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Abstract
This research study is based on impact of customer relationship management practices on insurance sector in Odisha
market. The research study mainly focuses on the the pattern of service and the facilitation process for the sake of customers adopted by the CRM driven insurance companies in Odisha.Customer Relationship Management(CRM) practice is
now becoming imperative and need of the hour in the cut throat competition held in the insurance sector. Initially LIC of
India was the sole insurance player having larger market share but after liberalization, privatization and globalization so
many private insurers came in to the picture. Then they adopted many customer centric strategies to satisfy and retain the
customers to gain market share and to survive.CRM is a customer focused strategy adopted by many insurers in India and
Odisha.To recognize the perception of insurance customers in terms of service standard, innovation and quality of products, the efforts have been undertaken through this research study. In this study customers opinions have been collected
through a structured questionnaire to understand the effectiveness of CRM implementation in relation to the companies
like AVIVA, LIC of India, ICICIprudential, Birla sun life and Reliance. Here to measure the customer retention gained by
above insurers; factor analysis and group statistics have been used.
Keywords: service standards, customer focused strategy, customer retention, innovation
Introduction
Customer relationship management is an imperative
measure in any service sector.it is the main tool in marketing management to acquire more numbers of customers and to create one to one interaction with transparency
and honesty. Today the companies have to move from
managing a market, to managing specific customers. But
managing the customers and retaining them for long time
is not easy task in a competitive market. Besides coping
with changing psychology, preferences and needs of the
customers is becoming challenging one. So the business
organizations now a day are taking the help of data base
management system for customer retention and e-CRM
is the outcome of such system.
The requirement of relationship marketing is prominent
in the service sectors especially in Indian market to create trust and valuable strategic customer care. This will
definitely raise the concept of customer relationship
management for long term relationship and value added
service. This study will focus on CRM application for
insurance sector related to their communicating channels
for customers, customer satisfaction and customer retention. Insurance is an upcoming sector, in India the year
2000 was a landmark year for life insurance industry. In
this year the life insurance industry was liberalized after
more than 50 years. Insurance sector was once a monopoly, with LIC as the only company, a public sector enterprise. But now-a-days the market is opened up and
there are many private players competing in the market.
There are above 30 private life insurance companies
have entered the industry. After the entry of these private
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Importance of CRM
The focus in CRM is not to try to mold the customers to
the companys goals but to listen to the customers and
trying to create opportunities beneficial to each. It is important to offer customers what they are currently demanding and anticipating and what they are likely to
demand in the future. This can be achieved by providing
a variety of existing access channels for customers, such
as e-mail, telephone and fax, and by preparing future
access channels such as wireless communication.
Provides Greater efficiency and cost reduction: Data
mining, which is the analysis of data for exploring possible relationships between sets of data, can save valuable
human resources. Integrating customer data into a single
database allows marketing teams, sales forces, and other
departments within a company to share information and
work towards common corporate objectives using the
same underlying statistics (epiphany.com, 2001).
Improved customer service and support: An E-CRM
system provides a single repository of customer information. This enables a company to serve according to
customer needs quickly and efficiently at all potential
Literature Review
Swift 2002; stated that companies can gain many benefits from CRM implementation. Such as lower cost of
acquiring customers, to acquire so many customers to
preserve a steady volume of business. CRM can help to
retain the customers for long range. Apart from this he
stated, the cost regarding selling are reduced owing to
existing customers are usually more responsive. In addition with better knowledge of channels and distributions,
the relationship becomes more effective as well as that
cost for marketing campaign is reduced. According to
Maoz 2003, Research director of CRM for the Gartner
group, CRM is a strategy by which companies optimize
profitability through enhanced customer satisfaction and
retention. .CRM is a business strategy, not a technology, says Maoz.It involves process, technology and people issues. All three together really captures what CRM
is.Burnett-2001; discussed that the objectives from CRM
generally fall into three categories; cost saving, revenue
enhancement and strategic impact and having the benefits of improving level of customer retention, increasing
margins and decreasing marketing administrative costs.
