Identifying and profiling High Value
Business Customer to develop
targeted proposition to further
increase ARPU and profitability
Stefano de’ Rossi - Paola Mandoloni
Agenda:
Shifting the definition: it’s all about Customer
Assessing the key CRM systems used to collect and
process Customer data to determine Customer value
Examining examples of tailored promotions developed for
high value business customer
Choosing divers to set business customers’ value
Drivers shaping the market
Customers are our most valuable asset
ARPU
Average cost
per minute
Traffic
distribution
Average
usage
Customers are our most valuable asset
Shifting the definition: it’s all about Customer
Marketing is the process of planning and executing
conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of goods,
ideas and services to create exchanges that satisfy
individual and organizational goals
Marketing is an organizational function and a set of
processes for creating, communicating and
delivering value to customers and for managing
customer relationships in ways that benefit the
organization and its stakeholders.
Source: American Marketing Association
Today Italian mobile market is approaching saturation. The
consequence is a radical shift in operators customer strategy. The
purely quantitative growth of the past years must be replaced by the
focused acquisition of profitable customers and the push to
maximize profits from existing customer
Addressing the loyalty challenge
Accomplishing this strategic shift away from the sheer number of
customer to attracting and retaining the most profitable ones, goes
through a systematic customer interaction and insight strategy
• increasing loyalty
• enhancing value
The importance of increasing loyalty
Increased loyalty of existing customers creates:
• Reduced dependence on “low price” as a marketing
strategy
• Decreased costs incurred acquiring new business
customers
• Increased efficiency created by familiarity with
customer needs
• Increased margins, higher profits and a greater market
share
Loyalty is a behaviour,
not an intention
When profitability and loyalty are considered at the
same time it becomes clear that different
customers need to be treated in different ways
• increase loyalty
• enhance value
Addressing the loyalty challenge
CRM approach
A “Customer Centric” approach
Identify
your
customer
Differentiate
your
customer
Interact with
your customer
Customize
some aspect
Source: Peppers & Rogers
121 Field Book
Agenda:
Shifting the definition: it’s all about Customer
Assessing the key CRM systems used to collect and
process Customer data to determine Customer value
Examining examples of tailored promotions developed for
high value business customer
Choosing divers to set business customers’ value
Identify your customers
The fundamental goal of market segmentation is to identify groups,
segments or clusters of customers that, from a marketing perspective, are
meaningfully different from each other. The purpose of such segmentation is
to create targeted messages that will trigger the desired response of
these customer (either actual or potential) in a more efficient and consistent way
Developing a deep
Knowledge of our
customer
Different CRM
Strategies for
different Customer
Supporting our
channels, sales &
post-sales, with a
unique “vision” of
the customer
Dimension & Value
segmentation
S O H O P M I
P L A T IN U M
P R IV IL E G E
PERSONAL
S T A N D A R D
S O H O P M I
P L A T IN U M
P R IV IL E G E
PERSONAL
S T A N D A R D
S O H O P M I
P L A T IN U M
P R IV IL E G E
PERSONAL
S T A N D A R D
Lineemedie
Evoluti -VAS Aziendali
Tradizionali Ricchi
Internazionali
VAS Personali
Intercom
AOM
Fissi Reperibili
Tradizionali Accorti
ARPU/customer Penetrazione
Marginali Ambasciatori
Sfide Diam anti
Potenziale
Sotto la m edia Sopra la m edia
SottolamediaSopralamedia
Potential growth
• High Level caring service
for High Value Customer
• Building more profitable
customer experience
• Different retention
policies
• Tailored offering
• Developing specific
loyalty policies and
campaign for specific
segment
Behaviour analysis
• Improving revenue
opportunities with
specific 121
marketing actions
(cross selling and up
selling)
Strategic CRM framework
1 2 3
Segmenting by dimension & value …
1 Customers are grouped by DIMENSION and then by VALUE (value
segmentation)
People use mobile services mainly for
business porpouse
People who buy may not be the one who
use
People who use may not be the one who
pays for mobile services (vas warning)
Different dimension…different issues
Strong competitive pressure
Margin or Revenue ?
