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The most important contemporary methods used for achieving the customer satisfaction are the use of customer acquisition processes and Knowledge about customer. In addition, the organizations currently try to discover the top solution to develop their customer satisfaction. They focus on the essential points of the customer knowledge concept, which are always evolving to exchange the traditional processes. One of the most critical evolutions in concept of knowledge is Knowledge about customer. Furthermore, Information Technology (IT) is based on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, which has has been working in many industry sectors (Alhawari, 2013). Recently, Varaprasad et al. (2013) have described that, the recent and rapid improvements in communications and IT have brought unprecedented change in the lives of the people.
Additionally, Moradi et al. (2013) described that Knowledge Management (KM) system must be able to adapt to most changes that arise in the environment such as changes in needs and preferences of users by respond to user requests, or in the organization, such as changes in work methods, tools and processes by able to take initiatives to attend to users’ needs. Knowledge and KM are considered as valuable corporate resources in the same vein as land, buildings, financial resources, people, capital equipment, and other tangible assets. That’s why, it has become vital for managers to improve organizational competency in the development of knowledge capture and transfer (Kipley et al., 2008). Furthermore, Ajmal and Kristianto (2010) noted that the debate on knowledge sharing arises from developing recognition of the significance of knowledge in the new knowledge economy and its impact on organizational competitiveness.
Recently, Ranjan and Bhatnagar (2011) noted that the analytic information connected to customer help in increasing sales, improving marketing strategies and delivers customer satisfaction in term of service provided. Additionally, Girinath and Ravi (2013) clarify that the motivation for CRM stems from companies’ desire to growth their revenues and profitability through better customer satisfaction. Furthermore, Nguyen and Mutum (2012) explain that as firms seek effective methods to measure customer relationships, many have turned to the traditional tool of customer satisfaction monitoring.
While numerous studies relating to customer acquisition and knowledge about customer model had been conducted, there has been a definite lack of academic effort addressing the issue of the customer acquisition impact on knowledge about customer and customer satisfaction model in developing countries. Lately, Kumar et al. (2013) explain that a good quantum of literature has been established in the area of measuring and analyzing customer satisfaction in general. Out of those, a limited paper works deal with customer satisfaction. Consequently, within the conceptual frameworks, they concentrate on how knowledge about customer could be implemented successfully by linking the customer acquisition process to improve customer satisfaction. Therefore, this study tries to contribute to this area by addressing one of the concerns associated with the knowledge about customer, customer acquisition, and by providing a reliable technique of employing the customer acquisition processes as an effective model.
In this paper, the problem focuses on the customer acquisition processes and knowledge about customer role. To the author’s knowledge, there has been no research paper, which has shown the direct impact of customer acquisition processes on knowledge about customer and their relation with the customer’s satisfaction. To fill this gap, this research has been conducted to address the idea. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to shed light on establishing long-term interactions with customers by using knowledge about customer to support customer satisfaction and how they can be build, while showing how the telecommunication organization in the Jordan applies the customer acquisition processes and knowledge about customer to improve customer satisfaction.