Which Segment of Analytics Space Can Drive the Best Customer Experience? By D. Daniel Ziv, VP Customer Analytics, Verint

Which Segment of Analytics Space Can Drive the Best Customer Experience?

D. Daniel Ziv, VP Customer Analytics, Verint | Monday, 24 April 2017, 06:07 IST

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The way to maximize your invest­ment in analytics technology is based on how well you leverage your data and insights to make bet­ter decisions and take more effec­tive actions. Most successful ana­lytics projects combine several different analytics disciplines including descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics.

These are defined as follows:

Descriptive Analytics - enables analytics users within an enterprise to query data integrated from multiple applications to create reports, dash­boards, or aggregated data that firms access via applications either directly or through APIs.

Predictive Analytics - is about creating predictive models that can predict an outcome with a sig­nificant probability of accuracy.

Prescriptive Analytics- is a combination of analyt­ics, math, experiments, simulation, and/or artifi­cial intelligence used to improve the effectiveness of decisions made by humans or by decision logic embedded in applications.

The most effective mix and balance be­tween these different types of analytics is usu­ally dependent on the task, available data, pre-existing knowledge and environment. To help explain further, let’s look at a how one or­ganization made steps toward delivering better customer experience

(Prescriptive Analytics: The Black Belt Of Digital Decisions Build The Last Mile Of Insights-To-Action To Finally Get Value From Investments In Data And Ana­lytics, Forrester, Mike Gualtieri, January 10, 2017)

Putting Analytics to Work—A Customer Example

NPS or Net Promoter Score - is used by many organizations to meas­ure customer experi­ence and advocacy and compare organizations with their peers. With goal in mind, organization should strive to go beyond just measuring their NPS score and use additional forms of analytics to better under­stand how they can impact and improve their overall customer ex­perience. That is exactly how First­source - a large business process outsourcer based in India - looked at the challenge.

The organization learned that its NPS surveys had a response rate of only 2-5 percent and didn’t provide enough actionable insight to inform decisions and actions. With this data in hand, it decided to dive deeper and apply analytics on all the data that was available, including those from recorded customer calls and textual interactions, including free-form survey comments.

This descriptive analytics exer­cise provided rich insight for un­derstanding the key drivers of cus­tomer dissatisfaction. The insights identified various process improve­ments that led to a $400,000 re­duction in unnecessary callbacks, another $400,000 improvement in self-service efficiencies on its IVR and additional $300,000 saved by improving web self-service. This effort also had a significant posi­tive impact on their NPS score and customer satisfaction.

The organization then leveraged what it had learned from the descrip­tive analytics exercise to go a step further into a predictive analytics experiment. With the low response rate on their NPS surveys, it was concerned that there may be many others within the 95 percent of cus­tomers who didn’t respond to any NPS survey that could be detractors or even ‘super detractors’. Super de­tractors are likely to have a signifi­cant negative impact on the overall brand by influencing others to leave or disengage from the company’s products or services.

Firstsource lever­aged the rich un­structured data from recorded customer phone calls mined and c a t e g or i z e d with speech analytics, and combined it with a sample of up to 5,000 NPS survey records. The organization then built a model that could pre­dict whether or not a customer is likely to be a super detractor, based on the content of previous phone interactions - even if they never re­sponded to a survey. To extend the effort, the company explored dif­ferent models, which combined ad­ditional structured CRM data and were surprised to find that the call transcription based model of cus­tomer calls yielded the best results. Negative emotions expressed in the calls, promised callbacks and multi­ple repeat interactions were some of the critical elements identified in the call content that helped accurately predict whether or not somebody would become a super detractor.

Armed with this new predictive model, the organization continued on to create a prescriptive model and process to try and recover any possible super detractor. Testing various actions, it created a model that could target the super detrac­tors with the most potential to be converted back to either neutral or promoter status with an effective outreach process. This new prescrip­tive model achieved a 26 percent successful conversion rate in switch­ing a previous “super detractor” to a neutral—and in some cases even to promoter status.

The Firstsource example illus­trates the impact of effective and ongoing descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics process. The combination of these differ­ent analytics methodologies with the right technology and team can achieve significant impact on customer experience design and delivery, as well as other key organizational metrics.

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