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The Next Wave of CRM Innovation: Implications for Research, Teaching, and Practice
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The Next Wave of CRM Innovation: Implications for Research, Teaching, and Practice

Sachithra Lokuge, Darshana Sedera, Thilini Ariyachandra, Saj Kumar and Vadlamani Ravi
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol.46, pp.560-583
2020
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Customer Relationship Management Big Data Internet of Things CRM Curriculum
Globalization and customers’ ever-changing needs have created a hyper-competitive market. As a result, customerrelationship management (CRM) has become a core topic of interest among both practitioners and academics.Further, over the years, with the advancements in the technology landscape, such as digital technologies, CRM hasimproved in myriad ways. This paper summarizes a panel discussion on CRM innovations held at the 2016 PacificAsia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2016) in Chiyai, Taiwan. The panel discussed CRM fundamentalsand how traditional CRM systems work in organizations. Then, the panel focused on the advancement in technologylandscape such as big data, analytics, Internet of things, and artificial intelligence and how such technologies havetransformed innovations in the CRM landscape. Finally, the panel highlighted the limitations in the current CRMcurricula in the universities and how the curriculum today needs to reflect such advancements to enhance the unionbetween the CRM curricula and the industry needs. Further, this paper provides future research ideas for academiaand contributes to research interests on CRM in general.

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