Join us as Kyle Groff, Customer Insights Manager at JetBlue Airways, shares how the company lives up to its slogan: "You above all." You'll leave this webinar with key takeaways that will help you collect, analyze and act on customer insights in a smart, new way.
As you know, the difference is often in the details. Learn what ones are often overlooked and the ones that make the biggest difference of all.
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JetBlue Airways – “You Above All”
A leading carrier in:
Boston, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, Los Angeles (Long
Beach), New York, Orlando and San Juan
Carry more than 30 million customers a year
85 cities in the U.S., Caribbean and Latin America
Average of 825 daily flights
All seats are assigned
All fares are one-way
First checked bag is free
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Before We Start
VoC Channels
Social
Survey
Email
Transactional
Performance
Closing the Loop
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How do I build a robust VoC program?
What do I
measure?
How do I
measure it?
I have
metrics, now
what?
Everything for
everyone
Multiple Survey
Versions
Number Dump
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How?
Map
1
Develop
2
Test
3
Key Points
• Customer journey
• Identify major ‘buckets’
• Consider multiple points
of view
Key Outcome
• Outline of customer
journey broken into
major ‘buckets’
Key Points
• 3x final survey size
• Bucket coverage
• Card sort with multiple
judges
Key Outcome
• 2x final survey size
Key Points
• n = 300-400
• Examine inter-
correlations & factor
structure
• Revise ‘buckets’
Key Outcome
• 25-30 quantitative survey
questions
• Text depends on
customer journey
What?
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I have metrics, now what?
Levels
1
Process
2
Goals
3
Key Points
• Identify reporting
levels
• MacroMicro
Key Outcome
• Outline of where
customer data flows
within the org
Key Points
• Root cause
• Actionable insight
• Leverage text to
pinpoint opportunities
Key Outcome
• Detailed process
chart on how data will
flow and be actioned
Key Points
• Tie incentives to
customer experience
• Determine level of goal
setting
Key Outcome
• Linkage between key
customer metrics and
organizational levels
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The JetBlue Way
NPS
by City
Unique
Drivers
Text
Mining
City NPS
JFK 72
BOS 70
MCO 66
LGB 52
FLL 34 Performance
Impact
Top Complaint
1. Boarding
process
confusing
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Key Takeaways
1. Be the voice of the customer, not the company
2. Don’t shoot from the hip (be picky, be scientific)
Just because you can ask customers a question doesn’t mean you should.
Just because they answer doesn’t mean it will be valuable.
3. Identify issues at the macro level, solve issues at the
micro level
Create buy-in by removing excuses for action.
Back up data with a robust action process
Originally from Detroit, MI
Hold a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Married 3 years to my wife Cailin (pic included)
Have a 1 yr old Chocolate Lab named after my favorite English Ale (Boddington) (pic included)
In free time enjoy running, traveling, and watching sports
doing the Utah Valley Marathon in June
Favorite destination: Florence, Italy
Fan of all things Detroit sports as well as Michigan Football (U of M grad)
Qualtrics is the global leader in Voice of the Customer and Enterprise Survey technology.
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We all know how important VoC is, but do executives and front-line employees? I know this differs from company to company and I’m sure everyone on this webinar believes in customer obsession … but do our employees on the front line have this same vision?
In general when asking both executives and customers, “does your company deliver a superior customer experience?. . . On average 80% of executive said yes but, only 10% of customers.
[Promoter vs detractors]
On average, the likelihood for a promoter to repurchase is 80%, while that drops drastically to below 20% for detractors.
And finally, let’s take a look at the following figures … do these line up with your organization? Within your organization, where do you see the biggest opportunity for customer experience improvement in 2014? 25% said all of the above, but the biggest single area is in employee development at 20%. In just a minute, Kyle will be talking about what JetBlue does to improve the customer experience at the front line.
We all know we are living in a consumer-driven world, customers are king. The fact is: you are working hard to deliver the best products and services to your customers. So how do you really know if if you’re getting it right across your entire organization. That’s where we come in.
At Qualtrics, we help you capture customer, market and employee insights with cutting-edge technology. You can bring all of your data and insight into one place with a single platform and disseminate insights and corrective action to the right people at the right time and in the right place. And while you can leverage Qualtrics for so many things, we’re focused and bring the very best VoC technology to market. A big reason why JetBlue has standardized their entire VoC program on Qualtrics.
