Starbucks Customer Relationship Management Case Study

1. Introduction:
Customer relationship management systems are part of enterprise applications. These systems are used to help manage relationships with customers, Information is provided to coordinate all of the business processes that deal with customers in sales, marketing, and service to optimize revenue, customer satisfaction, and customer retention (Laudon & Laudon, 2012).In today’s world, customer management relationship systems have given companies a large list of ways to interact with customers. Even though those ways are applied occasionally, companies still find even newer ways to provide customers an enjoyable experience for their products and services. Today, the customer relationship management industry is mainly focused on components, such as crowdsourcing, customers using mobile apps of companies and interaction from the social media teams of companies. Needless to say, Starbucks, coffeehouse chain, have pioneered in this system. Starbucks started out as a café in Seattle, Washington in USA at1971. One day, in 1981, a man named Howard Schultz entered in the café for the first time and fell into homelike environment of the café. He adored the place so much that, in 1987, he and a group investors acquired the café. From there on out, as of June 28, 2015, they have built more than 24000 stores in 70 countries

Improve the efficiency of the business: CRM helps them to eliminate redundancies in their marketing campaigns by allowing them to intuit which stage of the purchasing process each returning customer is in. They can send out marketing materials that are targeted to specific interests and purchasing abilities, rather than transmitting general messages that are far less likely to generate an optimal amount of attention. Their CRM system also collects and organizes a vast amount of data about the individual and the customer groups which helps them to know about customer interest and choice. And thus they speed up their service of customer