Both Margin and
Revenue curves
have the same
customer
concentration
Furthermore,
revenue has been
verified to be more
stable than margin
which is highly
affected by cost
components
understanding the value drivers
such differentiation
allows tailoring the
organization behaviour
to each customer
based on that
customer’s individual
needs.
Averagelines
avg
4,3
avg 303€
Alfa users -Business VAS
Rich & Traditional
International
Personal VAS
OLO
Traditional & Safe
Fixed users
Intercom
ARPU
…. & behaviour
2
….. than by behaviour (traffic and vas clustering) in order to identify different
clusters that reflects different customer needs.
Three main drivers of “potential” have been developed: number of lines, Voice
usage and Vas usage
3
…. & potential capabilities
• Identification of the main variables linked to the key driver whose potential will be evaluated
(activity field, revenues, number of employees)
• Identification of groups of customers with the same characteristics in terms of behaviours,
activity field, revenues, number of employees.
• Selection of the “Benchmark Customers” (best 15%)
• Evaluation of the coefficients that link the variables to the key driver (numeric evaluation)
• Extending the coefficients to all other customer behaving the same group as of “benchmark”
CLIENTI BENCHMARK
ALTRI CLIENTI
Stima delle linee potenziali
Regressione
logaritmica
log(driver b)log(linee) = ααααιιιι ββββιιιι γγγγ* log (driver a)+ * + i * log(driver n)κκκκ +
Evoluti -VAS Aziendali
Tradizionali Ricchi
Internazionali
VAS Personali
Intercom
AOM
Fissi Reperibili
Tradizionali Accorti
Marginal Ambassador
Challenge Diamonds
CUSTOMER RANKING
Potential value
ActualValue
+-
+-
Different Customers…different strategies….
• ARPU monitoring
• Churn monitoring
• Consolidate ARPU
• Reduce Churn
• Increase ARPU
• Consolidate Churn
• Increase ARPU
• Prevent & Minimize
CHURN
…& level of service
differentiating caring services & levels according to customer value
Setting the “benchmark” Customer
Benchmark Customers
don’t seem to be much
“bigger” than non-
benchmark but show
off because of their
high annual
expenditure level and
the avg number of
lines
Benchmark Customers
don’t seem to be much
“bigger” than non-
benchmark but show
off because of their
high annual
expenditure level and
the avg number of
lines
Source: Busacca & Associati
7,3 3,9
0,5 0,3
592 € 310 €
Basic KPI
Avg lines/customer:
Avg lines/employee:
Avg expense/ customer:
Dimensional KPI
Avg number of empl.:
Avg Revenues:
Avg number of locations:
Benchmark
Customer
Non benchmark
Customer
14 13
1,75 € mln 2,18 € mln
2 2
Benchmark Customer vs non benchmark: example
Name:
Activity Field:
Employess:
Revenues:
Locations:
Number of Lines:
Lines/Employees:
Lines/Revenue:
Lines/Locations:
Edilizia Frappoli
Construction
15
1 mln €
1
5
0,3
5 E-6
5
MEI Sas
Transport
20
1,7 mln €
2
9
0,4
5,2 E-6
4,5
EDIL Srl
Construction
15
0,7 mln €
1
7
0,5
1 E-5
7
Source: Busacca & Associati
Non benchmark
Customer
Non benchmark
Customer
Benchmark
Customer
…integrated multichannel approach
Every interaction with a customer should take place in the context of all previous
interactions with that customer. One goal of every interaction with a customer
should be to acquire additional information about that customer that can help you
make decisions or implement new strategies.
