Ending Balance<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n The term new customers<\/em> refers to customers acquired. The term gainers<\/em> refers to customers who bought more in this period. Decliners <\/em>refer to those who bought less and defectors <\/em>refer to customers who left. The customer value flow statement captures the following information about a company\u2019s customer and some of its key competitors:<\/p>\n\n\n\nPrice<\/td>\n | Quality drivers<\/td>\n | Retention<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nShare of wallet<\/td>\n | Gain<\/td>\n | Yield<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nNew customer NPV<\/td>\n | Current customer NPV<\/td>\n | Defector NPV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nAverage profit per customer<\/td>\n | Average revenue per customer<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n The gain rate is the ratio of new customers to the current customer base. The yield rate is the percentage of customers who actually convert to buyers, or sign up. As do Rust et al. (2001), Reichheld discusses the use of an acquisition\/defection matrix that shows how many customers defect from one company\u2019s brand to another.<\/p>\n To collect defection data, understand what are the components of quality and service from a customer\u2019s perspective, and enumerate which measures will represent the company\u2019s value proposition\u2019s success (in addition to the measures discussed here), requires ongoing customer surveying and other qualitative research techniques with their concomitant data collection approaches.<\/p>\n Customer satisfaction<\/h4>\nFor the past several decades, businesses have been determining customer satisfaction to help improve their customer-facing activities and predict and improve financial performance. Customer satisfaction, then, is an antecedent to some form of loyalty behavior. Customer satisfaction has been defined as a \u201csatisfactory post-purchase experience with a product or service given an existing pre-purchase expectation, (Vavra, 1997).<\/p>\n Vavra (1997) offers a model for customer satisfaction in which satisfaction is an antecedent to repurchase behavior and has several antecedents as well. The most important antecedent is prior experience that \u201cserves as a \u2018memory bank of all the previous experiences with a product or service. Several factors can influence prior experience, such as the customer\u2019s demographic characteristics, their level of personal expertise, the nature of the competition, advertising and PR influences, and the evolution of technology. Along with prior experience, customer desires and expectations, the perceived product or service performance and ease of evaluating that performance are all antecedents to a mental process customers go through to compare what was expected and what was delivered. This \u201cdisconfirmation\/confirmation\/affirmation process, in which expectations are not met, met or exceeded can be visualized as a sigmoidal function (Vavra, 1997). As \u201cperceived performance exceeds expectations, satisfaction increases but at a decreasing rate. As performance falls short of expectations, satisfaction decreases at a faster rate than it does for exceeding expectations (Vavra, 1997).<\/p>\n Following Vavra\u2019s model, satisfaction is an antecedent to repurchase behavior, but the relationship between the two is mediated by several factors including the industry structure and life cycle, switching barriers, channel structure, complaint management and relationship management. Within this model are a host of measures companies need to collect. Before data collection can be done however, the company must design a survey instrument. The challenge is to formulate a customer satisfaction survey that balances internal company-process issues with external customer needs issues. When designing this survey, companies can use a variety of qualitative data collection techniques to determine the product or service characteristics and attributes to survey. Once designed, surveys are distributed through a variety of channels: face-to-face, mail, fax, e-mail, web and phone. Standard data analysis and data mining techniques are then employed to understand the represent the survey data.<\/p>\n The linkage between customer satisfaction and financial performance is often cited as the weak link in the customer satisfaction discipline. Attempts have been made to resolve this by linking customer satisfaction with some notion of product or service quality and customer loyalty and retention. A model for doing that is pictured in Figure 3.<\/p>\n Figure 3. Source: Johnson & Gustafsson (2000).<\/p>\n To implement this financial causal model, Johnson & Gustafsson (2000) argue for a cyclical process that starts with identifying the overall purpose (strategy and planning), moves to building the \u201clens of the customer (qualitative research), which moves to building the quality-satisfaction-loyalty survey which moves to performing data analysis which then moves to making decisions before starting all over again.<\/p>\n Others have also linked customer value analysis concepts to customer satisfaction to address some of the inherent limitations in the customer satisfaction paradigm (Woodruff & Gardial, 2001). Woodruff & Gardial list the following differences between the paradigms:<\/p>\n \n- Customer satisfaction is a reaction to value received. Customer value determination tries to capture the relationship between the product, the user and their goals in a specific use situation. Satisfaction measures the gap between expected and actual product performance. Satisfaction measures and customer value determination complement each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Satisfaction measures are historical. They measure what has been delivered. Both the customer value paradigm and the customer satisfaction paradigm build out, through qualitative techniques, a model of how customers perceive value. The satisfaction paradigm applies to model to value that has been delivered. The customer value paradigm is not tied to post-delivery measures. Customer value can be measured before, during and after consumption whereas satisfaction is measured after consumption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The problem with many implementations of satisfaction surveys is that what is being measured are attributes of a product from a company\u2019s perspective rather than how the customer arranges their hierarchy of values in the context of specific use situations. This can cause companies to be measuring correctly but measuring the wrong thing.<\/p>\n Researchers and practitioners within the CRM, marketing and customer satisfaction circles have argued among themselves as to which approach: loyalty, satisfaction, value, quality or some other attribute is what matter most. The CVA crowd looks at CVA and CVM as the successor to the customer satisfaction paradigm. Customer satisfaction practitioners have expanded their model to resemble the CVA\/CVM model. In some respects, the debate is pointless, since nearly every paradigm tries to establish a sequence of causal relationships at three levels:<\/p>\n \n- Company behavior towards customers<\/li>\n
- Customer behavior in total (including factors outside of the company\u2019s direct control)<\/li>\n
- Financial results derived from changed customer behavior<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
The debate is about how to arrange the various nodes in the influence diagrams to model, more accurately, the causal linkages. The risk in all measurement paradigms is not so much inaccurately measuring, but in measuring irrelevant things.<\/p>\n Customer behavioral modeling<\/h3>\nEmbedded within brand-building and customer equity measurement frameworks is some form of a customer behavioral model. These models try to explain one or more customer behaviors by describing the antecedents on that behavior and the level of influence each antecedent has. The reason customer behavioral modeling is discussed separately here is that the market research literature is rich with studies that do not necessarily try to tie customer behavior to financial performance or company responses. Instead, the research simply wants to understand customer behavior better more or less removed from specific company goals, objectives or performance. In addition, researchers are focusing on new concepts to link to customer behavioral loyalty.<\/p>\n An example of this kind of model with its appropriate measurement issues is shown in Figure 4. Here the authors (De Wulf et al., 2001) are probing how different relationship marketing tactics impact customer perceptions of relationship investment by the retail company. Through predominantly qualitative techniques, including surveys, interviews and focus studies, the authors established measures and collected data to understand how each of the relationship marketing tactics did or did not affect purchase behavior. \nWhile this example is very research-oriented, companies can use these kinds of measurement techniques to understand customer loyalty behavior in depth. This detailed level of explanation can be useful for critical customer interactions, especially where the type of product, service or customer experience is unique to the company and no relevant research is applicable.<\/p>\n Figure 4. Source: De Wulf et al. (2001)<\/p>\n These types of measurement frameworks abound in the academic literature and are usually cloaked in veils of secrecy within the few companies that perform this type of research. The vast majority of companies, especially mid-sized and small companies, never go to this level of analysis to understand customer behavior. This measurement framework requires a robust qualitative research capability that is refreshing the data and revising the behavioral model frequently as markets and customer behaviors change.<\/p>\n by Vince Kellen \nMarch, 2002 \nCIO, DePaul University \nFaculty, School of CTI, DePaul University \nChicago, IL. 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