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Project Title
Managerial analysis of customer care, Mobilink
Project Team:
Project Leader:
Salman Qureshi (EMBA-Fall2010-003)
Team Members:
Muhammad Jawad Ali (Ex/M-Fall2010-025)
Muhammad Umer Malik (Ex/M-Fall2010-031)
Jawad Toor (Ex/M-Fall2010-027)
Project Location:
Customer Care Services Department of Mobilink, Lahore
Duration of project:
Approximately Three Months
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
All praise be for Allah who commands the entire universe &without who consent not, even a leaf can flutter. All thanks be for
Allah who has given us life, strength and sound mind to get
education and opportunities to research. All respects are for his
Holy Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) who enabled us to recognize
our creator and gave us the knowledge to choose between right
and wrong, evil & kind.
We acknowledge with sincere gratitude the help ofMr. Dr. Ali Sajid; without his guidance & suggestions it would
have been next to impossible to get there the ordeal. He is
absolutely a legend in the field of Management. In spite of his
business being chairman of the department, he arranged a
number of meetings with us which proved to be very useful on our
part.
Besides we also feel highly indebted to all related staff of
Mobilink Customer care especially to Awan Zia Raja(Contact
Center Manager) , Yasir Naqvi(Floor manager) , Mr. Muhammad
Ehtisham (Team Lead) , Mr. Salamn Qureshi for his kind support
during our whole project.
We are extremely grateful to them for devoting their precious
time in completing our final year project. May Allah bless them
with health & life.
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Abstract
The report reflects an improvement program which elaborates a complete audit of
Mobilink customer care service through several management tools like SWOT Analysis,
McKinsey 7S , Porter 5 Forces , Balanced score card and pest analysis.
The project begins with the introduction of Mobilink and its customer care services.
Then we have analyzed the internal factors which effect Mobilink and its customer care,
factors like its strengths and weaknesses and its external factors like the opportunities
currently Mobilink have and also the threats that Mobilink is currently facing even being
the market leader. Then we discussed the Mobilink customer services under the light of
Mckinsey 7S model. This elaborates various aspects of Mobilink and analyzes its
structure and the managerial processes within the Mobilink Customer Care Department.
Further in the report we designed the balanced score card for the Mobilink with respect
to its customer services. This technique addressed various roles and responsibities
issues with respect to their objective and also defined the targets in accordance to the
initiatives. Then the Mobilink I analyzed under the filter of PEST Analysis which
discussed various environmental factors and external factors usually are beyond thefirm's control and sometimes present themselves as threats.
An effective implementation of the findings from various tools will increase the reliability
and profitability of the Moblink customer care department. In short it was a good
experience to do work on such a practical project.
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Table of Contents
1.1. Principal area of Business: ................................................................................................................ 81.2. Ownership Structure: ........................................................................................................................ 9
1.3. Branch Offices: ................................................................................................................................ 11
1.4. MISSION STATEMENT ..................................................................................................................... 11
1.5. Mobilinks Vision ............................................................................................................................. 12
1.6. Goals and Objectives: ...................................................................................................................... 12
2. Introduction to Customer Care Department: ..................................................................................... 14
2.1. Vision Statement: ............................................................................................................................ 14
2.2. Mission Statement: ......................................................................................................................... 14
3. Analysis & Findings: ............................................................................................................................ 15
4. McKinsey 7S Framework: .................................................................................................................... 16
4.1. Style:................................................................................................................................................ 16
4.2. Staff (Human Resource) .................................................................................................................. 16
4.3. Structure: ........................................................................................................................................ 17
4.4. Skills: ............................................................................................................................................... 18
4.5. Shared Values: ................................................................................................................................ 18
4.6. Strategy: .......................................................................................................................................... 19
5. SWOT ANALYSIS .................................................................................................................................. 22
5.1. Strengths ......................................................................................................................................... 23
5.2. WEAKNESSES ................................................................................................................................... 25
5.3. OPPORTUNITIES .............................................................................................................................. 26
5.4. THREATS .......................................................................................................................................... 27
6. Porters 5 Forces Model ...................................................................................................................... 29
6.1. Power of Buyers: ............................................................................................................................. 29
6.2. Power of Suppliers: ......................................................................................................................... 30
6.3. Threats of new Entrants: ................................................................................................................. 31
6.4. Threats of Substitute:...................................................................................................................... 34
6.5. Rivalry:............................................................................................................................................. 35
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7. Balanced Score card ............................................................................................................................ 38
7.1. Financial Objectives ........................................................................................................................ 38
8. PEST Analysis ....................................................................................................................................... 52
8.1. Political Factors ............................................................................................................................... 528.2. Economic Factors ............................................................................................................................ 52
8.3. Socio-Cultural Factors ..................................................................................................................... 53
8.4. Technological Factors ...................................................................................................................... 53
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Introduction
In Pakistan, the Pakistan Mobile communications Ltd (Mobilink) started its operations
in 1994 and, until early 2001, had a market share of 40%. In April 2001, OTH took over
management control of the company. As the market leader, Mobilink serves more than
31.6 million subscribers, representing a market share of 31.5% (as of Nov 2009).
Mobilink, a subsidiary of the Orascom Telecom Group is Pakistans leading cellular
service and market leader with an unmatched customer base of over 31+ million
subscribers.
Mobilink has successfully achieved a record subscriber growth of 40 % in 2007 and with
over 6000 cell sites, has coverage in over 10,000 cities, towns, and villages, through out
Pakistan. International roaming is available in over 127 countries with more than 300
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partner operators, and the companys investment to date, is over US $3.3 billion. It
directly employs over 4,500 people, and facilitated through an integrated technology
infrastructure, has the largest distribution network of over 200,000 retail outlets across
Pakistan. The company is a carrier-class nationwide connecting service with its 6,500kilometers fiber optic backbone, and is leading the Mobile Commerce revolution with its
first lifestyle application,
Through The Mobilink Foundation, the companys corporate social responsibility
program contributes significantly in the areas of health and education.
The company is also the official cellular service of the Pakistan Cricket Board and the
leading Blackberry communication services provider in Pakistan.
