28 Versus 30 Days Plans Of TELCOs

This post is a slightly edited version of my answer to the following Quora question: In coming up with plans with 28 days’ validity, I’m guessing TELCOs have been inspired by one of the 29 Psychological Tricks To Make You Buy More that leverage inherent biases exhibited by consumers. According to this Visual Capitalist article, … Read more

SAAS Vendor Minimizes Churn And Maximizes Revenue

Here’s our latest success story: SAAS Vendor Minimizes Churn And Maximizes Revenue New Onboarding Wizard Eliminates Cognitive Dissonance And Enhances Usage This SAAS vendor faced abnormal churn in the weeks following new customer acquisition and reached out to us for assistance. Our analysis nailed the vendor’s use of Excel as the root cause of the … Read more

Three Strike Rule To Eliminate Cybercrime

In his ET WEALTH column entitled If it seems too good to be true, it probably is, Dhirendra Kumar describes the following asymmetry between victims and perpetrators of cybercrime: Individual victims – even when they are well-off and educated – are poorly equipped to detect fraud. The fraudsters are invariably well-experienced at what they’re doing … Read more

Hair Splitting In Finance

Between Eight WYSINWYG Terms In Finance – Part 1 and Eight WYSINWYG Terms In Finance – Part 2, we covered eight terms in finance that should not be taken literally i.e. they’re WYSINWYG (“What You See Is Not What You Get” – to be pronounced “wisinwig”). To recap, they were: Nonprofit Company Winner Takes All … Read more

Customer Experience ≠ Customer’s Experience

Customer Experience (CX) is the customer’s takeaway of their experience with the supplier’s company, product, process and employees. Click here to see the detailed definition of CX from Gartner. Customer’s Experience (C’sX or CSX) is the experience itself. CSX is akin to Customer Journey. As illustrated in the following exhibit, Customer Journey is what a … Read more

Eight WYSINWYG Terms In Finance – Part 2

WYSINWYG (to be pronounced “wisinwig”) means “What You See Is Not What You Get”. We described four WYSINWYG terms in finance in Eight WYSINWYG Terms In Finance – Part 1: Nonprofit Company Winner Takes All Banking the Unbanked Too Big To Fail We will cover four more finance WYSINWYGs in this second part. #5. MARKET … Read more

Maximizing Before-After Arbitrage In B2B Technology GTM

Let’s see the pitch of a few B2B technology products: ERP prevents stock-outs by triggering stock transfers from one store to another, thereby driving greater revenues. WMS drives greater inventory turns, and thus reduces working capital costs. CEM increases visibility of gifts across the distribution channel, thereby delivering more bang for the trade promotion buck. … Read more

Eight WYSINWYG Terms In Finance – Part 1

There are many terms that don’t mean what they say. Some are misnomers e.g. Nonprofit Others sound broader than they are e.g Insider Trading Still others are obfuscatory e.g. KYC. I’ve coined the term WYSINWYG to represent such terms. As you might have guessed, WSINWYG (to be pronounced “wisinwig”) stands for “What You See Is … Read more