On the 20th of October 2021, inQuba and Matchboard hosted a live executive lunch event in Australia called From Journey Mapping to Journey Management: the Evolution of CX in Telco & Utilities
Our speakers were Dr. Robert Dew (Author, ‘Lean CX’) and Mike Renzon (CEO, inQuba).
Recording: https://youtu.be/vVC4mmsfNxQ
The things that today’s customers value have changed, and traditional methods no longer deliver this value. Discover how leading telco & utilities businesses are decoding customer intent, optimising journeys and boosting revenue.
The presentations from these two CX industry thought leaders covered:
• Why customer behaviour is difficult to understand or anticipate
• How to deeply understand the behaviour & intent of today’s customer
• How to optimise journeys for high value customers (use cases & success stories)
• How businesses are rethinking value delivery & CX to improve acquisition
4. Where are they going?
?
Where & why are they dropping off?
?
How are they feeling?
?
What do they value?
?
Did they get there?
?
Who are they, & what’s important to them?
?
Were our strategies effective?
?
What kind of help do they need?
?
5. Where are they going?
?
Where & why are they dropping off?
?
How are they feeling?
?
What do they value?
?
Did they get there?
?
Who are they, & what’s important to them?
?
Were our strategies effective?
?
What kind of help do they need?
?
Where are they going?
? Did they get there?
?
6. 1. Discover real journeys
Uncover real paths, obstacles
and goals
!
!
7. Where are they going?
?
Where & why are they dropping off?
?
How are they feeling?
?
What do they value?
?
Did they get there?
?
Who are they, & what’s important to them?
?
Were our strategies effective?
?
What kind of help do they need?
?
How are they feeling?
?
What do they value?
?
9. Where are they going?
?
Where & why are they dropping off?
?
How are they feeling?
?
What do they value?
?
Did they get there?
?
Who are they, & what’s important to them?
?
Were our strategies effective?
?
What kind of help do they need?
?
Where & why are they dropping off?
? Who are they, & what’s important to them?
?
11. 3. Goal & drop-off analysis
Better understand your clients while
they’re trying to achieve their goals
!
!
Drop-off
channel
Drop-off
duration
12. !
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3. Goal & drop-off analysis
Better understand your clients while
they’re trying to achieve their goals
Drop-off
reason
Drop-off
segment
60%
27%
13%
45%
39%
16%
13. Where are they going?
?
Where & why are they dropping off?
?
How are they feeling?
?
What do they value?
?
Did they get there?
?
Who are they, & what’s important to them?
?
Were our strategies effective?
?
What kind of help do they need?
? What kind of help do they need?
?
15. Where are they going?
?
Where & why are they dropping off?
?
How are they feeling?
?
What do they value?
?
Did they get there?
?
Who are they, & what’s important to them?
?
Were our strategies effective?
?
What kind of help do they need?
? Were our strategies effective?
?
16. 5. Review & optimise
Review the impact of strategies &
fine-tune further
71% 86%
30% 26% 41%
65%
Conversion
test
Conversion
control
18. Customers who
prefer virtual
assistance to a
meeting
35%
27%
Intent to switch
services providers
13%
What’s
changed
during
Covid-19?
Creating brand-infused customer journeys
This client engaged inQuba for assistance in the creation of
brand-infused customer journeys through the guiding of customer
emotion.
USE CASE : BRAND-INFUSED JOURNEYS
CHALLENGES. Customer acquisition &
retention, highlighted by the following:
• Household economic pressures
• Digital alternatives
• Customer empowerment
• Low risk of switching
• Reduced interpersonal contact
19. SOLUTION. The business needed to guide emotion and
build loyalty through brand-infused customer journeys.
This included six different areas:
• Story. The journey must live up to the brand
narrative, anchored in benefits that differentiate
• Emotion. Craft the ideal emotional arc, evoking the
most important target emotions
• Memory. Create positive memories by balancing
moments of varying importance
• Tone. The journey must infuse the brand personality
into everything, digital or human
• Technology. The journey must weave in new
channels, data and tech to adapt to expectations
• Fluidity. The journey must connect the dots in
customers’ lives and adapt to needs to build long-
term relationships
Creating brand-infused customer journeys
USE CASE : BRAND-INFUSED JOURNEYS
20. MAPPING THE CUSTOMER JOURNEY
Saving
Sprint 2: months 2-12
Equip beyond
Sprint 3: yrs 2+
Relationship
Sprint 4: yrs 4+
Onboarding
Sprint 1: weeks 1-6
Key engagements:
Designed based upon insights from
previous sprint
Key engagements:
Designed based upon insights from
previous sprint/s
Key engagements:
Designed based upon insights from
previous sprint/s
Key engagements:
• Onboarding engagement
• Welcome newsletter
• Retirement education
• Pre-deduction education
• Onboarding feedback
• Product education
Member journey
engagement toolbox
• Assured
• Acknowledged
• Equipped beyond product
• Acknowledged
• We’ve built a lasting relationship
• Acknowledged
• Knowledgeable
• Understand their product
• Acknowledged
How do we want
members to feel?
