AI-Driven Computational Engineering for Sustainable Development

AI-Driven Churn Management Portal for Managing Churn and Retention

Author(s): Hemlata Jain*, Rohit Khatri and Anshul Bhardwaj

Pp: 1-24 (24)

DOI: 10.2174/9789815324037126010004

* (Excluding Mailing and Handling)

Abstract

Client retention is now just as important as client acquisition in today's fiercely competitive business climate. Since it is frequently more expensive to acquire new clients than to retain current ones, churn management is an essential corporate priority. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an increasingly powerful tool as companies seek more efficient methods to reduce client attrition. Traditional approaches cannot match the capacity to anticipate, evaluate, and react to customer behaviour that AI-driven churn management solutions provide. By foreseeing churn threats and offering useful insights, advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms play a crucial part in this process. Telecom firms take a multifaceted strategy to churn management. To build client loyalty, this includes: 1) personalised offerings, which entail developing service plans and incentives based on unique consumer demands and usage patterns; 2) customer engagement, which includes establishing enduring relationships with customers by being proactive in communication, giving excellent customer service, and responding to issues right away; 3) predictive analytics, which involves using predictive models to pinpoint potential customers who might leave and putting retention plans in place; 4) network quality, which entails ensuring a dependable and high-quality network to reduce reasons for churn connected to services; 5) competitive pricing, which includes drawing and keeping clients that are price sensitive, offering competitive pricing structures while preserving profitability; 6) data security, which inludes protecting consumer information and privacy that is important for maintaining trust and reducing turnover and lastly, 7) value-added services, which includes enhancing the client experience with cutting-edge features and services. The topic of telecom churn management is one thatis continually evolving due to the changing technologies and evolving customer expectations. Successful churn management can have a long-lasting positive impact on a telecom company's bottom line by not only preserving revenue but also fostering customer loyalty and advocacy. This study emphasises the significance of telecom churn management in a highly competitive market and the continual innovation and adaptation required to suit customers' shifting needs. This study implements a paradigm for managing telecom churn, which will assist telecom companies in maintaining low churn rates. To achieve this, the framework forecasts churners with a likelihood percentage, predicts their churn behaviors and causes, recommends consumers who exhibit similar behaviors, and suggests retention strategies for customers based on their behaviors. The administrator of the telecom company can efficiently manage telecom clients through this framework's user-friendly interface. This framework includes: 1) a comprehensive list of all customers, 2) a predictive list of potential churners along with their reasons for leaving, identified using the Random Forest algorithm, 3) detailed customer profiles that highlight individual service usage patterns, and 4) most importantly, an AI-powered retention solution that suggests targeted actions for customers likely to churn, based on behavior predictions generated by the TCCMR framework. The entire system is implemented using the Python programming language. This framework also suggests that similar consumers assist telecom firms in offering the same retention solutions to similar customers. The model performed exceptionally well in predicting churners, achieving outcomes with up to 100% accuracy.


Keywords: Churn management, Churn prediction, Machine learning, Recommendation system, Retention solutions, Telecommunications.