MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HOCHIMINH CITY --------- Trần Quốc Ánh CRM ACTIVITIES AT VIETCOMBANK HO CHI MINH CITY BRANCH MASTER THESIS Ho Chi Minh City, 2011 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HOCHIMINH CITY --------- Trần Quốc Ánh CRM ACTIVITIES AT VIETCOMBANK HO CHI MINH CITY BRANCH Major: Business Administration Code: 60.05 MASTER THESIS Supervisor: Trần Hà Minh Quân Ho Chi Minh City, 2011 Abstract Globalization and technology improvements have exposed companies to a situation with tough competition. In this new era, companies are focusing on managing customer relationships in order to efficiently maximize revenues. Today marketing is not just developing, delivering and selling, it is moving towards developing and maintaining long-term relationships with customers. Relationship marketing is becoming important in financial services.
Managers really need to look at areas where opportunities lie, because industry consolidation, virtual delivery channels and the ability to move money around with a click of a mouse are making it easier for customers to leave one bank for another. In this situation CRM is an opportunity that banks can avail to rise above minor advantages by developing actual relationships with their customers (Rahman, 2005). The purpose of this study was to investigate CRM activities (view of CRM, CRM processes, CRM technology and CRM structure and people) that are already exist at one of the biggest Vietnamese Commercial Banks in the South of Vietnam_Vietcombank Ho Chi Minh City Branch. The results revealed that the Bank is already adopting CRM.
The Bank has implemented CRM processes which is considered necessary for a customer centric organization. The Bank has integrated technology with the business process in a good way and is organisating its structure towards CRM. So far, the Bank has achieved a certain rate of success in terms of customer satisfaction and customer relationship management. A descriptive approach with exploratory and explanatory touches, therefore, would reveal important insights and draw some conclusions for management.
Keywords: Customer relationship management (CRM), qualitative research i Acknowledgement This thesis was written from April 2010 to June 2011 at Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. During the entire process of this thesis, many people encouraged and helped me to make this work possible. I would like to take this opportunity to show my sincere gratitude and appreciation to all people involved in this thesis work. Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Dr.
Tran Ha Minh Quan, Executive Associate Dean, International School of Business for his helpful guidance, support and contribution and for giving me the opportunity to work with him on this thesis. Thanks for providing me with thoughtful supervision, invaluable guidance and constructive suggestions for this thesis. I would also like to thank the respondents at Vietcombank Ho Chi Minh City Branch for their fruitful discussion and valuable information during my interview and data collection process. This study would not have been possible to be executed without their helps.
On a personal level, my sincerely appreciation went to my parents, my brother, my sisters, and my relativies for their great support whenever I got any problem. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam June 2011 ii Table of Contents Abstract .ii Table of Contents.iii Chapter 1: Introduction .1 Statement of Research Problem .2 Objectives of the Research and Research Questions .4 Limitation of the Study .5 Structure of the Thesis .7 Summary of the Chapter .8 Chapter 2: Literatue Review on Customer Relationship Management .1 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) .2 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) .1 Buyer-Seller Relationship.2 Seller’s CRM Process Cycle.4 Organisational Structure and People for CRM .5 Benefits of CRM.6 The Reasons to Apply CRM in the Financial Services Industry .7 CRM Activities in the Banking Sector .8 Research Questions and Frame of Reference .32 Summary of the Chapter .36 Chapter 3: CRM Activities at Vietcombank Ho Chi Minh City Branch .1 Overview about Vietcombank .2 Investigating CRM Actitivies at Vietcombank Ho Chi Minh City Branch .1 How do people at VCB HCM view CRM? .2 How is the CRM Process at VCB HCM be described?.3 How the information technology being applied in CRM at VCB HCM? 45 3.