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The Mobilink team is dedicatedly working each day to connect the unconnected and
achieve milestones that make history. Each Mobilink moment entails a new challenge, a
new moment of happiness, a new sense of achievement and a new success.
1.1. Principal area of Business:
Mobilink have two products
Jazz
Indigo
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1.2. Ownership Structure:
Management
President and CEO
Rashid Khan
Chief Strategy Officer
Tariq Rashid
Vice President Marketing
Bilal Munir Sheikh
Vice President Customer Care
Irfan Akram
Vice President Corporate AffairsAgha Qasim
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Chief Technical Officer
Ramy Reyad Kamel
Vice President Sales
Jahanzeb Taj
Chief Information OfficerIrfan Farooq
Head of Human Resources & Administration
Sadia Ahmad
Chief Financial Officer
Andis Locmelis
Head of Business Analysis and Planning
Farid Ahmed
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1.3. Branch Offices:
Its branch offices are located in Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad, Rahim Yar Khan,
Sukkur, Peshwar, Quetta, Swat, and Kohat. Moblink has three main contact
centers in three regions of Pakistan.
1.4. MISSION STATEMENT
To be the unmatchable mobile system of communications in Pakistan this
provides the best value to its customers, employees, business partners and
shareholders
Customer: Company mission Statement Company wants every common
man to be its customer.
Product and services: In addition to provide advance voice communication
services, Mobilink also offers cost efficient data services to its customers.
Keeping in mind the customer convenience company also deals in mobile
handsets sold either independently or bundled.
Technology: Company operates on a 100 % digital GSM technology in
Pakistan.
Concern or survival for growth: Keeping in view the growth potential of
the cellular industry Mobilink having a strong focus on maintaining high
quality of services, which is always a benchmark of Mobilink increasing
usage and exploring new revenue.
Philosophy: Company believes there is no compromise forthe Services in
order to remain portent force in cellular industry.
Self-concept: Mobilink has largest Network provider, Excellent Customer
Services, Highest Customer base which is its own identity.
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Concern for employees: Company is very conscious about its employees
and its striving for provision of attractive salary package, connivance facility ,
medical allowances and Telephonic facilities
Concern for Public: Company offers tariff plans that are exclusively
designed to cater to the communication needs of a diverse group of people,
taking into account occasional user to businessmen. To achieve its
objective it offers both post-paid (Indigo) and prepaid (Jazz) to the
customers
1.5. Mobilinks Vision
To be the leading telecommunication services provider in Pakistan by
offering innovative communication solutions of our customers while
exceeding shareholder value and employee expectations
1.6. Goals and Objectives:
Corporate Objectives
31+ Million Subscriber base to retain and come up with new promos to
control churn.
Best customer services providing across the country.
Remain on market leader with innovative communication solution.
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Departmental Goals
Smooth operations
Departmental coordination to ensure timely delivery
Cost intimation
Ensure offering Ambiance and decor
Providing full office related products
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2. Introduction to Customer Care Department:
It provides services to customers pre and post purchase to ensure that customer
expectations are exceeded. It is the largest division in the company.
The main sub areas of this division include:
Customer services operations (front end)
Customer services systems (contact center)
Quality assurance, standardization & training
2.1. Vision Statement:
To be the most friendly and easily accessible Customer Services Team
committed to Total Customer Satisfaction with Passion for Business Excellence.
2.2. Mission Statement: To promote Customer Services as a Mobilink Brand.
Every Customer Interaction to be a Pleasant Experience.
To promote MOBILINK as a truly Customer Oriented Organization.
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3. Analysis & Findings:
We have used various management tools to analyze the customer services
department of Mobilink with respects to its management, administration,
innovation and customer delight. Following management tools are used to
conduct the analysis of customer services of Mobilink.
Mckinsey 7S Framework
SWOT ANALYSIS
Porters 5 Forces Model
Balance Scorecard
PEST Analysis
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4. McKinsey 7S Framework:
The McKinsey 7S Framework is a management model developed by well-known
business consultants Waterman and Peters (who also developed the MBWA--
"Management By Walking Around" motif, and authored "In Search of Excellence") in the
1980s. This was a strategic vision for groups, to include businesses, business units, and
teams. The 7S are structure, strategy, systems, skills, style, staff and shared values.
The model is most often used as a tool to assess and monitor changes in the internal
situation of an organization.
4.1. Style:
Mobilink strongly believe in leadership style, which is one of the most essential
ingredients in its success. Leadership and top management is based on high
business vision and predominant supportive style. There is emphasis on
developing leadership qualities among employees at every level. For this
purpose, workshops and trainings are being conducted time-to-time and strong
follow up for monitoring of the qualities also carried out by HR team throughexternal companies like Possibi l i t iesetc.
Top management maintain open door policy, continuous sharing of on going
company and departmental development, takes input from employees in
decision-makings.
CC department management has habit of develop future managers by providing
them space to lean and develop through innovation and decision making.
4.2. Staff (Human Resource)
Human resource is the biggest asset and focuses on quality staff thats what
Mobilink believe. Staff at CC of Mobilink is very professional. Out of total
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personnel 90 percent of the employees have background of business studies and
mass communication while rest includes IT and other professionals plus interns.
The department strongly emphasizes on training and development of its
employees on continuous basis and spends around 2% of departmental budgeton up gradation of employee skills. There is a strong system developed for hiring
a new employee as emphasize given to the candidate having superior academic
records and professional skills.
4.3. Structure:
The company follows a hierarchical structure as follow:
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The department further contacts other departments through an online web-based portal
for problem resolution. Internally, teams are internally connected and a smooth process
of handovers of customer complaints and info sharing done due to open environment.
4.4. Skills:
At Mobilink Customers cares there are distinctive teams with specific tools of
skill sets. Every individual is proficient in its specific area of interest. Followings
are the teams name based on their capabilities and skill sets.
Contact Center Team
Black Berry and GPRS
CRBT/PRBT
Value Added Services (VAS)
Tariff and Billing
Corporate Clients
Mobilink CC has unique attributes of having CC system and representatives
serving in one international and four local languages (Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi and
Pashto) for customer delight.
4.5. Shared Values:
Values are important part of organizational culture. In fact its tagline depicts how
much emphasis it lays on core values. These values are practiced and focused in
entire Mobilink and breaching any of these values result in termination of
employee.
