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Greater South Telephone

Implementation of Customer Relationship Management

GST Brief history


Year 1903 third largest local exchange carrier Year 2000 Providing a complete menu of state-of-the-art telecommunications services 13 million customer base 11 states 28,000 employees - $ 6 billion annual turnover Objective Improve Sales Revenue & Maximize Marketing Investments How ? Leverage the new Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) with Analytical Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions.

Current Situation
Data mart consolidation pilot program successfully implemented with a ROI of 65% and savings of $ 27 million in 1 year. Customer information could be accessed quickly, but no analytical tools available to improve take rates. Run cost for current CRM - $ 3 million annually with no measurable ROI. CRM resulted in Updated call center & new sales force automation tool.

New Proposal
To have single integrated view of the customers behavior by modeling of detailed data, thereby improving customer acquisition, customer retention and customer profitability. Implement analytical CRM solutions. First phase Business Discovery completed.

ROI calculation
Customer relevant for proposed CRM Incremental take rate Average monthly revenue Gross Margin Cost of calling incremental customers Depreciation Professional Services (consulting) Ongoing Maintenance AMC charges SOW bill Frauds Cost of capital Total Costs Net Margin (-) Taxes Net margin after taxes Investment ROI 5% $ 42 40% $5 13,000,000 650,000 27,300,000 10,920,000 3,250,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 200,000 630,000 50,000 1,365,000 700,000 8,195,000 2,725,000 1,035,500 1,689,500 5,000,000 33.79%

5% 14%

Suggested Solutions
The new CRM will help in targeting relevant customers. For example, married couples with two phones and children spend about 20% more on a monthly basis than the typical customer spends. Instead of obtaining 3rd party data, we plan to use incentivized referral program to existing customers for reliable sourcing of potential customers. Appropriate time frame for analysis will be from 2nd year, since the 1st year will be focusing on setting up of the systems and begin data collection.

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