Interaction
CRM Technology links the different departments of an organization together. Making all the
“touch points” where customer interacts with the firm as effective as possible, this can be by
providing access to information from inventory or shipping to the sales department, or the
web site so it can better and faster serve the customer (Popovich and Chen. 2003). As
explained by Chen & Popovich. (2003) the different “touch points” vary in organizations but
they define them as all the places where the customer comes in contact with the firm.
According to Davids (1999) one of the primary concerns with CRM is to synchronize the
different access points in the firm to provide a unified message to the customer at each
interaction point. Xu & Yen et al. (2002) further describe it as, by knowing and working
with all the interaction points the goal is to improve the customers experience with the firm.
Pelen (2005) defines the following types of interaction points.
Media, such as television or radio
Website
E-mail
Telephone
Personal Sales & Service Employees