Chloé Van Vreckem - Uncovering the true Customer Value by using Survival Analysis

Preview:

Citation preview

Uncovering the true Customer Value by using Survival Analysis

Marie WilloCustomer Intelligence and Rewarding Manager – AXA BelgiumChloé Van VreckemCustomer Insights Consultant – 4C Consulting

accessibleeverywhere

loves (to know)

their customers

connectedwhen needed

highly profitable

engages in every

interaction

we build customer companies

3

No global

view of the client

Author
No global view of the client:Business is oriented in separated business unitsWho is a “Real” valuable client?Ex. For some products high value, for others not

No Time

Dimension

Author
No time dimension:Use the past / no forecastingIs our current valuable customer still valuable tomorrow? Ex. Client is maybe today not profitable, however very valuable in the future.

5

No golden

standard to serve

Author
No golden standard to serve:No consensus about how to treat high value customersHow do I treat/serve valuable clients? Ex. Different loyalty/acquisition programs using partial information
Author
misschien een 360 view vermelden?

CUSTOMER MARGIN

Current customer revenue

CUSTOMER RETENTION

Customer tenure

CUSTOMER EXPANSION

Future customer revenue

CLV is based on 3 building blocks

CustomerValueManagement

at AXA Belgium

CUSTOMER MARGIN

Current customer revenue

CUSTOMER RETENTION

Customer tenure

CUSTOMER EXPANSION

Future customer revenue

CLV is based on 3 building blocks

The origin

Medicine‘Time is Crucial’

Business‘Time is Money’

Why considering

Survival Analysis??

Based on 1 model a global picture can be created of customer behaviour throughout time

1

Evaluation campaign on arbitrary points in time

Churn

Classic marketing program

30% stays

New marketing program

50% staysAFTER 12 MONTHS

Evaluation campaign on arbitrary points in time

Churn

Classic marketing program

20% stays

New marketing program

21% staysAFTER 16 MONTHS

Highlight moments in time where customers are at higher ‘risk’ to leave the company

New marketing program

Classic marketing program

Event = churn

Time (months)

Survival probability

More technical…

Probability to survive at any point in time: St =

Total probability of survival till that time:=

ni: # ‘survivors’ just prior time ti

di: # ‘deaths’ at time ti

We can use the entire population

2

Customers ‘out of risk’

By censoring customers(out of risk), all available informationis used

3Model variables give valuable customer insights for direct marketing campaigns

3

Which Statistical models??

Cox proportional hazard model

Most common used model for survival data (*)• Flexible choice of covariates • Fairly easy to model • Standard software exists • Well developed elegant mathematical theory

Few distributional assumptions • Non informative censoring • Proportional hazards • Independence

(*)Goetghebeur E and Van Rompaye B. Survival analysis edition 2011

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 120%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

S(t)=Survival curve F(t)=Cumulative Incidence

Time (months)

Definitions

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 110%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%Incidence Hazard

Definitions

Time (months)

Time Survival Curve Cumulative incidence Incidence Hazard

0 100% 0% 20% 20%

1 80% 20% 20% 25%

2 60% 40% 10% 17%

3 50% 50%

Definitions

Time Survival Curve Cumulative incidence Incidence Hazard

0 100% 0% 20% 20%

1 80% 20% 20% 25%

2 60% 40% 10% 17%

3 50% 50%

Definitions

Hazard

=baseline hazard, ,… , = covariates

Cox proportional hazard model

=baseline hazard

=-0.7 exp()=0.5

The hazard of men leaving the company is half of the hazard for women.

Cox proportional hazard model

Classic regression ignores time – time is crucialSolution: survival analysis

Advantages Use of entire sample Instantaneous risk estimation

Conditions Non informative censoring Proportional hazards Independence

In summary…

CUSTOMER MARGIN

Current customer revenue

CUSTOMER RETENTION

Customer tenure

CUSTOMER EXPANSION

Future customer revenue

Value of the client?

Target customers with the highest Customer Lifetime Value

IncreasingBusinessRevenue