
2 | Study
Table of contents
Management summary 3
1. Why do telecom operators have difficulties understanding
their customers? 4
1.1 Customer-related data in the telecom industry is becoming
ever more complex 4
1.1.1 Data fragmentation causes complexity 4
1.1.2 Isolated data gathering makes consolidation difficult 6
1.2 Incoherent internal structures make it difficult to transform
data into knowledge 7
1.3 Standards are defined by others. Apple, Google and eBay
leverage their customer know-how much better 10
1.3.1 Apple, expert in customer understanding 11
1.3.2 Google, expert in data mining 12
1.3.3 eBay, expert in holistic customer understanding 12
2. The customer-centric philosophy: From vision to best practice 14
2.1 Stage one: Centralized operations 18
2.2 Stage two: Linear operations 19
2.3 Stage three: Interactive operations 20
2.4 Stage four: Holistic operations 22
2.5 How IT supports the transformation 24
3. Outlook 27
The authors 28
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