Making every customer interaction a chance to strenghten loyalty and maximizing
arpu
Outbound calls
Inbound calls
Web/e-mail
Point of Sale
SMS-MMS
Mailing
….different campaign channel
Interact with
your customer
“Make Every Customer Interaction a Great One “
Sales
Force
Agenda:
Shifting the definition: it’s all about Customer
Assessing the key CRM systems used to collect and
process Customer data to determine Customer value
Examining examples of tailored promotions developed for
high value business customer
Choosing divers to set business customers’ value
Understand customers’ needs
Statistical
Knowledge
Market
researches
Feed-Back
from the Front
End
Customer
Profiling
Customer Profiling Systems
Information
system Index Calculation
0
2 0
4 0
6 0
8 0
1 0 0
Est
Ove st
N or d
Datawarehouse
DWH
User
Interface
Customer Profiling Application
Segmentation Clustering
Cluster 1
Cluster 2
Cluster 3
Data Mining
Reporting
0,3 0,6 0,8 1,2
2,2
3,9
6,4
11,7
20,5
30,3
42,2
51,1
90 9 1 92 9 3 94 9 5 96 9 7 98 9 9 00 0 1
Customer Profiling in TIM
KPI Indicators
Offers performances monitoring
and trends
Target for the New Voice offering
Analysis One to One
CRM Strategy: Loyalty and Retention
Customer Profiling is a tool for…
Churn prediction (Lock In)
Achieving segmentation &
Cluster modelling
Business
Knowledge
Data
Understanding
Data
Preparation
Descriptive
& Cluster
analysis
Customer
Value
Modelling
Segmentation
Customer
Quality
Business
Understanding
Setting up the knowledge
TIM success is built on Customer knowledge
To understand and forecast their NEEDS
To achieve a SEGMENTATION
To differentiate SERVICE & OFFERING
VAS
• PC Card
• Byte Blackberry
• MMS (Trad-Interatt)
• WAP navigation
• Unitim-Intranet
• SMS
DEMOGRAPHICSTRAFFIC
Understanding the value drivers
Customers are different … one size doesn’t fit all
Segmentation to identify like-minded customers:
based on behaviour first, then demographics
• Call statistics
• International
• Other Mobile operator
• Roaming
• Intercom
• Incoming/Outgoing
• Mobile/Fixes
• Employees
• # of lines
• Corporate Revenues
• Location
• Industry
• Billing information
• Credit history
Complex utilisation of Customer Data
Integration
of
models
Customer X
Target Client
Customer X
Target Client
Optimal offer
Customer X
Target Client
Optimal offer
Optimal channel
Customer X
Target Client
Optimal offer
Optimal channel
Optimal time
Customer
targeting
Customer
profiling
Channel
optimization
Contact
optimization
…………………
…………………
…………………
…………………
…………………
………………
………..……..
…………………
…………………
……………
…………………
Right offer To the right people With the right communication channel At the right time
Customer Contact Sequence
AcquisitionAcquisition
TimeTime
ValueValue
•Selective
acquisition
policy
•Welcome
•actions
•one2one campaigns
•tailored offers
•cross-selling
•up-selling
•loyalty program
Loyalty &Loyalty &
DevelopmentDevelopment
LockLock in &in &
RetentionRetention
•Value Based renewal activities
•Needs & value based retention
•“risk index based”
•lock in program
Prepare Program Campaign
Target group ChannelOffer
Offer C
Not-responders
Call A
Specific
group of
Customer
High
Value
Low
Value
Control group
Offer A
Offer B
Offer D
Control group
Responders
Not-responders
Responders
Not-responders
Responders
Not-responders
Responders
Call B
Mail C
Mail D
Mail A
Mail B
Calll C
Call D
DESIGN CRITERIA
• Cluster Value
• Churn Risk
Behaviour
characteristics
• Cost
• Effectiveness
• Behaviour
• Propensity to accept
• Alternative channel
• Time period
ex-ante ex-postSeasonal effect
ARPU (euro/customer)
+-
+ 8%
+ %20
+ %12
ControlCluster
T-1 T0 T1
EX-ANTE EX-POST
LOCK IN
CAMPAIGN
TargetCluster
Methodology
Monitoring: Ex Ante vs Ex Post analysis
Outgoing Voice (min.)
Vas Usage
Note: all data are just for examples
ProPro--activeactive
ReactiveReactive
Lock – In plan
Pre-Exit Call
Exit Call
@
Results and Feedback analysis
Lista
Clienti
Target
setting
Potential of
reference
Lista
Clienti
Outbound
call
Direct
appointment
Complaints
or request for churn
Lock in
campaign
Outbound calls
Direct
appointment
request for churn
Outbound calls
Retention: churn management
Customers at
risk
Retention offer
to keep
profitable
customers
Potential of
reference
Monitoring
Lines with
considerable
monthly
expenditure for
several months
in succession
Warning Indicators: Differentiated
offerings based
on customer risk
profile
• Expenditure level
• Outgoing traffic
reduction with
steady incoming
traffic
• MNP request
• Customer
Satisfaction level
Dynamic
management
• effectiveness
measurement of
implemented
actions
• dynamic analysis
of customers at
risk
• monthly update of
customers
database
Retention: Lock-in plan
Customers that generate the highest value are constantly kept under observation
and their behaviour is analyzed in depth to intercept any possible signal of risk
In search for loyalty ?….
