Corporations are placed in a difficult situation that the have to survive in a competitive environment in the present as well as future. They have to plan and carry out continuous self-development and innovation, which should be directly connected to...
Corporations are placed in a difficult situation that the have to survive in a competitive environment in the present as well as future. They have to plan and carry out continuous self-development and innovation, which should be directly connected to the corporations' success. Many scholars are anticipating that 21st century will be a society dominated by knowledge, and advanced corporations in foreign countries are investing in acquirement, accumulation, and application of new knowledge regardless of expenses. In a competitive environment that are changing fast, knowledge and wisdom are necessary. These didn't exist from the beginning but can be made through continuous discipline, education, and experience.
In order to possess knowledge, corporations have to go through the process of finding the sources of knowledge and categorizing, confirming, and acquiring the knowledge they need. Also, corporations should share the knowledge and transform it into the one fitting their aim so that it can be applied. Corporations need not only internal but also external knowledge and they have to know well customers, who can bring them profits. At the present, corporations are making efforts to know and analyze customers using various methods, but the analysis has a limit: The knowledge analyzed by corporations is not the one possessed and thought by real customers.
To know customers, we have to approach their environment and mind, and the method that present corporations are using is estimating by supposing or imitating. However, the key to knowing customers is asking them directly and it is the safest when you borrow the knowledge customers have. For this, it is necessary for to make customers feel us as companions by building up an environment that they can share and provide their knowledge and cooperate with them.
This study aims at identifying the motive and infra that can satisfy them and enable them to succeed by coming out of existing customers control method focused on data and acquiring and applying the knowledge customers have. It also aims at enabling corporations to carry out more developed customer relations.
This study will prove that acquiring and applying customers' knowledge is effective and will come up with a stepping-stone to get rid of dangerous factors by having competitiveness in a competitive environment and extending and changing the corporation.
For this, the study have identified knowledge-oriented infra that corporations know and customer relations by conducting a poll of local corporations and have presented motives that can effectively carry out knowledge-based customer relations.