| Abstract
Loyalty is a feeling of a connection to and a belief
in an enterprise and its proposition. The communication
services market in developed countries is now characterized
by low GDP growth, stagnating population and high service-saturation
levels thus reducing opportunities for pursuing a volume
based growth strategy for most communication service
providers (CSP). These, coupled with lower trade barriers
and a shift towards consumer power have served well
to re-define the need for churn management and create
‘loyal’ customers. Ensuring customer loyalty
has now become a critical business requirement. CSPs
do not wish to be left off the bandwagon; but the focus
across most of them has been to implement ‘point
based loyalty systems’.
This white paper takes a holistic view of ‘customer
loyalty’ and why point based loyalty systems should
be supported by relevant process re-engineering and
data model unification to derive full benefits. It takes
the process decomposition for retention and loyalty
as provided in the eTOM Version 3.6 and gives a detailed
stage-wise roadmap to help CSPs achieve the same.
Authors
Manish Kumar,
Sudeep Saxena
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