[Transition to Kyle]
I could speak on the subject of VoC design and implementation for hours on end. However, in the name of time, I am going to focus on what many consider the primary portion of VoC data, the customer survey. It is this channel that we here at JetBlue leverage most often to implement what I call our analytics in action program and will likely be of most interest to those of you joining us today.
Most common problem is “how do I get started?”
This breaks into 3 separate but related questions, all of which JetBlue recently worked through
What do I measure?
Though there are several VoC channels, survey is often the most misunderstood
The answer to this is typically “I don’t know” so instead of begin strategic, the default is to measure EVERYTHING
What starts as the Voice of the Customer shortly turns into the Voice of the Corporation
Each working grouping wants to insert specific questions
Before you know it, 30 questions become 150 questions
How do I measure it?
Now that you have 150 questions, next logical step is to make data analysis cumbersome by dividing one monster survey into 4-5 semi-monstorous survey
Regardless of your thoughts regarding multiple survey versions (I personally dislike them), you are still confronted with the question “are we asking the right questions?”
I have metrics, now what?
Lets say you have mastered the first two questions: you know what to measure and how to measure it…now what?
This is the part where many companies falter: designing a sound process for actioning the data
The what and how of building a robust VoC program are so closely related that I feel it best to discuss them together.
When we here at JetBlue decided to address the common issues we just discussed, we really started by tearing down what we had in place and building from the ground up. In order to do this, we followed a very strategic and scientific process. For those of you familiar with survey design, this portion should seem rather familiar. The techniques that we used are grounded in years of research and best practices.
Step 1:
Map the customer journey
Insure coverage of the entire domain; in this case, key customer touch points along their experience
In doing so, always err on the side of being overly detailed – you can always simply later
As you map out the journey, consult several sources if possible:
Marketing, product, and most importantly, directly solicit customer feedback
Once you have mapped the journey, see if you can identify the major buckets
Booking, Airport pre-security, Airport post-security, inflight/arrival, value
This will help you in the next step
Step 2:
Create questions to measure specific attributes along the journey
E.g., for check-in there are any number of ways to measure it
Rule of thumb is to create ~3x as many questions as you expect to use in the final survey
Good idea to have multiple people create questions independent of one another
After all questions are created, a separate group of people can be used to sort questions according to the customer journey
This is done to insure that questions have face validity; in my opinion, the most important factor when creating a customer survey
Step 3:
Now that you have created example questions, deleted duplicates and poorly written ones…you must statistically test
Using a combination of intercorrelation examination and factor analysis, the structure of the survey is empirically tested
Assuming the card sort was thorough, this will often result in relatively few changes; however, be ready to reexamine your customer journey map
Now that we have the nerdy portion of today’s presentation behind us, let’s focus on the real challenge…transforming data into tangible actions.
The “now what?” question is often where most companies become confused or completely derail their VoC program. This is in no way an indictment of a company’s commitment to customer service. The truth is that this stuff isn’t easy.
The first step in implementing an actionable VoC system is to document Levels:
What teams, branches, locations, etc. would benefit from having customer data
This is often broken into leadership (macro) vs. frontline (micro)
Leadership levels are interested in large, wide-spread issues and opportunities
Frontline is interested in what their specific issues and opportunities are
Step 2:
Design a root cause process that can be replicated across organizational levels
At JetBlue, we use a very well-defined process to action, especially on the micro side
Typically, root cause will start with some high level flag, followed by increasingly specific flags until an actionable insight is reached (sounds easy!)
Don’t forget that while quantitative data is extremely powerful, leveraging text can take your root cause process to the next level
Step 3:
Once you have a detailed process in place for actioning customer data, creating frontline buy-in is your final hurdle
Goes without saying that leadership support is a pre-requisite for this to happen, but it is the frontline workers that you truly live or die by
Without question, tying frontline goals to customer metrics is of the utmost importance
What gets rewarded gets done
These goals must be relevant and perceived as under their control
Now lets walk through an example of how JetBlue uses a root cause process to pinpoint opportunities.
All the data I present here is fictional, however, all processes are very much real and proven to be effective within our organization.
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