@article{2941, author = {Mohammad Saeed AbouTrab}, title = {Exploring Critical Success Factors for Customer Relationship Management}, journal = {Progress in Machines and Systems}, year = {2020}, volume = {9}, number = {1}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.6025/pms/2020/9/1/1-8}, url = {http://www.dline.info/pms/fulltext/v9n1/pmsv9n1_1.pdf}, abstract = {Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has been one of the fastest growing businesses. CRM is gaining interests because of its focus on the customer behaviour and thus it’s potential for increasing revenues. Firms use CRM systems to improve their customer understanding, increase their products and services quality, reduce cost, and thus increase profitability. However, serious costs including failure to achieve successful CRM may result in experiencing significant difficulties for adopting companies and may put them out of business. This study aims to study in depth the critical success factors affecting the implementations of CRM system by introducing theoretical framework that categorising critical success factors regardless the type of business. The framework was applied on two case studies with different businesses to draw some interesting results.}, }