School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Customer Relationship Management
  • Unit Code

    MKT3603
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is essential for organisational success. This unit investigates CRM as a customer-centred business practice. It covers the fundamentals of creating and managing mutually beneficial, long term business relationships. It views CRM across three main forms: strategic, operational and analytical. It defines CRM as the core business strategy of an organisation that integrates the internal processes and external networks to create and deliver a value product to targeted customers at a profit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MKT1600

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critique the theories underpinning CRM in a business to business and in a business to consumer environment.
  2. Apply the concepts of customer portfolio analysis, customer lifetime value, customer retention, delivery of customer-experienced value, and revenue management.
  3. Apply the analytical tools required to measure and manage customer expectations, service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.
  4. Analyse cases and evaluate scenarios in order to determine whether CRM is applicable.
  5. Apply the functions and importance of CRM software.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to CRM.
  2. Developing and managing Customer: related databases.
  3. Implementing CRM.
  4. Planning the process of CRM.
  5. Understanding relationships.
  6. Customer lifecycle: acquisition and retention .
  7. Strategic CRM.
  8. Customer portfolio management.
  9. Customer experienced value.
  10. Operational CRM.
  11. SFA automation, Marketing automation and Service automation.
  12. Analytical CRM.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-Campus mode of delivery- Students attend a weekly three-hour seminar. The seminar involves discussions, class activities and when appropriate keynote speaker presentations from industry representatives. This mode is also supported by online materials . Off-Campus mode of Delivery- Resources for this unit will be available on line via Blackboard. Regular online access is required.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 130%
ProjectProject30%
ExaminationEnd of semester exam40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 130%
ProjectProject30%
ExaminationEnd of semester exam40%

Text References

  • ^ Buttle. F., & Maklan. S.(2015).Customer relationship management (3rd ed.). Oxon, UK: Routledge.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Customer Relationship Management
  • Unit Code

    MKT3603
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is essential for organisational success. This unit investigates CRM as a customer-centred business practice. It covers the fundamentals of creating and managing mutually beneficial, long term business relationships. It views CRM across three main forms: strategic, operational and analytical. It defines CRM as the core business strategy of an organisation that integrates the internal processes and external networks to create and deliver a value product to targeted customers at a profit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MKT1600

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critique the theories underpinning CRM in a business to business and in a business to consumer environment.
  2. Apply the concepts of customer portfolio analysis, customer lifetime value, customer retention, delivery of customer-experienced value, and revenue management.
  3. Apply the analytical tools required to measure and manage customer expectations, service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.
  4. Analyse cases and evaluate scenarios in order to determine whether CRM is applicable.
  5. Apply the functions and importance of CRM software.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to CRM.
  2. Developing and managing Customer: related databases.
  3. Implementing CRM.
  4. Planning the process of CRM.
  5. Understanding relationships.
  6. Customer lifecycle: acquisition and retention .
  7. Strategic CRM.
  8. Customer portfolio management.
  9. Customer experienced value.
  10. Operational CRM.
  11. SFA automation, Marketing automation and Service automation.
  12. Analytical CRM.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-Campus mode of delivery- Students attend a weekly three-hour seminar. The seminar involves discussions, class activities and when appropriate keynote speaker presentations from industry representatives. This mode is also supported by online materials . Off-Campus mode of Delivery- Resources for this unit will be available on line via Blackboard. Regular online access is required.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 130%
ProjectProject30%
ExaminationEnd of semester exam40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 130%
ProjectProject30%
ExaminationEnd of semester exam40%

Text References

  • ^ Buttle. F., & Maklan. S.(2015).Customer relationship management (3rd ed.). Oxon, UK: Routledge.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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