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Total Customer Satisfaction
Surpassing customer expectation
Trust and Integrity
Ethical, sincere and open in external and internal dealings
Business Excellence
Strive relentlessly to constantly improve as teams and as company and
services so as to be the best
Respect for People
Likeable attributes
Corporate social responsibility
Account able towards the social environment
4.6. Strategy:
Mobilink Customer care has adopted a Customer-focused strategy, where
customers segmented with respect to their revenue form Class A to Class D.
Highest priority is given to A-Class while least to Class-D in certain cases.
Teams segments to deal with different customer,
Pre-Paid and Post-Paid
Corporate Clients
IRU GPRS/BB Clients
Broad Band Unit
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Another strategy of catering and responding timely to a complain is followed by
Fig. Flow Chart of Problem Resolution Strategy
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Geographical Expansion of CC center:
Mobilink has planned to open more customer care center nation wide to further
enhanced its biggest customer support center in Pakistan and bring more
convenience to customer.
Inter Connection of Nationwide call Centers:
All call centers (Help line) are internally connected so customers have more
access available to the help line representative.
Term and Condition relief:
Term and condition relief provided to the new businessman for opening newfranchise nationwide.
Customer Follow-up:
The Customer is contacted by the CC team for acknowledgement of resolution of
there problems.
4.7. Systems:Every organization has some systems or internal processes to support and
implement the strategy and run day-to-day affairs. At Customer services and
contact center of Mobilink more a bureaucratic styled where major decision are
taken by the top management however decision making authority also give at
lower level (Associates, experts) to the extent so they can run day to day
activities keeping organization norm, values and customer delight focused. Inmajor organizational or structural changes the management also takes feedback
from subordinates and acknowledges their positive contribution towards decision
making. Initiatives for better problem solving strategy performance also highly
encouraged.
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5. SWOT ANALYSIS
An important step in situational analysis, which access your company's strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, is known as SWOT analysis.
Strategic situation analysis is divided into two types Internal analysis (strengths and
weaknesses) and external analysis (opportunities and threats). Internal analyses are
those factors that are internal to the organization; you can easily control these factors,
while external factors are the factors that are outside the organization and affecting your
business directly or indirectly.
SWOT analysis is used to analyze: Attributes of the company that are helpful to
accomplishing the goals and objectives, attributes of the company that are harmful in
achieving the goals, external environment that is useful in accomplishing your
company's goals and objectives and upcoming external condition, which are harmful in
achieving your goals and objectives. SWOT analysis is a powerful tool that helpsinvestors to judge, whether, the company is capable enough to achieve different
objectives or not. While writing SWOT analysis makes sure, the data you are writing
must contain relevant material.
Strengths:
Strengths are defined as the positive attributes of the organization, which are within the
organization's control. Such as, specialist marketing and advertising skills, patents,
introduction of new and innovative product or service, site of your business, cost benefit
through proprietary knowledge, strong reputation, exclusive access to natural
resources, quality development and procedures, etc.
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Weaknesses:
Factors that are within the organization control and can easily be improved. It is
necessary to take care of your weaknesses because these factors can detract you in
achieving your goals and objectives. These factors are: lack or advertising andmarketing skills, site of your business, poor quality of your product and service (i.e. in
relation to your competitors), damage reputation, distribution channel, limited resources,
etc.
Opportunities:
Opportunities are the external factors that are providing benefit your business directly or
indirectly. Such as, market growth, careful research about market, market size, etc.
Threats:
These are also the external factors, which are not in organization's control, but they can
seriously damage your organization mission. Threats include: competition, economic
crises, earthquakes, competition, price war, new regulations, tax policy, etc.
SWOT ANALYSIS of Mobilink
5.1. Strengths
Mobilink has network coverage in more than 10,000 cities, towns and across all
major highways of the country.
Mobilink provides International Roaming facility with more than 150 international
operators across 79 countries.
Mobilink is proud to have an efficient and friendly customer service through 20
company-owned Sales & Customer Service Centers and nearly 3119 franchisees
across the country.
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Mobilink has always believed in a solid commitment to growth, security and
reliability. Therefore, Mobilink has always balanced its expansion efforts and
quality of service. With a total current investment of $3.3 billion.
As mobile users in the country have reached over 78 million at a very rapid pace,
Mobilink has maintained itself as the largest cellular operator in Pakistan with a
subscriber base of around 31.6 million and a market share of nearly 31.5%.
While keeping its tradition of being the trend setter in the industry, Mobilink
changed the image of mobile phones from a luxury only affordable by the elite, to
a necessity affordable by the common man.
Mobilink increased its focus on the youth segment (which comprises 50% of the
population), with the Prepay brand.
Mobilink has the ability to retain its existing customer base with a high level of
customer satisfaction via optimum network service and a 24 hour call center
facility.
It has the post paid service that is normally to attract the Business class people.
Most of the business and elite class people use post paid and other services offered
by the Mobilink.
Mobilink was the first cellular Company in Pakistan that introduced the service of
GPRS and hence took the competitive advantage.
Mobilink post paid is also offering black berry set that is useful and tempting for
the Business class.
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5.2. WEAKNESSES
Mobilink does not have the proper lists of its customers. It has the list but this list
is not authentic which is increasing the unauthorized use of its sim specially pre
pay. Mobilink have to take serious steps to properly list its customers to ensure
that there is no misuse.
Mobilink has many franchises in the whole country but as its customers are
increasing day by day so its present franchises are not enough to fulfill the needs
of it customers.
Mobilink also face problems and its network get jammed on special occasions
like Eid, Christmas, New year etc.
Mobilink has the problem of voice quality. Though its coverage area is vast and it
covers more than 10,000 towns and cities in Pakistan but the voice quality is not
as good as it should be.
Mobilink though has some unique and distinct services but it has not yet given
many innovative services as compared to other cellular companies.
Mobilink was the first to introduce the SMS packages but their packages are not
flexible enough and its charges are only on monthly bases while it should be on
both monthly and daily basis.
Call rates from Mobilink to Mobilink is very cheap but to other networks its rates
are expensive.