Wilson 2001; claimed that organizations are becoming
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Table 1:
4.
Monthly
Income
Data Analysis
Occupation
20
29
20
06
07
06
16
15
07
11
12
05
18
12
08
71
75
46
69
30
39
19
13
06
38
19
19
28
08
20
38
15
23
192
85
107
69
00
69
19
19
00
38
38
28
28
38
38
192
123
69
69
21
28
20
19
08
05
06
38
21
10
07
28
14
09
05
38
21
09
08
192
85
61
46
69
19
38
28
38
192
Factor Analysis
The tables 2,3 and 4 below depict the results of factor
analysis, which helps in identifying different components of retention.
Respondents Profile
Data collected from 192 respondents are presented in
Table 1 showing the sample profile.
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Total
Research Methodology
Birla
2.
Education
ICICI
A
ge
Gr.I (Below
30)
Gr.II (3040)
Gr.III
(Above 40)
Total
Upto Grad.
(Gr.I)
Above
Grad.
(Gr.II)
Total
Gr. I (private
service)
Gr.II (govt.
service)
Total
Gr.I (below
20 th)
Gr.II (2030th)
Gr.III
(Above
30th)
Total
Reliance
1.
Insurance Organisations
AVIVA
To study the impact of CRM implementation in increasing the customer retention through testing the perception
among the respondents
Sample profile
LIC
Demographic
factors
S No.
Extraction Sums of
Squared Loadings
Tot
al
% of
Variance
1.7
68
13.59
8
13.598
1.7
68
13.59
8
13.598
1.5
27
11.74
9
25.348
1.5
27
11.74
9
25.348
1.4
25
10.96
2
36.310
1.4
25
10.96
2
36.310
1.1
78
9.064
45.374
1.1
78
9.064
45.374
1.1
20
8.617
53.991
1.1
20
8.617
53.991
1.0
64
8.84
1.0
64
8.184
1.0
35
7.962
1.0
35
7.962
.98
3
7.561
.84
4
6.496
.69
2
5.320
11
.54
5
4.196
93.710
12
.44
5
3.422
97.131
13
.37
3
2.869
100.00
0
6
7
8
9
10
Cumulative
%
62.174
70.137
Tot
al
% of
Variance
Cumulative
%
Component
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
F6
1.204
9.260
61.600
F7
1.110
8.536
70.137
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis.
Table 4: Rotated Component Matrix
Component
1
62.174
70.137
77.698
84.194
89.514
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o4a
.612
.079
-.042
-.080
.002
.203
-.205
o4b
-.142
-.263
-.145
.587
.471
-.053
-.287
o4c
.147
-.042
.067
-.301
.066
.768
-.218
o4d
.047
.824
-.129
-.059
-.097
-.054
-.142
o4e
-.093
-.170
.848
.063
.051
-.009
-.072
o4f
.000
.007
.060
-.102
.819
-.081
.107
o4g
-.047
-.053
-.044
-.074
.098
-.058
.886
o4h
.043
-.498
-.058
-.139
-.384
-.275
-.212
o4i
.161
.054
.114
.762
-.142
-.054
-.010
o4j
.071
.554
.628
-.009
.021
-.077
.071
o4k
-.040
.049
-.223
.333
-.346
.655
.206
o4l
.824
.171
-.184
.076
-.039
-.179
.025
O4m
.683
-.280
.218
.196
-.009
.109
.151
Behaviour
prediction
(F2)
Web
based
sales
(F3)
Promotion, distribution
(F4)
Sales
target
(F5)
Integration
(F6)
Value
proposition
(F7)
Sum of
Squares
Df
Mean
Square
Sig.
