Pipeline Publishing, Volume 4, Issue 3
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Beyond OSS: Unlock New Profits with Lifetime Value Optimization

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  • each – for customer data, product data and real-time events, and to carry out commands from the policy engine.

  • Automation. Point solutions were fine for their day, but are too costly to implement in a market environment characterized by rapid quad play service launches – and equally fast service retirements. If the solution isn’t automated, it isn’t lifetime value optimization.

  • Centralization. Centralized/unified business policies are a must for ensuring consistent treatment of customers across all channels.

  • Personalization. The solution must be able to personalize the interaction experience for each customer, based on knowledge of their behaviors and preferences, and in context with a specific interaction.

  • Real-Time. Fast response time is essential, whether to reduce the impact of a negative event, or to make the most of a positive one. Care, billing, and service events occur in real time and must be evaluated accordingly.

  • Scalability. Service bottlenecks are unacceptable. The system must ramp to accommodate millions of customers and transactions.

  • Makes Agents More Effective – and Satisfied. Agent satisfaction and lower churn result as technology solutions help CSRs do their jobs faster and with greater confidence and support. Lifetime value optimization eases agent decision-making, ensuring universal, consistent application of care policies. The right solution improves both sides of the care equation: driving revenue by boosting customer satisfaction and loyalty, and delivering savings by enhancing agent satisfaction, loyalty and retention, and productivity.

With lifetime value optimization, service providers can keep this “next gen” customer... on the hook and buying more, for the long term.


Know – and Care for – Thy Customers

A recent Business Week article (“Telecom: Back from the Dead,” June 25, 2007) points to a major revival now taking place in the industry. Driven by Internet video, mobile data and social networking applications, this renaissance is fueling a new bandwidth boom.

The customers behind this explosive growth in demand for broadband are the young, affluent Internet generation who expect care to be on a par with the services they use – fast, personalized, and with the intelligence to know and respond to their interests. They will not sit on hold while a service provider fiddles with an order or request. A moment’s delay and the customer is “outta there” and off to a competitor.

With lifetime value optimization, service providers can keep this “next gen” customer – the primary market for triple- and quad play services – on the hook and buying more, for the long term.

 
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