Its coverage on Southern part of Pakistan is quite good but in northern areas its
coverage is a bit poor.
In Mobilink web support is not available.
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5.3. OPPORTUNITIES
MOBILINK could develop some new and innovative services to attract customers
and some of the suggestions are as under which will help them to increase their
revenues: They should also introduce some International call packages to Middle
Eastern countries because there are lots of Pakistanis who are living in those
countries so people will definitely be tempted towards such package.
Mobilink should develop some new franchises in remote areas so that people will
get more and more benefit from it and it will help to increase their customers.
As in Pakistan Youth is almost the 50% of the population so Mobilink can take
advantage of this demographic situation and should introduce more and more
services and packages that attracts youth towards it.
Should extend its network coverage area to Northern part of the country as
well because in that part not too many companies are giving services and if
Mobilink give its service there then it will definitely attract people and its number
of
customers will shoot like a rocket.
It should also introduce some packages for internet users on mobile if it do so
then many people will switch from other networks towards it.
If Mobilink should enhance its voice quality then definitely it would be prefer more
by customers.
Mobilink should import technological equipments from China because they are
giving the best technology at very low rates so it will not only help Mobilink to be
ahead technologically but also will help Mobilink to decrease its cost.
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Mobilink can surprise its competitors by introducing Mobilink kiosk. These will
be ATM like machines and that will give 24-hour service to Mobilink subscribers
to load the balance just like they take money from ATM.
5.4. THREATS
As Mobilink is cellular company and there is cut throat competition among
cellular companies in Pakistan. There are four other companies also working in
Pakistan so Mobilink would have to face some growing competitive pressures.
Pakistan is facing some serious economic problems now days so that would also
affect Mobilink. The current recession in market is not good for any kind of
business including telecommunication.
In Balochistan and FATA where Mobilink already has network coverage is in
danger because of critical situation and operation being held there. Investment of
Mobilink is in danger.
Mobilink penetrated in the market from 2005 to 2006 quite rapidly but since then
it is experiencing a bit slower growth.
By the arrival of China Mobile Company (Zong) in cellular industry of Pakistan
the Mobilink and other companies now have to face the severe competition. As
Zong is introducing some various attractive packages of both SMS and calls to
attract customers. Mobilink have to develop strategies to counter their strategyand to survive in the market.
The key threat to Mobilink is also some adverse Government policies of
implementing Tax on telecommunication industry that will ultimately affect the
revenues.
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Telenor is giving more benefits to its employees as compared to Mobilink so
many of its skillful and competent employees are going there. That will affect the
companys profitability in the long run.
Some Pressure groups are protesting on the Towers that are installed in
residential areas. Their opinion is that it is not good for health of people to have
such towers near their homes that cause radiations.
Mobilink have to revise the list of subscribers who are legal and authorized.
Because
now the Government has warn to take strict action if any company would not
keep such record.
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6.Porters 5 Forces Model
This model helps us define and realize our business and its surroundings and identify
threats and opportunities to focus on.
The Porter Model consists of 5 elements which together comprises the environment
business operate in. These elements are: suppliers power, customers power, new
entrants, existing competitors and the rivalry.
By assessing every one of these elements we get the whole picture of our company
within the market and the rating helps us target the key areas.
6.1. Power of Buyers:
6.1.1. Corporate buyers
There are corporate buyers of Mobilink which squeeze the business profit by
bargaining on their favor. This factor is draw back for Mobilink that theorganization is not in state to loose its customer so customer bargain power
is high. Individual clients has no bargain power, rather they switch to other
network.
6.1.2. Bargain for more offers
Corporate clients bargain for more offers like reduce call/sms rates, wave
off some percentage in huge calling bills, wavier in line rents and Mobilink
has to take care of such offers. Such offers are provided to corporate
customer but in limited ways.
The same offer provide to individual customer through promotion run by
the Mobilink at certain period in a year (during mid of year).
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6.1.3. Quality of service
When customers are not being provided what they demand in terms of
promotion and other benefits, the bargaining increases but Mobilink
compensate its corporate customer by giving them rebate by offering them
easy packages of their choice to cater such issues.
6.2. Power of Suppliers:
6.2.1. Human Resource Supplier
Mobilink is hiring some of the percentage of their employees from
outsourcing through HRGS. They have low bargaining power because
switching cost is too low as there are so many competitors available who are
providing human resources.
6.2.2. Handouts & Literature Suppliers
They have low bargaining power because switching cost is too low as there
are so many competitors available who are providing such kind of material.
6.2.3. Handheld Devices Suppliers
These are the suppliers providing specific handheld devices like BlackBerry,
Samsung and Motorolla and they have also low bargaining power since only
Mobilink is offering their products with their brand tag.
6.2.4. High Tech Software Suppliers
These are the suppliers providing softwares used in Customer care centers.
Nowadays Moblink is upgrading their software from (E.Point) to Sibel. So
they have high bargaining power as they now that it is a basic need of
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Mobilink to upgrade their technology from older one to compete in the
market.
6.2.5. Backbone IT/Access Networks
These are the switching/network equipment suppliers and have low
bargaining power as multi-vendor/manufacture equipment is available at low
cost.
6.3. Threats of new Entrants:
6.3.1. High call rates
The call rates of Mobilink general packages (local and International) like
Jazz and Indigo are slightly higher. This might be a threat to Mobilink for
competition.
6.3.2. High SMS rates (local & international)
Another threat is that there are no special offers in Mobilink for SMS
packages for attracting the customer.
6.3.3. Advanced Technology Required (3G)
There is need of advance technology in Mobilink. Having this technology we
are able to make video calls. But its license is very expensive.
6.3.4. Less Network availability
Some times, customers have complaints that we have no service in our area
or we have no coverage inside of our office. To cater this problem, the
customer services department should have strong interaction with the
technical departments and the call centers. When such complaint arises, the
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call center should provide the on ground realities to customer at first
process. This will increase trust and good quality of service.
6.3.5. Minimum CS centers across cities
Mobilink have less customer service centers across cities in Pakistan. For
example in Lahore there are
Mobilink House Customer care
Eden Center Customer care
6.3.6. No CS Center in rural areas
Mobilink has no customer care centers in rural areas of Pakistan. Mostly
there are franchisees which are usually indirect part of company and are not
fully equipped.