Between
Groups
5.674
1.419
8.267
.000
Within
Groups
32.089
187
.172
Total
37.763
191
Between
Groups
3.470
.867
3.759
.006
Within
Groups
43.154
187
.231
Total
46.624
191
Between
Groups
3.779
.945
3.952
.004
Within
Groups
44.700
187
.239
Total
48.479
191
Between
Groups
.246
.061
.436
.782
Within
Groups
26.338
187
.141
Total
26.583
191
Between
Groups
.482
.120
Within
Groups
45.471
187
.243
Total
45.953
191
Between
Groups
.339
.085
Within
Groups
46.722
187
.250
Total
47.061
191
Between
Groups
6.681
1.670
Within
Groups
84.632
187
.453
Total
91.313
191
.496
.739
.340
.851
3.691
.006
(quality service), the F-ratio is 8.267, which is statistically significant. Hence, it may be interpreted that the variation among the responses of the officials towards different insurance companies in terms of quality service is
significant. Similarly for the 2nd factor (behavior prediction), the F- ratio is 3.759 which is statistically significant and it may be interpreted that the variation among
the responses of the officials towards different companies in terms of behavior prediction is significant. For
the 3 rd factor (web based sales), the F-ratio is 3.952,
which is statistically significant and the variation among
the responses of the officials towards different companies in terms of web based sales is significant. For the
4th factor (promotion and distribution), the F-ratio is
.436, which is statistically not significant. Hence it may
be interpreted that the variation among the responses of
the officials towards different companies in terms of
promotion and distribution is statistically not significant. For the 5 th factor F ratio is .496 which is statistically not significant. Hence it may be interpreted that the
variation among the responses of the customers towards
different companies in terms of achieving sales target
is not significant. For 6th factor F ratio is .340, which is
statistically not significant. Hence variation among the
responses of the officials towards different companies in
terms of integration is not significant. For 7th factor, the
F ratio is 3.691, which is statistically significant. Hence
the variation among the responses of the officials towards different companies in terms of value proposition is significant.
ANOVA across the Demographic Factor and Components of Retention:
The table 6 depicts the factors of retention developing
the relationship level among the customers across the
demographic factors.
Table 5 depicts the results of ANOVA for different factors of satisfaction between the selected companies and
within the respondents. It is observed for the factor1
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Behaviour
prediction
(F2)
Web based
sales
(F3)
Promotion
,distribution
(F4)
Sales target
(F5)
Integration
(F6)
Value proposition
(F7)
Between
Groups
Within
Groups
Total
Between
Groups
Within
Groups
Total
Between
Groups
Within
Groups
Total
Between
Groups
Within
Groups
Total
Between
Groups
Within
Groups
Total
Between
Groups
Within
Groups
Total
Between
Groups
Within
Groups
Total
Sum of
Squares
2.088
df
2
Mean
Square
1.044
35.675
189
.189
37.763
1.307
191
2
.654
45.316
189
.240
46.624
1.558
191
2
.779
46.921
189
.248
48.479
.129
191
2
.064
F
5.531
Sig.
.005
2.726
.068
3.138
.046
promotion and distribution is statistically not significant. For the 5th factor F ratio is 9.994 which is statistically significant. Hence, it may be interpreted that the
variation among the responses of the officials towards
different companies in terms of achieving sales target
is significant. For 6th factor F ratio is .993, which is statistically not significant. Hence variation among the responses of the officials towards different companies in
terms of integration is not significant. For 7th factor, the
F ratio is 16.110, which is statistically significant. Hence
the variation among the responses of the officials towards different companies in terms of value propositionis significant.
