Introduction: The importance of empathy in modern world business
We are going to discuss Customer Relationship Management, CRM. So - let us start with the question: what is CRM? Can we call it one of the customer-centric approaches? We should; at least it seems so. CRM should be about relationships, but is it really? Do companies undertaking CRM care about the customer and their relationship with her/him? Or maybe they just analyse various data in order to obtain simple action/reaction results? Big data, small data, primary quantitative data, like NPS indexes?
Let us use a metaphor. Ken has a girlfriend....