6.3.7. Strict Policies from PTA for security measures
Mobilink abide by the rules and regulations from PTA for security measures
and due to this the product sales effect the business of Mobilink but barrier
has low impact as all companies have to follow the rules and regulation
imposed by PTA for example no new SIM or duplicate SIM will be issued to
customer without original CNIC seen. So this might be a barrier for new
entrants.
6.3.8. New technology required at Technical End
The customer care department some time faces complaints of poor quality
of service but not from customer center point of view but indirectly technical
point of view. Mobilink is using some old technology at certain areas across
Pakistan as it is oldest telecom company so some times, the connections
between operators could not be established and this is due to adopting old
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technology used technical core.
6.3.9. Dedicated Enthusiastic staff
Mobilink has dedicated and enthusiastic staff in customer care department
and call center department who work very hard to except the challenges and
tried hard to facilitate the customer on priority. We had visited customer
services for examine its working and found that every employee work out of
the way to meet the customer needs. Employees work 24 * 7 for handing
customers requirements. So it can also be a barrier for new entrants.
6.3.10. Complaint handling on priority
Another barrier for the new entrants is that, in Mobilink the complaints
handling department work efficiently and Mobilink have extra experienced
and specialized staff appointed to solve the customer complaints.
6.3.11. Regional language support
To understand the customer needs, Mobilink have innovatively emphasis on
language to meet the customer needs. The language support at 111 is as
follows:
Urdu, English, Punjabi, Pushto, Sindhi
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6.4. Threats of Substitute:
6.4.1. Poor Quality of services
If poor quality of service is given to customers, they might not use our
product. Mobilink has draw back for not providing its product after 5:30 pm
which is too early to be closed. Mobilink should focus on how to operate at
late working hours to meet the substitute targets.
6.4.2. Use of old technology
The technology (software) at customer care Mobilink is old and most of the
work like complaints handling is done manually. While in zong, when you
register your complaint, you will receive the track number of your complaint
through sms and complaint status can be checked any time any where.
6.4.3. Less customer care locations in rural areas
As already discussed that as there are less number of customer care
location of Mobilink, they might have loose business and their competitors
might take place through other marketing techniques.
6.4.4. Few staff at CC for complaint handling
As Mobilink have special and experienced staff for critical complaint
handling but the staff is very few as compared to zong and telenor who have
staff of 6 and 9 person respectively, while at Mobilink customer care only 4
persons handle critical customer complaints.
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6.4.5. Extra cost for reissuance of SIM
Although all telecom operators have SIM reissuance charges but some
operators have raising campaign for some times when customer can reissue
his/her SIM (stolen & damaged) with out any cost.
6.4.6. High internet charges
This factor is not in favor of the Mobilink as Mobilink internet charges are
higher than those of telenor and zong. Warid has same charges like
Mobilink.
6.4.7. Poor signal strength at rural areas
Due to use of old technology of equipment by Mobilink in some rural areas,
this will decrease signal strength in rain and fog which impact the service
and have better chance for other operators to take over the customer.
6.5. Rivalry:
6.5.1. Innovative offers
The innovative offers which are being offered at Mobilink are packages,
customer services and other features like bolo sms and many more are an
additional aid for making Mobilink favorite cellular network across Pakistan.
6.5.2. Commercials
The Mobilink has a variety of its commercial which is representing Mobilink
culture and innovative ideas which reflects the dedication and hard work of
its marketing department, with coordination of customer care department
which give the marketing department, feedback from the customers.
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6.5.3. Coverage of cities
It was communicated earlier that Mobilink has a wide coverage area across
Pakistan. As per data collection from Mobilink customer care, Mobilink have
five regions that are Central 1, Central 2, Central 3, North and south region.
There are 8000 cell sites across Pakistan which covers almost all major
cities of Pakistan including rural areas. The need for more cell sites is
required at rural areas as customer increases with the passage of time. This
is in favor of Mobilink as Mobilink has wider coverage range. The second
coverage network is Telenor, third one is Ufone and so forth.
6.5.4. Advance technology (3G)
Mobilink is trying hard to get the 3G license to give its customers a unique
experience in telecom industry. As per Mobilink officials, for purchase of
license, we had talk to Orascom Telecom and they are making certain
changes before implementation and deployment of 3G at Mobilink network.
Right now Mobilink is working on technology improvement plans which are
compatible with 3G network equipment. In first phase the old technology in
some regions have been upgraded from Motorola to Huawei and in 2nd
phase the mobilink starts deploying the interface modules which are
compatible with 3G equipment.
6.5.5. Low call rates
This is also major feature which is being used by the customers. The count
recorded on Mobilink portal was 189763 minutes per day. This is very
attractive service which is provided by all operators in Pakistan. Customer
care department is trying hard to work in reducing rates of call and negotiate
with PTA officials for the promotion of the Mobilink and to compete with
other rivalries.
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6.5.6. Low SMS rates
This is another major feature which is being used by most of the customers.
The SMS count recorded on Mobilink portal was 482347 in C1 region. This
is very attractive service which is provided by all operators in Pakistan.
Customer care department is trying hard to work in reducing rates of sms
and negotiate with PTA officials for the promotion of the Mobilink and to
compete with other rivalries.
6.5.7. Quality of service
The quality of services is an important factor among competitors. Mobilink is
now improving its network and provide quality of service to its customers.Mobilink technical is deploying mini cell sites at shopping malls and other
congested areas where Mobilink signal strength is weak.
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7. Balanced Score card
Customer support organizations are asked to perform a difficult balancing act. Mobilink
Customer Care Balanced Scorecard for Customer Support recognizes the strains
placed on the organization by including apparently contradictory outcomes such as
reduced cost and increased customer loyalty in the same model. It also highlights the
business processes that provide the key leverage points for improving performance for
customer care against the scorecard.
The Objectives and Metrics
The scorecard provides Mobilink customer care objectives in each area: financial,
customer, process, and capability of the Customer Care department. Because
objectives are only meaningful if performance against them can be measured, weve
included metrics for each.
