Technology Acceptance Model in U.S. Extension: CRM Adoption

QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF TAM

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Figure 6: Reported Critical Success Factors — Interview Participants

RQ1 Findings: Benefits and Organizational Performance

Both interview participants and data from the landscape assessment highlighted a range

of perceived benefits of CRM technologies (see Figures 7 – 8). For interview participants, contact

and database management (19%) was the most reported benefit, followed by client insights

(15%) and engagement and interaction tracking (12%). Other benefits, including strategic

marketing and communications (11%), reporting and evaluation (10%), efficiency (6%), email

marketing (5%), revenue generation (5%), and other benefits (17%) were also reported. Other

categories include automation, customer service, personalizations, scalability, employee

onboarding, project and task management, and event management. Results from the landscape

assessment demonstrated similar perceived benefits of CRM technologies. Like the interview

participants, the most frequently cited benefits from the landscape assessment data were contact

and data management ( n = 15). Additionally, other similar benefits were present in this dataset,

including strategic marketing and communications ( n = 14), reporting and evaluation ( n = 8),

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