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    A decision modeling study with fuzzy cognitive mapping method on customers' brand preferences criteria in telecommunications industry
    (Graduate School, 2022-06-13) İskender, Fatih ; Akdağ Camgöz, Hatice ; 507191015 ; Management Engineering
    Today, businesses need to consider many factors in order to survive in a competitive environment and to stand out from the competition. While some of these are factors such as cost advantage, way of doing business, organizational structure and culture, adaptation to the environment, etc., one of the most important points is the customer. Many customer-related factors are critical to the survival of businesses. Areas such as customer acquisition, promotion, satisfaction, meeting their needs and new sales opportunities are some of the issues that companies focus on. The perspectives and strategies that businesses develop towards customers can change in terms of their sectors. For example, the customer perspective of a business in the FMCG sector and the perspective of a business in the banking industry towards the customer will differ in many respects. On the other hand, the telecom sector stands out as a sector with its own dynamics in terms of both being very dynamic and competitive and progressing with a system based on subscription in general. The needs and expectations of consumers are changing and their demands from companies differ day by day. Both increasing population and technological developments affect the behavior patterns of consumers. This pushes companies to better analyze customer expectations, to be intertwined with customers, and to offer them the most appropriate products and services. The aim of this study is to determine which areas the companies operating in the telecommunications sector should focus on according to customer expectations and criteria for brand preference by using the Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) method. In addition to the strategies of the enterprises, the expectations of each customer from the enterprises may differ, and it may be necessary to find special solutions for each customer group. From this point of view, in addition to customer acquisition/retention strategies, it has become inevitable for businesses to keep the pulse of the customer very well, analyze their expectations very well and offer solutions. Expectations of consumers from companies can be affected by demographic reasons such as age, gender, education level, as well as by psychological or socio-cultural reasons. As a result of this, each consumer buys products or services by evaluating companies with their specific needs and expectations. In addition, each consumer pays attention to features of the product or service they need while purchasing. For example, a customer who wants to buy a television decides on the television she/he will buy by evaluating many points such as screen size, brightness, warranty period, price, etc. This situation is the same for the telecom industry. At this point, businesses operating in the telecom industry are making decisions about the future of the brand and trying to offer solutions suitable for customer needs by doing research on customer preferences. Data is collected from many sources by methods such as measuring general customer feelings and expectations with the support of research companies, identifying needs by collecting feedback from dealer channels, identifying experienced or potential problems through analyzes made from conversations in call centers. Customer experience is tried to be improved by doing action plans according to these results. Generating meaningful and useful results from such a large pool of information and turning it into action is one of the biggest problems encountered for businesses. Although it makes it easier for businesses to manage this process in a similar way with years of experience and knowledge and to make inferences based on the results of previous actions, efficient and focused methods are always sought for businesses to make more accurate decisions and find solutions in a more cost-effective way. The FCM method is one of the most effective methods in terms of both creating a meaningful relationship map according to the results of the researches and helping businesses to make decisions more cost-effectively. For this reason, it was decided to use FCM method to solve the problem in this study. From this point of view, it has been researched which areas the customers in the telecommunications sector care and which dynamics these areas affect in the business in this study. As a result of this research, it is aimed to determine which areas the enterprises operating in the telecommunications sector should focus on and to facilitate their decision making by using FCM modeling. Firstly, a detailed literature review was made the issues that customers pay the most attention to the choice of telecom operator were determined as follows. 1.Price 2.Coverage Area 3.Network quality / Speed 4.Service quality 5.Variety of services 6.Use/suggestion by family and friends 7.Image / Emotional bond 8.Advertising / Communication 9.Trust The criteria determined in the literature studies were evaluated by experts who are experienced and have strong knowledge in the sector in order to map the relationship between them and analyze with the FCM method. Iteration steps of the FCM method were applied with the help of the relationship map and weighted matrix obtained by the questionnaire applied to these experts. FCMappers application was used in the application of the FCM method in terms of providing both time and an easy excel format. After the weighted matrix values are entered into the FCMappers application, the results are listed. As a result of the iteration steps, the most critical criteria for the system were found as follows, respectively. 1.Image / Emotional bond 2.Trust 3.Use/suggestion by family and friends 4.Advertising / Communication 5.Variety of services 6.Service quality 7.Coverage Area 8.Network quality / Speed 9.Price Considering the result, the criteria of 'Image / Emotional bond', 'Trust' and 'Use/suggestion by family and friends' came to the fore as the most important criteria. In the light of these results, the following recommendations are presented for companies operating in the telecom sector. •Companies should establish an emotional bond with their customers and should not be a brand that only serves them. •Firms should pay attention to their image in front of their customers and present an image that is compatible with the demographic, psychological and sociological structure of the society. •Companies should give confidence to their customers, keep their promises and fulfill their commitments. They should avoid actions that may surprise customers. •Companies should pay close attention to their customers' relationships with family and friends. They should develop special actions for people's relatives according to their own strategies. •Companies should carry out their communication activities in line with their own strategies in order to create a brand image and establish a bond with customers and to make their voices heard. •Companies should also care about infrastructure developments in order to respond to the final requests of customers. Although it is very important to touch, connect and stay in touch with customers, companies should also focus on infrastructure investments as it affects the product used by customers and therefore many factors that the customer cares about.