Journey design
Who’s lapsing? Which segments?
Feedback? Behaviour? Economic loss?
Journey design
When lapsing? Previous data? New data
to collect? Why lapsing? Emotional?
Journey design
Who will lapse? How do we solve it?
Intervention ROI? Further optimise?
Journey design
Definitions of lapses and improvements
Member
journey design
To be scoped in detail:
Understand products, understand
importance of savings, read welcome
letter, understand statement, understand
product, access portal
What do we
want members
to do?
• Encouraging regular portal access
• Maintaining knowledge and understanding
• Showing increased acknowledgement (through
personalisation)
• Equipping members to grow their retirement through additional
products
• Assist members in overcoming obstacles
• Grow and maintain and ongoing relationship
21. Onboarding Journey: What have we learnt?
Test Group
Control Group
Based on Portal registration rates, the Test
Group performed 31% better than the
Control Group
22. Onboarding Journey: What have we learnt?
Test Group
Control Group
46% of members who responded to a
nudge went on to register
23. Onboarding Journey: What have we learnt?
Test Group
Control Group
The inQuba platform allows us to survey
members to understand behaviour
Portal Awareness is a key reason members aren’t registering.
24. Onboarding Journey: What have we learnt?
Test Group
Control Group
Member behaviour demonstrates minimal friction
when progressing from Portal Registration to Portal
Login
(Once registered, login to the portal flows seamlessly)
Where we effectively drive portal registration, there is a high
likelihood that portal access will follow
25. Agility in Design & Execution is Key
• Demonstrates:
– The visibility of the Journey Analytics approach
– The effectiveness of the Journey Orchestration approach
– The speed with which these gains were made (actual
changes made in 1 working day)
• Changes were made to engagements to improve
response rates:
– More compelling wording and a tone of urgency
– Adding employer details in the SMS
– Including reminders to members
– Removing PDFs that took members out of the engagement
• These changes were done “on-the-fly” in the
inQuba platform
– Changes made in 1 working day (Plus ½ day testing)
84%
94%
Before After
6% 16%
Engagement Rate has improved from 6% to 16%
following the recent changes to engagements – further
optimizations to target 20%-25%
Engagement rate before and after changes
26. • Continue optimising customer journey orchestration
– It Works!
– Provides clear insights as to drop-offs
– Demonstrates that tweaks have high-impact in conversion
– Extract further insights as the journey story unfolds…
– Goal-specific landing pages for members on the portal
– Broker support for members that haven’t considered their retirement
goals
– Priming customers for the journey engagements in the original welcome
message
– More specific messages to help members achieve their retirement goals
beyond the onboarding journey
– Journey Acceleration: apply to other journeys
Outcomes
27. Leading telecommunications provider, operating in more than 38 countries, uses inQuba to
measure & improve experiences at each step of the servicing journey
Orchestrating the servicing journey
USE CASE : TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CHALLENGES
What is our CX programme telling us?
Call centre
communication needs
improvement!
My issues aren’t being
understood or resolved
quickly.
The communication between
Sales and Technical is poor, and
I’m being caught in the middle.
I don’t get a response
after logging a ticket.
Was it even received?
I’ve tried the self-help options but
they don’t work, and sometimes
make everything worse.
They take a long time to
resolve things, and I have
to call them a few times.
I wish they could keep me updated
until the issue is resolved. Otherwise I
don’t know what’s going on...
I’m not sure who
my technician is?
Sometimes they just send
me too many messages!
Which ones are important?
28. Manage my expectations
• Keep me updated on progress
• How long is this going to take?
• How can I ‘raise my hand’?
• How do I escalate if I need to?
Design Thinking: the Service Experience
1
Proactively engage with me
• Update me on problems as they happen
• Give me tools to solve my own problems
• Resolve issues first time
Proactively fix
my problems
as they occur
Inform me
when
problems
occur
Give me
excellent tools
to solve my
own problems
Answer my
calls / chat /
email
immediately
Resolve my
problem the
first time and
on first
contact
Manage my
expectations
Understand
me and
collaborate
with me
Keep me
informed
Let me speak
directly to
your people
Let me ‘raise
my hand’
Escalate
proactively
2
29. Resolution & feedback
Hi Lynn
We are aware that your ticket has been
closed, please let us know if your issue
has been resolved?
