A MODEL FOR EVALUATING THE
EFFECTIVENESS OF CRM USING
THE BALANCED SCORECARD
JonghyeokKim
Euiho Suh
Hyunseok Hwang
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ABSTRACT
Customer relationship management (CRM) has become one of the
leading business strategies in the new millennium. CRM is a broad
term for managing business interactions with customers. The
effectiveness of CRM can be measured as a satisfaction level
achieved by CRM activities. Although CRM has emerged as a major
business strategy for e-commerce, little research has been
conducted in evaluating the effectiveness of CRM. Because it is
difficult to demonstrate tangible returns on the resources expanded
to plan, develop, implement, and operate CRM, the aim of our
research is to measure the intangible attributes of these benefits,
such as value enhancement, effectiveness, innovation, and service
improvement. In this paper, we propose a customer-oriented
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Direct Marketing Educational Foundation, Inc.
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JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE MARKETING
VOLUME 17 / NUMBER 2 / SPRING 2003
Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com).
DOI: 10.1002/dir.10051
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JONGHYEOK KIM is at the
Research Center of Korea
Telecommunication.
EUIHO SUH AND HYUNSEOK
HWANG are in the Department of
Industrial Engineering at Pohang
University of Science and
Technology.
The authors would like to thank
the Ministry of Education of Korea
for its financial support toward the
Electrical and Computer
Engineering Division at Pohang
University of Science and
Technology through its BK21
program.