7.1. Financial Objectives
7.1.1. Increased profitability.At the highest level, in Mobilinks Customer Care
Department exist to make the business concern more profitable by thefollowing:
ensuring customer repeat purchases
boosting the reputation of the company and its products in the
marketplace
helping customers receive value from their purchase
Maximizing their lifetime revenue and profitability
Additionally, because franchises are increasingly being managed as profit
centers, support offerings themselves must be as profitable as possible.
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7.1.2. Increased revenue.
Mobilink exists to drive top-line revenue for the business which should be
reflected in more bottom-line profit. Similarly, increased revenue for support
offerings is a measure of their value to the market, and good customerservice at the same time
7.1.3. Lower cost
Whether a profit or cost center, Mobilink is delivering each unit of support
at a lower cost than before. Lower cost is the exclusive focus of traditional
ROI analyses, and it remains a mandatory test for most investments
7.2. Customer Objectives:
7.2.1. Customer Loy al ty.
The most important driver of lifetime customer value is loyalty or what
author Chip Bell calls customer love. Loyal customers have an emotional
connection with the company and are proud to be its customer. While a
perfectly satisfied customer might be willing to switch suppliers for the right
offer, a loyal customer wont. One of the most important drivers of loyalty is
customer interactions, especially when something has gone wrong. Thats
why Mobilink is in such a good position to drive customer loyalty, and why it
must be measured on the loyalty it creates
7.2.2. Satisfact ion with Support Exp er iences.
When we ask customer support executives what their highest priority is, the
answer we hear most often is customer satisfaction. Fundamentally, it is
their teams job to satisfy customers by fixing their problems quickly, giving
them the information they need to use products effectively, helping them
avoid problems, and even empowering them to be better informed buyers.
However, satisfaction is no substitute for loyalty. So Mobilink is focusing not
on average satisfaction scores but on customer dissatisfaction and delight:
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the customers who are so unhappy that theyre going to create problems in
the market, or the customers whose extremely high satisfaction leads to
loyalty. Transforming the objective from raising
7.2.3. Perceived Value of the Solut ion.
The product that people purchase extends beyond the specific device or
software thats shipped from the vendor: people really buy a whole product
that includes all the complementary hardware and software, system
integration, training, and perhaps most importantly, support needed to get
value out of the product. So, as part of the whole product, customer support
organizations need to add to the product's value as perceived by customers.
In the simplest sense, this is done by fixing problems quickly and accurately,making them go away. However, support can deliver value far beyond this
reactive function by providing feedback to the development organization to
make products better for customers, providing information to help customers
use products more effectively, and proactively telling customers how to
avoid problems. Therefore Mobilink perceives as a whole product (or
solution) rather than a connection, especially a solution in which availability
is a key value proposition, the more opportunity the support organization has
to increase the value of the solution to the customer. And, higher perceived
value translates to higher loyalty, revenue, and profit.
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7.3. Business Process Objectives
7.3.1. More Effect ive Incident Resolut ion .Mobilinks handling incidents is the
customer care business process of the support organization, and support
executives have devoted significant attention to optimizing the routing,
management, and resolution of issues through hiring practices, training,
process improvements, and technology investments. However, the key
opportunity for improving incident handling is by supporting problem
resolution itself
7.4. Organizational Capability Objectives
7.4.1. Better Knowledge Base.
The knowledge managed and structured in Mobilink for their customer
support is their key intellectual property asset. There are many measures of
the quality of the knowledge base, but the core objective is to capture as
much of the tacit knowledge held in the heads of support staff, product
specialists, and customers as possible to prevent problems for customers
and expensive re-work for staff
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7.4.2. More Effect ive Know ledge Transfer .
When we asked one support executive what his goal was, he answered, no
reply should be on an island. He then articulated a powerful vision of a
support center in which each employee was as effective as the best andwas supported by all the knowledge, explicit and tacit, within the
organization. We agree with him that this knowledge (which may or may not
be in a knowledge base) is the basis of an organizations ability to deliver
support, and that the more that it is transferred to each support engineer,
whether proactively or just-in-time, the more effective the organization will
be in meeting its other objectives.
7.4.3. Motivated and Trained Staff.
Mobilinks ability to deliver is completely dependent on having staff with the
right attitude and expertise. Economic climate has lowered voluntary
employee turnover, which has somewhat reduced management interest in
training as traditionally defined. Yet, as product lines evolve and grow more
complex, new products are produced or acquired and old ones are end-of-
life, training and knowledge transfer continues to be important. And,
employees still need motivation to perform at their best.
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Of the balanced scorecard elements weve just gone through, Mobilink
customer care capability objectives are the ones that support organizations
most directly control. So, a plan for successfully applying technology to
improve the balanced scorecard must focus on these objectives, andespecially on the business processes of problem resolution.
Obviously, problem resolution in high-tech support is a creative cognitive
process for customer support and cant be completely automated like a
robotic assembly line. Thats why the customer care problem resolution
process is using technology later than more mechanistic processes such as
entitlement, routing, and case management. Still, given that its not possible
to automate problem resolution, is it possible to augment human intelligence
by applying automation effectively.
7.5. Improving Business Processes:
7.5.1. Making Incident Resolution More Effective
There are many technologies that can be effectively applied to customercare problem resolution. But typically, these capabilities are either not all on
the analysts desktop, or are provided in soloed point tools, making the
analyst figure out if and when to launch yet another tool.
And in most cases, the knowledge environment isnt seamlessly integrated
in with the case management environmentthe right tab doesnt know what
the left tab is doing.
These barriers can be more significant than we imagine, especially when
analysts often have 5 to 12 separate tools running on their desktop.
7.5.2. Access to al l relevant content.
While traditional knowledge bases are limited to structured solutions, the
reality is that support professionals need access to a far broader range of
information, including content from support, engineering, professional
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services, marketing, customers, and partners. These content sources have
different owners, are managed in different repositories, and typically cant be
accessed through a single portal.
To make incident resolution as effective as possible, all of the relevantinformation needs to be brought together for the support analyst, regardless
of where it resides. The access must be precise to avoid overwhelming the
user. Precise integrated access to all information empowers the support
analyst to deliver the right answers faster.
