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- 1. INDIGENOUS ‘LUWU’ COMMUNITY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – POST MODERN STANDPOINT
- 2. Innovative Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Career Choice
- 3. Oil and Non-Oil Revenues in Gulf Countries - A Comparative Analysis between Oman and UAE
- 4. The Role of Business Incubators in Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A Study of the Sultanate of Oman
Reshaping Service Business –Transforming to Customer Intimate Business in Oman: An Assessment
Abstract
Business competitive landscape evolves and conventional approach to business success may render ineffective or insufficient to drive the company to their desired state. Business practices and models are cropping up to win customers’ trust and increase their market share and maintain and develop customer loyalty. This study is intended to assess service giving businesses’ effort in one of the facets of the competitive arena which highlights the level of customer intimacy of service businesses to their customers. Determining the customers’ perception and expectation on the level of customer intimacy based on the current customer centric approach implemented will be the framework used. Service giving businesses, which primarily requires high level of interaction, the determination of the actual level of customer intimacy will serve as an input in initiating and reshaping customer-centered policies, programs and processes.
Keywords: Customer Intimacy, CRM, Customer Service, Consumer Behavior
- Dr. Cirilo E. Mirano, Jr., Romel A. Basilan *