Yes No
Thank you,
Telco Team
Today, 15:30
Thank you for giving us your
feedback Lynn. Please tell us why
you felt that way?
Today, 15:30
Free Text
Thank you for your feedback, Lynn.
How satisfied were you with the way
we resolved your issue?
1. Very Dissatisfied
2. Dissatisfied
3. Neutral
4. Satisfied
5. Very Satisfied
Rate 1 to 5
Today, 15:30
If “Yes”
Thank you for the feedback, Lynn!
An agent will contact you soon to
assist further.
Today, 15:30
Lynn, we're sorry your ticket hasn't
been adequately resolved. Please
tell us why you feel your ticket isn't
resolved:
Today, 15:30
Free Text
If “No”
Analytics
Acknowledge receipt
Confirm Issue
Customer-specific treatment
Let customer “raise hand”
Update on ticket
status change
Engage before SLA breach
Let customer “raise hand”
Inform of ticket escalation
Engage before SLA breach
Let customer “raise hand”
Customer confirmation of
resolution
Gather feedback
Engagement overview
1 2
3
4
Engagement Overview and Example
• Measure issue resolution
• Give the customer the
opportunity to provide feedback
• Measure customer satisfaction
• Identify key strengths and
challenges
Key objectives
30. Outcome
Feedback and deep analytics
Visibility
Customer
satisfaction
Customer
experience
First-contact
resolution
Bad
No
of
Comments
Few
Good
Positivity of Topic
Many
Main categories of themes identified from customer comments
Experiential
Economic
Brand
Functional
Customer comments based on selections from the above figures
Trendlines for the specific themes selected
Speed
Resolution
Percentage of Positive Comments Percentage of Negative Comments
Jan Feb Mar Apr
Comment Theme Categories Specific Theme
Positivity of
Topic
Process takes
too long
Experience Speed Bad
I need tools to solve my issues Experience Self-help Bad
My problem was not resolved Experience Resolution Bad
The agent could not answer my
questions
Experience Product
knowledge
Bad
Resolution
Self help
Product knowledge
Specific themes identified from customer comments
Bad
No
of
Comments
Few
Good
Many
Usability
Reliability
Speed
34. If we are going to really understand our
customers, we need to be able to
dynamically model, anticipate &
influence their behaviour.
In conclusion
Editor's Notes
Flock transforms into Sankey silhouette.
Real journeys are dynamic, and change
Paths shown to change, paths are dynamic
Sankey transformation into relatable visualisation.
RD: ORIENTATE PEOPLE ON THE SANKEY BRIEFLY. HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS SCARY.
All the questions we want to answer in the presentation. We return here for each step.
Step 1 questions
We discover the real journeys, including obstacles and goals (rather than the conceptual journeys we map out)
RD: CASE STUDY FOLLOWS, ABOUT FINDING AN OBSTACLE AND ADDRESSING IT
Step 2 questions
RD: INJECT ANALOGY STORY – LOOKING FOR A CAR? – IT’S NOT JUST ONE THING THAT’S IMPORTANT, BUT MULTIPLE
Step 3 questions
Firstly, optimal vs. sub-optimal paths.
Secondly, a high level view of success across the journey
RD: INJECT THIS NARRATIVE: WE’RE TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE INTO SHORT CUTS
Thirdly, drop-off channel analysis.
Fourthly, drop-off duration analysis
RD: TO MAKE RELATABLE – “YOU CAN IMAGINE FOR YOUR BUSINESS THE CHANNELS AND DURATIONS THAT WOULD BE APPLICABLE…”
Fifthly, drop-off reason analysis.
Sixthly, drop-off segment analysis
RD: DRAW UPON THE CAR PURCHASE METAPHOR HERE AGAIN – REASONS FOR DECISION
RD: USE CASE SLIDE TO FOLLOW – USING CUSTOMER INSIGHT
Step 4 questions
Different types of nudges and interventions at different spots. Mention all types and strategies.
RD: “SOMETIMES DATA CAN SUGGEST COUNTER-INTUITIVE METHODS AND GET GREAT RESULTS. SOMETIMES THE VALUE BEING MISSED CAN BE COUNTER-INTUITIVE, WHICH IS WHY WE NEED TO WORK THE DATA…”
RD: USE CASE SLIDE TO FOLLOW – INTERVENTIONS THAT CHANGE BEHAVIOUR
Step 5 questions
Success review, test vs. control on conversion
RD: “THESE RESULTS WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE AMMO YOU NEED INTERNALLY FOR THE BUDGET YOU DESERVE..”
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MR thoughts: What’s the shape at a point in time, and is it changing? Customers operate within a market – customers and market change – remote, digital, customer mindset – birds are made up of cohorts – customers and the market influence each other.