7.5.3. Proactive Content Delivery.
In Mobilink Customers are best served by not having a problem in the first
place which happens if the support site proactively notifies them of contentthats relevant to their products, configuration, activities, and interests so
they can be guided around known issues. Not only can this find once / fix
many approach help customers avoid known issues, it can help them get
more value from their products by empowering them with information
7.5.4. Guidance.
In Mobilink Unlike support professionals, customers dont spend much time
at all thinking about products, reading support content, or diagnosing issues.
They may have a fuzzy or flawed view of how products work, and little
understanding of how symptoms relate to root causes.
they dont know what theyre looking for, and they dont know what they
dont know.
This means that an effective system must step them through the process of
saying what it is theyre looking for, guiding with suggested terms, concepts,
or directions to investigate
7.5.5. Broad con tent needs.
Just like support professionals, customers need precise one-click access to
any relevant content, not just support solutions. For example, their how to
question might be best answered by a marketing white paper, product
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documentation, or an expert forum posting. Improving Products More
Effectively Although support organizations focus on helping users with
problems, it would be much better if the problems never happened in the
first place if products were more reliable, easier to use, and faster todiagnose and fix when a problem arises. Mobilink customer care has teams
of product specialists whose responsibilities include providing structured
product feedback to product management and development organizations.
Yet, most support executives are frustrated by the quality of this feedback.
Support statistics are too general to be useful for product teams, who need
to understand the detailed root causes of service issues. Not only is data
collected in the support center overly general, its often flat wrong. In
Mobilink theyve worked with candidly estimates that only about 30% of
incidents are accurately classified by tier one analysts. Outside of the
support center, the situation is often worse. Its hard to gain insights from a
click stream or a website query log there are just too many incidents and
no way to analyze what they all mean. And, if that werent enough, insights
from the support centerarent generally integrated with insights from the
website in a consistent analytical environment.
7.5.6. Root-cause analyt ics.
In customer care a problem resolution application needs to understand,
classify, aggregate, and report on all interactions through every channel. By
automating the process, human error can be eliminated and website traffic
can be exploited. By aggregating content across channels, a unified view of
customer issues can emerge.
Also, the analytics need to correlate symptoms, products, environment, user
actions, and all relevant factors together for a true root-cause view of the
situation. This provides automated assistance to the kind of labor-intensive
deep-dive analysis product specialists often have to undertake.
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Knowledge transfer is happening in your support center. Unfortunately, most
of the time, its happening in an unmanaged way. Its time to replace ad-hoc
transient interactions with structured, reusable collaboration.
7.5.7. Expert Locat ion and Col laborat ion.
In Mobilink Customer care department the Collaboration needs to be
enabled by an environment that lets people find the right experts, pull them
quickly into the conversation, and capture the information they provide.
Otherwise, disruptive instant messages, phone calls, and cubicle drop-ins
will pester experts with the same questions again and again.
7.6. Better Motivated and Trained Staff7.6.1. Avo iding frustrat ion.There is no magic bullet that technology can provide to create staff
members who are excited to come to work in the morning and who have the
skills they need to do their jobs. But siloed, awkward tools that get in the
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way of solving customer problems are a source of frustration that companies
following this action plan will avoid.
7.6.2. Target ing training
In Mobilink Customer care Training is expensive and takes valuable
resources off the line. Yet, when applied as needed, it can have an
extremely high return on investment. So in customer care the problem
resolution application is able to help support center managers identify areas
in which specific analysts or teams are benefited from targeted training.
Checklist for Improving Organizational Capability
Objective Technology Requirements Benefits
More Effective
Knowledge Transfer
Expert location Structured
collaboration
Leverage what experts
know Reuse collaboration
sessions On-the-job
training
Better Knowledge
Base
Easier capture Flexible
workflow
More current,
comprehensive knowledge
Less staff time invested in
creating, structuring,
reviewing solutions
Better Motivated and
Trained Staff
An integrated, effective
application Analytics to
target training
Lower technology
frustration More return on
training investment
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7.7. Netting It Out:7.7.1. The Technology Must-Haves
As you can see, there are many technology capabilities that can improve
your performance against customer support balanced scorecard objectives.
Stepping back a bit, though, some clear themes emerge.
No matter what specific objectives youre going to optimize, a technology
solution which is applied all across Mobilink customer care department that
forms the basis of a problem resolution initiative are comprehensive, with
integrated functionality; must adapt to the context of each customers
situation; and have seamlessly integrate both structured support solutionsand other enterprise (or partner) content.
Weve spoken to many of these early adopters, and without exception they
complain about the challenges of integrating separate technology together in
their environment. These challenges range from the cost of buying separate
applications, the IT resources to integrate them, inconsistent customer
experiences, content silos.
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7.8. The balanced Score card
Balanced Score Card
Prespectives Objectives Measures Targets Initiatives
FY 10 FY 11
FINANCIAL
Revenue from
new customers
and products
20% 25%
Excellence in
customer
services
Create New
sources of
revenue
Share of wallet 100M 175 M
Increase revenue
per customer
Revenue Mix vs.