Get a dog

Identifying high value customers

  • 1.
    Identifying and profilingHigh Value Business Customer to develop targeted proposition to further increase ARPU and profitability Stefano de’ Rossi - Paola Mandoloni
  • 2.
    Agenda: Shifting the definition:it’s all about Customer Assessing the key CRM systems used to collect and process Customer data to determine Customer value Examining examples of tailored promotions developed for high value business customer Choosing divers to set business customers’ value
  • 3.
    Drivers shaping themarket Customers are our most valuable asset
  • 4.
  • 5.
    Shifting the definition:it’s all about Customer Marketing is the process of planning and executing conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of goods, ideas and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. Source: American Marketing Association
  • 6.
    Today Italian mobilemarket is approaching saturation. The consequence is a radical shift in operators customer strategy. The purely quantitative growth of the past years must be replaced by the focused acquisition of profitable customers and the push to maximize profits from existing customer Addressing the loyalty challenge Accomplishing this strategic shift away from the sheer number of customer to attracting and retaining the most profitable ones, goes through a systematic customer interaction and insight strategy • increasing loyalty • enhancing value
  • 7.
    The importance ofincreasing loyalty Increased loyalty of existing customers creates: • Reduced dependence on “low price” as a marketing strategy • Decreased costs incurred acquiring new business customers • Increased efficiency created by familiarity with customer needs • Increased margins, higher profits and a greater market share
  • 8.
    Loyalty is abehaviour, not an intention When profitability and loyalty are considered at the same time it becomes clear that different customers need to be treated in different ways • increase loyalty • enhance value Addressing the loyalty challenge
  • 9.
    CRM approach A “CustomerCentric” approach Identify your customer Differentiate your customer Interact with your customer Customize some aspect Source: Peppers & Rogers 121 Field Book
  • 10.
    Agenda: Shifting the definition:it’s all about Customer Assessing the key CRM systems used to collect and process Customer data to determine Customer value Examining examples of tailored promotions developed for high value business customer Choosing divers to set business customers’ value
  • 11.
    Identify your customers Thefundamental goal of market segmentation is to identify groups, segments or clusters of customers that, from a marketing perspective, are meaningfully different from each other. The purpose of such segmentation is to create targeted messages that will trigger the desired response of these customer (either actual or potential) in a more efficient and consistent way Developing a deep Knowledge of our customer Different CRM Strategies for different Customer Supporting our channels, sales & post-sales, with a unique “vision” of the customer
  • 12.
    Dimension & Value segmentation SO H O P M I P L A T IN U M P R IV IL E G E PERSONAL S T A N D A R D S O H O P M I P L A T IN U M P R IV IL E G E PERSONAL S T A N D A R D S O H O P M I P L A T IN U M P R IV IL E G E PERSONAL S T A N D A R D Lineemedie Evoluti -VAS Aziendali Tradizionali Ricchi Internazionali VAS Personali Intercom AOM Fissi Reperibili Tradizionali Accorti ARPU/customer Penetrazione Marginali Ambasciatori Sfide Diam anti Potenziale Sotto la m edia Sopra la m edia SottolamediaSopralamedia Potential growth • High Level caring service for High Value Customer • Building more profitable customer experience • Different retention policies • Tailored offering • Developing specific loyalty policies and campaign for specific segment Behaviour analysis • Improving revenue opportunities with specific 121 marketing actions (cross selling and up selling) Strategic CRM framework 1 2 3
  • 13.
    Segmenting by dimension& value … 1 Customers are grouped by DIMENSION and then by VALUE (value segmentation)
  • 14.
