Clearly Define Your Business Objectives

​A leading US-based financial services firm wanted to implement a new pricing strategy for one of its lending products using customer relationship data. This objective required analyzing the price elasticity of their customers, identifying variables showing correlation with price elasticity and developing a model using those variables to identify the customers for whom price can be increased without loss of revenue.

Acquire & Synthesize Relevant Data

​We began by collecting data from multiple sources, performing QA on the aggregated data and removing outliers to avoid skewed results. Afterward, we developed a metric to classify the customers as price sensitive or insensitive. Under that metric, we defined thresholds for different categories to keep a reasonable number of customers in each category. We subsequently flagged customers as ‘Price sensitive’ or ‘Price insensitive’ who showed consistent behavior across multiple years, as shown in Fig. 1. 

Fig. 1 – Categorization as Price Sensitive or Insensitive

We listed a number of independent variables, both quantitative and qualitative, that could affect price sensitivity and defined them at the beginning of the analysis period. We analyzed the behavior of each variable with respect to price elasticity and shortlisted the ones which showed the highest correlation.

Develop an Action Plan

The customers needed to be segmented as either ‘Insensitive’ (those for whom price can be increased without any loss of revenue) or ‘Sensitive’ (those for whom price increase can lead to loss of revenue); out of the shortlisted variables, we picked variables without correlation to each other. Using these as ‘nodes’, we created a Decision Tree (Fig. 2).

Fig. 2 – Customer Segmentation

Having identified the ‘Insensitive’ customers, we created sub-segments for them based on their volume and recommended that price be increased to their segment average.

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Using this model, our client was able to identify the ‘Insensitive’ customers and implement a differential pricing model whereby price for a customer was changed depending upon their respective segments. The new pricing model helped our client drive revenue growth of over 20% without substantial increase in customer attrition rate.

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