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Prediction of Dormant Customer in the Card Industry

카드산업에서 휴면 고객 예측

  • 이동규 (한양대학교 비즈니스인포매틱스학과) ;
  • 신민수 (한양대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2023.02.09
  • Accepted : 2023.04.20
  • Published : 2023.06.30
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Abstract

In a customer-based industry, customer retention is the competitiveness of a company, and improving customer retention improves the competitiveness of the company. Therefore, accurate prediction and management of potential dormant customers is paramount to increasing the competitiveness of the enterprise. In particular, there are numerous competitors in the domestic card industry, and the government is introducing an automatic closing system for dormant card management. As a result of these social changes, the card industry must focus on better predicting and managing potential dormant cards, and better predicting dormant customers is emerging as an important challenge. In this study, the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) methodology was used to predict potential dormant customers in the card industry, and in particular, Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) was used to efficiently learn data for a long time. In addition, to redefine the variables needed to predict dormant customers in the card industry, Unified Theory of Technology (UTAUT), an integrated technology acceptance theory, was applied to redefine and group the variables used in the model. As a result, stable model accuracy and F-1 score were obtained, and Hit-Ratio proved that models using LSTM can produce stable results compared to other algorithms. It was also found that there was no moderating effect of demographic information that could occur in UTAUT, which was pointed out in previous studies. Therefore, among variable selection models using UTAUT, dormant customer prediction models using LSTM are proven to have non-biased stable results. This study revealed that there may be academic contributions to the prediction of dormant customers using LSTM algorithms that can learn well from previously untried time series data. In addition, it is a good example to show that it is possible to respond to customers who are preemptively dormant in terms of customer management because it is predicted at a time difference with the actual dormant capture, and it is expected to contribute greatly to the industry.

고객 기반의 산업에서 고객 Retention은 기업의 경쟁력이라 할 수 있으며, 고객 Retention을 높이는 것은 기업의 경쟁력을 높이는 것이라 할 수 있다. 따라서, 미래 휴면 고객을 잘 예측하여 관리하는 것은 기업의 경쟁력을 높이는데 무엇보다 중요하다. 왜냐하면, 신규 고객을 유치하는데 필요한 비용이 기존 고객을 Lock-in 시키는데 드는 비용 보다 많은 것으로 알려져 있기 때문이다. 특히, 수 많은 카드사가 존재하는 국내 카드 산업의 휴면 카드를 관리하고자 정부에서 휴면 카드 자동 해지 제도를 도입하고 있으며, 카드 산업에서 휴면 고객을 관리하는 것이 무엇보다 중요한 과제로 떠오르고 있다. 본 연구에서는 카드 산업에서 휴면 고객을 예측하기 위해 Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)방법론을 사용하였으며, RNN방법론 중에서 긴 시간을 효율적으로 학습할 수 있는 Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM)을 활용하였다. 또한, 통합기술수용이론 (UTAUT)을 입각하여 카드 산업에서 휴면 고객을 예측하는데 필요한 변수를 재정의하였다. 그 결과 안정된 모형의 정확도와 F-1 score를 얻을 수 있었으며, Hit-Ratio를 통하여 모형의 안정된 결과를 입증하였다. 기존 연구에서 지적된 통합기술수용이론 (UTAUT)에서 발생 될 수 있는 인구통계학적 정보의 조절 효과도 발생 되지 않은 것을 보였으며, 이로 인해 통합기술수용이론(UTAUT)를 이용한 변수 선정 모형에서 LSTM을 이용한 휴면 고객 예측 모형은 편향되지 않고 안정된 결과를 가져다 줄 수 있다는 것을 입증하였다.

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