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03/2011, all rights reserved www.rolandberger.com What customers really want
A customer-centric strategy for telecom operators
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Klaus-Ulrich Feiler, Klaus Fuest, Dr. Marcus Steiner
What customers really want
A customer-centric strategy for telecom operators
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Table of contents
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1. hy do telecom operators have difficulties understanding
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their customers?
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1.1 ustomer-related data in the telecom industry is becoming
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ever more complex 1.1.1 Data fragmentation causes complexity 1.1.2 Isolated data gathering makes consolidation difficult 1.2 ncoherent internal structures make it difficult to transform
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data into knowledge 1.3 tandards are defined by others. Apple, Google and eBay
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leverage their customer know-how much better 1.3.1 Apple, expert in customer understanding 1.3.2 Google, expert in data mining 1.3.3 eBay, expert in holistic customer understanding
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2. The customer-centric philosophy: From vision to best practice
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Stage one: Centralized operations
Stage two: Linear operations
Stage three: Interactive operations
Stage four: Holistic operations
How IT supports the transformation
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3. Outlook
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Idea: Customer