Abstract
Customer journey analysis is rapidly increasing in
popularity, as it is essential for companies to understand how their customers think and behave. Recent studies investigate how customers traverse their journeys and how they can be improved for the future.
However, those researches only focus on improving the process for future customers by analyzing the historical data. This research focuses on helping the current customer immediately, by analyzing if it is possible to predict what the customer will do next and accordingly take proactive steps. We propose a model to predict the customer’s next contact type (touch point). At first we will analyze the customer journey data by applying process mining techniques. We will use these insights then together with the historical data of accumulated customer journeys to train several classifiers. The winning of those classifiers, namely XGBoost, is used to perform a prediction on a customer’s journey while the journey is still active. We show on three different real datasets coming from interactions between a telecommunication company and its customers that we always beat a baseline classifier thanks to our thorough pre-processing of
the data.
popularity, as it is essential for companies to understand how their customers think and behave. Recent studies investigate how customers traverse their journeys and how they can be improved for the future.
However, those researches only focus on improving the process for future customers by analyzing the historical data. This research focuses on helping the current customer immediately, by analyzing if it is possible to predict what the customer will do next and accordingly take proactive steps. We propose a model to predict the customer’s next contact type (touch point). At first we will analyze the customer journey data by applying process mining techniques. We will use these insights then together with the historical data of accumulated customer journeys to train several classifiers. The winning of those classifiers, namely XGBoost, is used to perform a prediction on a customer’s journey while the journey is still active. We show on three different real datasets coming from interactions between a telecommunication company and its customers that we always beat a baseline classifier thanks to our thorough pre-processing of
the data.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 35th ECMS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION |
| Pages | 48-54 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2021 |
| Event | 35th ECMS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION - Web-Organised Conference Duration: 31 May 2021 → 2 Jun 2021 http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2021/index.html |
Publication series
| Name | Communications of the ECMS |
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| Number | 1 |
| Volume | 35 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2522-2414 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2522-2422 |
Conference
| Conference | 35th ECMS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION |
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| Abbreviated title | MS |
| Period | 31/05/21 → 2/06/21 |
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