    People use mobileservices mainly for business porpouse People who buy may not be the one who use People who use may not be the one who pays for mobile services (vas warning) Different dimension…different issues Strong competitive pressure
  • 15.
    Margin or Revenue? Both Margin and Revenue curves have the same customer concentration Furthermore, revenue has been verified to be more stable than margin which is highly affected by cost components understanding the value drivers
  • 16.
    such differentiation allows tailoringthe organization behaviour to each customer based on that customer’s individual needs. Averagelines avg 4,3 avg 303€ Alfa users -Business VAS Rich & Traditional International Personal VAS OLO Traditional & Safe Fixed users Intercom ARPU …. & behaviour 2 ….. than by behaviour (traffic and vas clustering) in order to identify different clusters that reflects different customer needs.
  • 17.
    Three main driversof “potential” have been developed: number of lines, Voice usage and Vas usage 3 …. & potential capabilities • Identification of the main variables linked to the key driver whose potential will be evaluated (activity field, revenues, number of employees) • Identification of groups of customers with the same characteristics in terms of behaviours, activity field, revenues, number of employees. • Selection of the “Benchmark Customers” (best 15%) • Evaluation of the coefficients that link the variables to the key driver (numeric evaluation) • Extending the coefficients to all other customer behaving the same group as of “benchmark” CLIENTI BENCHMARK ALTRI CLIENTI Stima delle linee potenziali Regressione logaritmica log(driver b)log(linee) = ααααιιιι ββββιιιι γγγγ* log (driver a)+ * + i * log(driver n)κκκκ + Evoluti -VAS Aziendali Tradizionali Ricchi Internazionali VAS Personali Intercom AOM Fissi Reperibili Tradizionali Accorti
  • 18.
    Marginal Ambassador Challenge Diamonds CUSTOMERRANKING Potential value ActualValue +- +- Different Customers…different strategies…. • ARPU monitoring • Churn monitoring • Consolidate ARPU • Reduce Churn • Increase ARPU • Consolidate Churn • Increase ARPU • Prevent & Minimize CHURN
  • 19.
    …& level ofservice differentiating caring services & levels according to customer value
  • 20.
    Setting the “benchmark”Customer Benchmark Customers don’t seem to be much “bigger” than non- benchmark but show off because of their high annual expenditure level and the avg number of lines Benchmark Customers don’t seem to be much “bigger” than non- benchmark but show off because of their high annual expenditure level and the avg number of lines Source: Busacca & Associati 7,3 3,9 0,5 0,3 592 € 310 € Basic KPI Avg lines/customer: Avg lines/employee: Avg expense/ customer: Dimensional KPI Avg number of empl.: Avg Revenues: Avg number of locations: Benchmark Customer Non benchmark Customer 14 13 1,75 € mln 2,18 € mln 2 2
  • 21.
    Benchmark Customer vsnon benchmark: example Name: Activity Field: Employess: Revenues: Locations: Number of Lines: Lines/Employees: Lines/Revenue: Lines/Locations: Edilizia Frappoli Construction 15 1 mln € 1 5 0,3 5 E-6 5 MEI Sas Transport 20 1,7 mln € 2 9 0,4 5,2 E-6 4,5 EDIL Srl Construction 15 0,7 mln € 1 7 0,5 1 E-5 7 Source: Busacca & Associati Non benchmark Customer Non benchmark Customer Benchmark Customer
  • 22.
    …integrated multichannel approach Everyinteraction with a customer should take place in the context of all previous interactions with that customer. One goal of every interaction with a customer should be to acquire additional information about that customer that can help you make decisions or implement new strategies. Making every customer interaction a chance to strenghten loyalty and maximizing arpu
  • 23.
    Outbound calls Inbound calls Web/e-mail Pointof Sale SMS-MMS Mailing ….different campaign channel Interact with your customer “Make Every Customer Interaction a Great One “ Sales Force
  • 24.
    Agenda: Shifting the definition:it’s all about Customer Assessing the key CRM systems used to collect and process Customer data to determine Customer value Examining examples of tailored promotions developed for high value business customer Choosing divers to set business customers’ value
  • 25.
  • 26.
