems need to reflect its vision if it wants to compete with top institutions, especially if its current system is plagued by legacy databases issues. Relationship Managers need to perform customer needs-assessments that will generate sales at a later time. Without a good onboarding system, a bank is
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The report provides a research of the customer oriented strategy adopted by ASB Bank Limited and significant impact of an information technology on this
I, Shriya Mehrotra, student of MBA 4th semester, studying at Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore do here by declare that this project relating to the topic “Customer Relationship Management And Importance Of Relationship Marketing In The Banking
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