Target10% 15%
increase
Customer
Retention
Increase
Customer
Profitability
Profits Per
Customers25% 30%
Guide / Educate
Customers
Improve Sales
ProductivityCost Of Sales
Better
Forecasting
techniques
CUSTOMER
Increase
Customer
Satisfaction
Percentage of
Highly Satisfied
Customers
Increase Service
Increase
Customer Loyalty
Customer
Retention5% 7%
Proper Guidance
to Customer
Create Raving
Fans
Percentage of
Business from
CustomerReferrals
Special
promotions
Contribution by
Segment
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Understand
Segments
Percentage of
Unprofitable
Customers
42% 31% Market Aware
ScreenUnprofitable
Customers
Number OfStrategic Accounts
10% 25% Decrease in TimeWastage
Target High
Value CustomersBrand Awareness
Increase follow
ups
Manage the
Brand
Innovative
Packages
CommunicateValue
Proposition
Number of Leads /
Conversions3 4
EnhanceCommunication
Skills
Acquire New
Customers
Campaign
Response Rate1M 1.75M
Increase
prospecting
Customize Mass
Marketing
Service Quality
Rating
Apply Marketing
Tools
Develop Dealer
Networks
Revenue
Generated from
Dealers
8000
Dealers
20000
DealerSpecial Discounts
INTERNAL
PROCESS
Provide Premium
Customer Service
Number of
Premium
Customer
up by
5%
up by
10%
Customer Is
Always First
Provide Service
Excellence
Percentage of
Revenue from
sole source
Reduce
Complexity in
functions
Create Lifetime
Customers
Service Levels ( by
Customer
Revenue )
Reduce QoS
Issues
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Customer Lifetime
value
Cross Selling
Number Of
Products per
package
Increase ProductAwareness
Solution SellingHours With
Customers
Focus Profitable
Product
Customer
EducationService
Increase
Advertisements
LEARNING AND
GROWTH
Develop Strategic
compitencies
Number ofCustomer hits to
Management
Information
System
Use Standard
Technical Tools
Attract and
Retain Top TalentCustomer Survey
Professional
Trainings
Develop Strategic
CRM portfolio
Analysis through
E6 Software Upgradation
Create
Consumer-
focused culture
Call Monitoring
Enhance
Communication
skills
Create Personal
Goal Alignment
Daily Progress
ReportsGoal Setting
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8. PEST Analysis
EST analysis is an analysis of the external macro-environment that affects all firms.
P.E.S.T. is an acronym for the Political, Economic, Social, and Technological factors of
the external macro-environment. Such external factors usually are beyond the firm's
control and sometimes present themselves as threats. For this reason, some say that
"pest" is an appropriate term for these factors. However, changes in the external
environment also create new opportunities and the letters sometimes are rearranged to
construct the more optimistic term of STEP analysis.
8.1. Political FactorsThe political instability of the country is the main reason affecting the core
subjects. The govt. regulation on mobile operators increased Taxation (GST) and
high inflation affecting the internal environment of the company. No friendly
investor environment, War of terror, security concerns and PTA regulation are
also contributing towards high impact.
8.2. Economic Factors
Continuous degradation in countrys economic health lessening the
purchase/consuming power of the customer. Companys focus on cost cutting
and downsizing is the major factor of increase in unemployment. Customer in
todays world is more demanding for QoS for less expense with better quality.
The poor economic sector also influencing the entire market causing competitors
to work together for fighting out this chronic situation for this purpose concept ofsharing of infrastructure and recourses is largely employed.
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8.3. Socio-Cultural Factors
As Pakistan is an Islamic country and people are very strict and sensitive in case
of religion, anything against the philosophy of Islam on either print or electronic
media are treated as against religious dignity. Occasional activities both cultural
and religious have influential effects. Similarly Pakistani society has cultural mix
demography with different mind sets and demands. Customer expectations are
high, customer demand more for their problem solution rather new products.
Brand consciousness is one of the factors associated with demography
8.4. Technological FactorsTechnology is changing every day, Companies have technology with which they
can compete in the Pakistan and now companies are investing in their
infrastructure to not only expand but also to upgrade their existing structure like
from 2G networks to 3G technologies for better quality and higher capacity to
overcome future demands. With new infrastructure, investment also put on
human resources for up gradation of their competencies through certification and
trainings. Technologies also encourage competitors to work together for this
integration of major companies has already been done (Nokia and Siemens) and
some are in progress.
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9. CONCLUSION
Mobilink is the market leader of telecom industry in Pakistan providing the best
customer services called Customer cares, which is one of their core value Total
Customer Satisfaction. With the detailed analysis using different management tools, it
is observed that Customer care (Contact center and customer center) has number of
strengths which could be utilized to avail the opportunities and overcome its
weaknesses. However, as threats to an organization are always external therefore they
cannot be eradicated however they could be handled efficiently to minimize the
unforeseen and forecasting problems.
Mobilink facing a high level of competition from competitors specially from Telenor and
Ufone in terms of better QoS, resolution of problem form CS, network coverage and
low cost. The telecom customers have more choices available to avail and have
segmented power of switching. Customer consider Mobilink as expensive network to be
used as socio economic condition getting worst day by day it will effect even more after
passage of time.
The internal environment of the services center is open, friendly and professional.
People at their best can be found in offices that are open and accessible to internal
customers. Management follows leadership style and lead through initiative, motivation
and willingness to serve. Internal environment is overall is acceptable.
Since the countrys economic growth is weak, Mobilink striving to combat these external
factors and has be quite successful. Technology is changing every day and customer is
aware of this change and demand solution for neither their problem nor the products,
hence technological change is another factor creating more opportunities for the
company.
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10. Recommendations
Followings are some recommendations which are appreciated by the management of
the Customer Care center at EDEN Center, Jail Rd Lahore.
Quality of Technical network equipment should be improved to improve the
coverage for the customers.
QoS should also be improved by giving professional trainings to CSRs on
communication skills which improve their ethical behavior.
Should maintain a proper list for its prepaid customers to keep the detailed
record for PTA.
More licenses should be issued for new franchisees as the customers are
increasing very rapidly day by day.
Hiring of more skilled and enthusiastic CSRs to decrease the waiting time at call
centers for the ease of beloved customers.
Web-based access to call history should be introduced for facilitating the prepaid
customers.
Advanced Technology (3G) should be employed.
More Innovative and Customer-Focused promotions should be offered to the
customers.
Customer Care Team should be pro-active in identifying problem before their
occurrence.
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11. REFERNCES
Web References:
www.mobilinkgms.com
www.pta.gov.pk
My Mobilink (Intranet Website of Mobilink)
Personal References:
Mr. Muhammad Ehtisham (Team Lead Customer Care, WTC, Mobilink)
Mr. Salman Qureshi (Technical Department, WTC, Mobilink)
Mr. Jawad Toor (Technical Department, FRF, Mobilink)
Mr. Awan Zia Raja (Contact Center Manager, WTC, Mobilink)
Mr. Yasir Naqvi (Floor Manager, WTC, Mobilink)
http://www.mobilinkgms.com/http://www.mobilinkgms.com/http://www.pta.gov.pk/http://www.pta.gov.pk/http://www.pta.gov.pk/http://www.mobilinkgms.com/