    Customer Profiling Systems Information systemIndex Calculation 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 8 0 1 0 0 Est Ove st N or d Datawarehouse DWH User Interface Customer Profiling Application Segmentation Clustering Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3 Data Mining Reporting 0,3 0,6 0,8 1,2 2,2 3,9 6,4 11,7 20,5 30,3 42,2 51,1 90 9 1 92 9 3 94 9 5 96 9 7 98 9 9 00 0 1 Customer Profiling in TIM
  • 27.
    KPI Indicators Offers performancesmonitoring and trends Target for the New Voice offering Analysis One to One CRM Strategy: Loyalty and Retention Customer Profiling is a tool for… Churn prediction (Lock In) Achieving segmentation & Cluster modelling
  • 28.
    Business Knowledge Data Understanding Data Preparation Descriptive & Cluster analysis Customer Value Modelling Segmentation Customer Quality Business Understanding Setting upthe knowledge TIM success is built on Customer knowledge To understand and forecast their NEEDS To achieve a SEGMENTATION To differentiate SERVICE & OFFERING
  • 29.
    VAS • PC Card •Byte Blackberry • MMS (Trad-Interatt) • WAP navigation • Unitim-Intranet • SMS DEMOGRAPHICSTRAFFIC Understanding the value drivers Customers are different … one size doesn’t fit all Segmentation to identify like-minded customers: based on behaviour first, then demographics • Call statistics • International • Other Mobile operator • Roaming • Intercom • Incoming/Outgoing • Mobile/Fixes • Employees • # of lines • Corporate Revenues • Location • Industry • Billing information • Credit history
  • 30.
    Complex utilisation ofCustomer Data Integration of models Customer X Target Client Customer X Target Client Optimal offer Customer X Target Client Optimal offer Optimal channel Customer X Target Client Optimal offer Optimal channel Optimal time Customer targeting Customer profiling Channel optimization Contact optimization ………………… ………………… ………………… ………………… ………………… ……………… ………..…….. ………………… ………………… …………… ………………… Right offer To the right people With the right communication channel At the right time
  • 31.
    Customer Contact Sequence AcquisitionAcquisition TimeTime ValueValue •Selective acquisition policy •Welcome •actions •one2onecampaigns •tailored offers •cross-selling •up-selling •loyalty program Loyalty &Loyalty & DevelopmentDevelopment LockLock in &in & RetentionRetention •Value Based renewal activities •Needs & value based retention •“risk index based” •lock in program
  • 32.
    Prepare Program Campaign Targetgroup ChannelOffer Offer C Not-responders Call A Specific group of Customer High Value Low Value Control group Offer A Offer B Offer D Control group Responders Not-responders Responders Not-responders Responders Not-responders Responders Call B Mail C Mail D Mail A Mail B Calll C Call D DESIGN CRITERIA • Cluster Value • Churn Risk Behaviour characteristics • Cost • Effectiveness • Behaviour • Propensity to accept • Alternative channel • Time period
  • 33.
    ex-ante ex-postSeasonal effect ARPU(euro/customer) +- + 8% + %20 + %12 ControlCluster T-1 T0 T1 EX-ANTE EX-POST LOCK IN CAMPAIGN TargetCluster Methodology Monitoring: Ex Ante vs Ex Post analysis Outgoing Voice (min.) Vas Usage Note: all data are just for examples
  • 34.
    ProPro--activeactive ReactiveReactive Lock – Inplan Pre-Exit Call Exit Call @ Results and Feedback analysis Lista Clienti Target setting Potential of reference Lista Clienti Outbound call Direct appointment Complaints or request for churn Lock in campaign Outbound calls Direct appointment request for churn Outbound calls Retention: churn management
  • 35.
    Customers at risk Retention offer tokeep profitable customers Potential of reference Monitoring Lines with considerable monthly expenditure for several months in succession Warning Indicators: Differentiated offerings based on customer risk profile • Expenditure level • Outgoing traffic reduction with steady incoming traffic • MNP request • Customer Satisfaction level Dynamic management • effectiveness measurement of implemented actions • dynamic analysis of customers at risk • monthly update of customers database Retention: Lock-in plan Customers that generate the highest value are constantly kept under observation and their behaviour is analyzed in depth to intercept any possible signal of risk
  • 36.
    In search forloyalty ?…. Get a dog