ANOVA across Demographic Factor like Income and
Components of Retention
.460
.632
.140
Components
(Factors)
191
2
2.197
Quality
service
(F1)
41.558
189
.220
45.953
.489
191
2
.245
46.572
189
.246
47.061
13.300
191
2
6.650
78.013
189
.413
91.313
191
26.455
189
26.583
4.395
9.994
.993
16.110
.000
.372
.000
Table 6 depicts the results of ANOVA for different factors of satisfaction between the selected companies and
within the respondents. It is observed for the factor1
(quality service), the F-ratio is 5.531, which is statistically significant. Hence, it may be interpreted that the variation among the responses of the officials towards different insurance companies in terms of quality service is
significant. Similarly for the 2nd factor (behavior prediction), the F- ratio is 2.726 which is statistically not significant and it may be interpreted that the variation
among the responses of the officials towards different
companies in terms of behavior prediction is not significant. For the 3 rd factor (web based sales), the F-ratio is
3.138, which is statistically significant and the variation
among the responses of the officials towards different
companies in terms of web based sales is significant. For
the 4th factor (promotion and distribution), the F-ratio is
.460, which is statistically not significant. Hence it may
be interpreted that the variation among the responses of
the officials towards different companies in terms of
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Behaviour
prediction
(F2)
Web based
sales
(F3)
Promotion,
distribution
(F4)
Sales target
(F5)
Integration
(F6)
Value proposition
Sum of
Squares
df
Mean
Square
Sig.
Between
Groups
3.108
1.554
8.475
.000
Within
Groups
34.655
189
.183
Total
37.763
191
Between
Groups
1.977
.989
4.185
.017
Within
Groups
44.646
189
.236
Total
46.624
191
Between
Groups
2.074
1.037
4.224
.016
Within
Groups
46.405
189
.246
Total
48.479
191
Between
Groups
.375
.188
1.352
.261
Within
Groups
26.208
189
.139
Total
26.583
191
Between
Groups
2.051
1.025
4.414
.013
Within
Groups
43.902
189
.232
Total
45.953
191
Between
Groups
.514
.257
1.043
.354
Within
Groups
46.547
189
.246
Total
47.061
191
Between
Groups
15.326
19.060
.000
7.663
(F7)
Within
Groups
75.986
Total
91.313
189
.402
191
Table 7 depicts the results of ANOVA for different factors of satisfaction between the selected companies and
within the respondents. It is observed for the factor1
(quality service), the F-ratio is 8.475, which is statistically significant. Hence, it may be interpreted that the variation among the responses of the officials towards different insurance companies in terms of quality service is
significant. Similarly for the 2nd factor (behavior prediction), the F- ratio is 4.185 which is statistically significant and it may be interpreted that the variation among
the responses of the officials towards different companies in terms of behavior prediction is significant. For
the 3 rd factor (web based sales), the F-ratio is 4.224,
which is statistically significant and the variation among
the responses of the officials towards different companies in terms of web based sales is significant. For the
4th factor (promotion and distribution), the F-ratio is
1.352 which is statistically not significant. Hence it may
be interpreted that the variation among the responses of
the officials towards different companies in terms of
promotion and distribution is statistically not significant. For the 5th factor F ratio is 4.414 which is statistically significant. Hence it may be interpreted that the
variation among the responses of the customers towards
different companies in terms of achieving sales target
is significant. For 6th factor F ratio is 1.043, which is
statistically not significant. Hence variation among the
responses of the officials towards different companies in
terms of integration is not significant. For 7th factor, the
F ratio is 19.060, which is statistically significant. Hence
the variation among the responses of the officials towards different companies in terms of value propositionis significant.
Findings
Through factor analysis factors are extracted which will
facilitate the customer relationship management process
to retain the customers for the long range. These factors
are; quality service, behaviour prediction, web based
sales, promotion and distribution, achieving sales target,
integration and value propositions, which are all meant
for customer retention and are practiced by five insurance companies. In case of ANOVA across the organizations, it is proved that, promotion and distribution,
achieving sales target and integration are proved to be
the most influential factors to retain the customers for
long range.
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Conclusion
It is concluded that, the adoption of CRM by these five
insurance companies in Odisha market is proved to be
successful in case of product awareness, sales target
achievements, customer centric approach, integrated
sales effort, satisfaction and retention of customers. So
the CRM implementation has brought the huge change in
case of customer engagement and making the customers
a part of organization. It has also brought the changed
perceptions of customers towards the service standard of
the insurance companies. This CRM implementation is
not only beneficial for the insurers to get profit and value
but for the whole community of Odisha by experiencing
the honest and transparent process of insurers.
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