This paper reports the results of a study into the implementation of data-driven customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. Despite its popularity, there is still a significant failure rate of CRM projects. A combination of survey and interviews/case studies research approach was used. It is found that CRM implementers are not investing enough efforts in improving data quality and data integration processes to support their CRM applications.
Index Terms:
CRM, Data Quality, Data Integration, Implementation
Citation:
Farouk Missi, Sarmad Alshawi, Guy Fitzgerald, "Why CRM Efforts Fail? A Study of the Impact of Data Quality and Data Integration," hicss, vol. 8, pp.216c, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 8, 2005