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Chapter 16 Building the Data Mining Environment. The Ideal Customer-Centric Organization. Customer is king (not pauper) For B2C (business to consumer) - Combination of point-of-sale transaction data and loyalty cards
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The Ideal Customer-Centric Organization • Customer is king (not pauper) • For B2C (business to consumer) - Combination of point-of-sale transaction data and loyalty cards • For B2B (business to business) – traditional approaches (purchase orders, sales orders, etc.), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) of same, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software with intranet access for business partners • Customer interactions are recorded, remembered, utilized (action) • Corporate culture focused on rewards for how customers are treated
The Ideal Data Mining Environment • A corporate culture that appreciates the value of information • Committed (human and $ capital investment) to consolidate customer data from disparate data sources (ECTL – extract, clean, transform, load) which is challenging and time consuming • A corporate culture committed to being a Learning Organization which values progress and steady improvement
The Ideal Data Mining Environment • Recognize the importance of data analysis and its results are shared across the organization • Marketing • Sales • Operational system designers (IT or vendor software) • Willing to make data readily available for analysis even if it means some re-design of software
Reality (where “rubber meets the road”) • The ideal environments, organizations, and corporate culture rarely exist all in one organization!!! • Don’t be shocked…it’s hard work!!!
Building a Customer-Centric Organization • Biggest challenge to this is establishing a single view of the customer shared across the entire enterprise • Reverse of this is also a challenge – creating a single view of our own company to the customer • Consistency is needed for both the above
Building a Customer-Centric Organization Corp. Culture Data Mining Environment Mining Customer data Single Customer View Customer Metrics Collecting the Right data
Customer Profitability Model Payment Default Risk Model Loyalty Model Shared Definitions: Customer start New customer Loyal customer Valuable customer Single Customer View Figure 16.1 A customer-centric organization requires centralized customer data
Defining Customer-Centric Metrics • Business metrics guide managers in their decision-making • Selecting the right metrics is crucial because a business tends to become what it is measured by • New customers – tend to sign up new ones without regard to quality, tenure, profitability • Market share – tend to increase this at the expense of profitability • Easy to say customer loyalty is a goal…harder to measure the success of this
Collecting the Right Data • Data collection should map back to defined customer metrics • Customer metrics often stated as questions in need of answers: • How many times/year does customer contact our Customer Support (phone, web, etc.)? • What is payment status of customers (current, 30, 60, 90 days, etc.)? • Thousands of other questions
DM Environment & Mining Data • Data Mining group (team) is needed • DM Infrastructure to support is needed
Data Mining Group • Possible locations for such a group include • Part of I.T. • Outside organization – outsource this activity • Part of marketing, finance, customer relationship management • Interdisciplinary group across functional departments (e.g., marketing, finance, IT, etc.) • Each of the above have advantages and disadvantages
Data Mining Staff Characteristics • Database skills (SQL) • Data ECTL (extraction, cleaning, transformation, loading) skills • Hands-on with Data Mining software such as PolyAnalyst, SAS, SPSS, Salford Systems, Clementine, etc.) • Statistics • Machine learning skills • Industry knowledge • Data visualization skills • Interviewing and requirements gathering skills • Presentation, writing, and communication skills Cannot all be DM Rookies!
Data Mining Infrastructure • Ability to access data from many sources & consolidate • Ability to score customers based on existing models • Ability to manage lots of models over time • Ability to manage lots of model scores over time • Ability to track model score changes over time • Ability to reconstruct a customer “signature” on demand • Ability to publish scores, rules, and other data mining results
The Mining Platform (example) • Lots of architecture strategies – this is just one that includes OLAP also
Data Mining Software Review “Questions to Ask” Side Bar in book on page 533 (2nd edition)