This Loras College Business Analytics Symposium breakout session presented by Cathy Carlson and Bruce Barchus of Vizability LLC described the journey on the way to exceptional customer experience. What does that have to do with analytics? Everything. Data-driven decisions are critical to optimizing the way your organization delights (or not) your customers. Challenging your organization to be great on an end-to-end basis is never ending. Welcome to the journey.
Participants received a guide for getting real world results, including a list of tools to help along the way.
Say it with me…WHAT ISN’T MEASURED CAN’T BE IMPROVED
It’s doesn’t get much simpler than that…
But remember, I said simple…NOT EASY!
More on that later
We have to learn to move from business analytics to customer analytics…customers need to be at the heart of everything you do.
I was always amazed at the times when we’d “test” a piece of creative only to do nothing with that knowledge on the next campaign.
KBO – The big drivers of organizational success
Ex: Grow revenue by 30%
KPI – Measures used to gauge or compare performance to meeting their overall KBO
Ex: Conversion on the web site
Revenue vs Cost Savings initiative
If your cart is performing at peak --- and to move the needle a little bit will cost more than the incremental increase why would you do it? ESPECIALLY if your customer doesn’t see/feel the improvement? VERSUS doing a self-service initiative that is actually causing pain for the customer? The organization needs to me able to see/understand the biggest opportunities.
Where are you putting your budget dollars?
Where are you putting your resources?
Where are you putting your technology?
EXAMPLE; Online bill payment project– I was VERY SURE that a step in the new online billing experience was bad enough to stop the rollout.
If anyone in today’s highly connected and highly social world doesn’t think the customer has all the power is just dead wrong.
Don’t lie – set expectations and SAY YOU’RE SORRY!
Train your people…the owner came and fixed the mistake of his worker—he was great but I pointed out that the employee was as much his brand as he was.
Receptionist lied about delivery which resulted in me taking off work and waiting for them…when all along she knew that the cabinet was sitting at their warehouse in Green Bay.
As I waited and waited for them to arrive at their scheduled time I called to find out where they were after each missed arrival time…eventually she just stopped answering the phone. At which point I called the owner directly. He was the one who eventually told me the cabinets were actually in GB.
89% of consumers began doing business with/purchasing from a competitor following a poor customer experience.*
And in the worse case, your stock price falls—I’m sure everyone remember United Breaks Guitars
Customer Emotional Bank Accounts need to be managed proactively…like any other relationship, the ideal is that you have far more deposits than withdrawals
Let’s add up the emotional bank account deposits and withdrawals
Luckily I’ve flown with Delta enough to know that the bad day was just that and not a regular occurrence.
But...
And I still went on on social media to vent.
Which resulted in friends pointing out competitors that they were happy with…
WOW
This is both good and bad news…imagine how little it would truly take
Thought something had to be “fixed” with shopping cart!
But we knew our analytics well enough and to know that we hadn’t done anything to change the existing experience
no new pricing
no new charges
Equine site
Aging Parents.com
Why is the key and understanding what the real KBO / KPI of the initiative.
I understand I take my life into my own hands by saying this in this room. But hey, go big or go home right?
We all know that numbers can tell almost any story we want. That’s why normally multiple metrics are important to understand the real picture.
Now in this case the numbers didn’t actually LIE…BUT one number didn’t tell the whole story.
Why is the key and understanding what the real KBO / KPI of the initiative.
That being said, I did not do a good job preparing the CMO for the change that was coming.
While he knew we were optimizing the shopping cart experience and had seen the new functionality—it didn’t translate into reduced page views. That’s on me.
PREPARE your stakeholders for the anticipated change in results. In this case a decline in page views was AWESOME!
it’s important to understand if that KPI should be going up or down based on the context of the situation. An increase in page views to your
Why is the key and understanding what the real KBO / KPI of the initiative.
The hidden cost of bad data may be even greater than that 12% lost revenue. Bad data also affects customer service and your overall reputation.
It’s amazing how simple this is
There aren’t many individuals who will argue with cold hard facts.
This is why I always ask our clients, “DO YOU KNOW? Or DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW?”
Contrary to what I just said, numbers don’t like.
That is assuming you’ve
agreed on what success is
and identified the appropriate KPIs
uncovered the WHY,
your data is clean
Numbers take the emotion out of the equation.
Now to be clear, email complaints wasn’t OUR only metric to gauge the success of the campaign. We also looked at unsubscribes and actual conversion numbers…and then we threw the party. :D
[ ] We’ll share some of our favorites.
[ ] Put your CX analytics to work! Put your operational analytics to work.
[ ] Develop a simple example for KBO and KPIs … use publishing clients … KBO (reach new markets / fill product lifecycle) … KPI (research results, personals defined, products defined, impact chart)
[ ] Real estate prospect: yes, we had every team come up with goals and we ran off … we got a lot of things started but NOTHING done …
[ ] Publishing client: the blood drained from their faces …
[ ] This takes discipline.
[1] Telco SLAs got in the way of call center volumes when a campaign drove new business.
E.g. consider swapping goals (ref Joe Topinka?)
Goal: we want a high volume of emails to capture … we got junk
[ ] Having a clear understanding of your target market is critical.
Feelings. Experiences. Thoughts. Emotional bank account. Process. Touch points.
Journey Maps help identify how and what gets or prevents customers from moving through the decision making cycle:
Aware
Educate/confirm
Buy
Use
Lifecycle/service
this can be the longest and most important area depending on your business
[ ] Good to Great … the flywheel
[ ] Real estate prospect: yes, we had every team come up with goals and we ran off … we got a lot of things started but NOTHING done …
[ ] Publishing client: the blood drained from their faces …
[ ] This takes discipline.
Time, $, resources / skills
Data quality
It’s too hard
That’s the way we do things … It’s the way we’ve always do it … lack of desire to change …
I know what a good CX is (but I don’t research)
Too much data but not actionable information
No data and only hunches
No buy-in
If you don’t deal with culture … you company risks falling into this trap …
Disruptors: Digital => Kodak | Netflix => Blockbuster | Amazon => B2C | Digital => print / news / publishers | Uber => taxi companies
[1] Need to be consistent & continuous
[2] Silos interrupt consistency and create politics. Walk around your organization and break down silos. Trust = Speed: think how fast your organization could move if you were 100% together.
Disruptors: Digital => Kodak | Netflix => Blockbuster | Amazon => B2C | Digital => print / news / publishers | Uber => taxi companies | T-Mobile
Without CX, competition will eat your lunch.
[ ] Real estate prospect: yes, we had every team come up with goals and we ran off … we got a lot of things started but NOTHING done …
[ ] Publishing client: the blood drained from their faces …
[ ] This takes discipline.