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MKT610 : Customer Relationship Management

Course Overview

Course Synopsis

This course provides a comprehensive review of Customer Relationship Management. It explains what CRM is, the costs it creates and the benefits it delivers, the many varied contexts in which it is used, the technologies that are deployed, and how CRM can be implemented. The course shows how CRM practices and technologies are used to enhance the achievement of marketing, sales, and service objectives throughout the customer lifecycle stages of customer acquisition, retention and development, whilst simultaneously supporting broader organizational goals.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • An overview, of the domain of CRM
  • Emphasizes a managerial perspective on CRM
  • How CRM practitioners in sales, marketing and service can understand and make use of social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and the customer-related data they offer.
  • Big data. These are data that are typified by their volume, velocity and variety. The data that are held by social media platforms are only one type of big data.
  • How Social CRM fits into the CRM landscape, and particularly whether it is a fundamental type of CRM, equivalent to strategic, operational and analytical CRM.
  • How to analyze and make use of unstructured data such as transcripts of telephone calls, call centre agent notes and survey participants’ responses to open-ended questionnaire items.
  • How marketers, salespeople, service staff and their managers can use technologies to better understand and meet the requirements of customers, whilst also meeting organizational goals and objectives.


Course Calendar

1 Theme 1: Introduction to CRM

2 Theme 2: Understanding CRM

3 Theme 3 : Managing the Customer Journey: Customer Acquisition

4 Theme 4 : Managing the Customer Journey: Customer Retention and Development

5 Theme 5 : Customer Portfolio Management

6 Theme 6 : Managing Customer-Experienced Value

7 Theme 7 : Managing customer experience

8 Theme 8 : Marketing Automation

9 Theme 9 : Sales force automation

10 Theme 10 : Service Automation

11 Theme 11 : Developing and Managing Customer-Related Databases

12 Theme 12 : Using Customer-Related Data

13 Theme 13 : Planning to Succeed

14 Theme 14 : Implementing CRM & Looking to The Future