A Study on the Problem and Improvement of CRM in Financial Institutions

금융기관의 CRM문제점과 개선방안에 관한연구

In the age of globalization, effective and efficient corporate management is becoming more important as domestic and international business circumstances changes. In the middle of endless changes in business circumstances, fast reaction to customers and market, and offering customized goods and service became essential. In this respect, CRM designed to utilize customer information scientifically and systematically, has become an essential system and marketing strategy to enhance corporate competitiveness. CRM has placed the importance of customers in the front of marketing and has focused every process and business minds on customers. Recent change in the market and the trend of establishing and introducing CRM system has lead us to concentrate on the introduction of CRM in the financial institutions. This study searched for several views about CRM in academic and industrial papers. Through theoretical approach on CRM, the background of the introduction of CRM, the purpose of CRM, the characteristic and application of CRM, and the expected effect of CRM will be discussed. This study is focused on financial institutions where CRM is widely used. And through documents about examples of the introduction of CRM, the status of the establishment of domestic CRM and the necessity and trend of CRM will be discussed. Also the problem of CRM in the financial institutions and the improvement of CRM in domestic banks will be analyzed. When discussing CRM in the financial area, customers are the main source of corporate profit and through relationship management with the customers enhancing loyalty and maximizing profit can be obtained. Especially in CRM in financial institutions, maintaining existing customers makes higher profit ratio, so repurchasing and cross selling becomes important for obtaining lifetime value of existing customers who contribute to most of the profit of corporations. As a result, CRM should be completely customer oriented. CRM in financial institutions is not merely marketing work, but organizational competence which is made up of standardized work process through total process integration inside the corporation. Corporations which plan to introduce CRM should analyze the characteristics and conditions of corporations and establish purpose and strategy of CRM. And they need long term view to find out the factors which best fit for the introduction of CRM. To enable this, strategy composed of daily marketing activity and CRM concept is necessary. Also continued improvement through drill and training for operating organization should be followed to maintain CRM well. And corporate culture must settle customer as the center of corporate value. The race for introducing and improving CRM has already begun. CRM should not be regarded as a choice. It should be accepted as something essential. In this reality financial institutions should solve subdivision problem of customers and necessity of customers with the mind of 'customer's profit is my profit'. Customer focused management should not be emphasized only by words. Efforts like viewing from the customer's point must be nurtured to provide methods to help customers. That is, we should not just follow what is done in foreign countries. We should solve the problem of our customers according to the situation of our country, our industry, our corporation. Then we can gain the trust of customers, and the value derived from the customers will become the background of CRM which will lead the corporation to success.

정보기술의 발달은 CRM분야의 혁신을 가져왔고 많은 기업들은 CRM기술혁신 분야에 투자하여 개별고객가치에 의한 차별화된 고객관리가 가능하게 됨으로써 장기고객의 지속적 확보와 비용절감효과를 얻고자 하였다. 기업들은 경쟁력 확보를 위한 전략적 도구로서 정보기술을 이용한 차별화된 서비스를 제공하지 않으면 고객과의 관계 형성이 어려워 경쟁우위를 달성할 수 없게 되었다. 이러한 측면에서 고객에 대한 맞춤형 재화와 서비스의 제공이 필수적인 것이 되었으며, 기업 내 모든 자원이 전사적으로 통합관리되는 전사적 자원관리(ERP)시스템과 과학적이고 체계적으로 고객정보를 활용할 수 있도록 설계된 고객관계관리(CRM)시스템은 기업의 경쟁력 강화를 위해 반드시 갖추어야 할 시스템이라고 할 수 있다. 본 연구는 한국 금융기관에서 실행되고 있는 CRM의 문제점과 개선방안을 제시하는데 목적을 두고 CRM의 이론적 배경을 살펴보고 현재 금융기관의 CRM 구축상황을 분석하여 개선방안을 제시하였다.