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white paper | 2012




  Cashing in on Customer Insight
 Customer analytics can help companies increase loyalty,
profitably grow revenue, and outmaneuver the competition
Cashing in on Customer Insight
  Customer analytics can help companies increase loyalty, profitably grow revenue,
  and outmaneuver the competition

  Executive Overview

  The New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote in a January op-ed for the paper that
  “Average is over.”1 Friedman was referring to the idea that average skills no longer enable someone
  to earn an average wage, due to heightened global competition. But he may well have been talking
  about what it takes to succeed as a business.
    Being an “average” company isn’t enough. For companies to succeed in today’s global market,
  they have to be exceptional in some way. But it’s become increasingly difficult for most compa-
  nies to differentiate themselves based on their products and prices. The best way to stand out
  today is by offering a unique customer experience.2 Doing so starts by demonstrating a thorough
  understanding of customers and by turning that insight into action to meet their specific needs and         Contents
  preferences.3                                                                                               Executive Overview_______ 2
    Customers’ actions and interactions speak volumes. Purchase behaviors, social conversations,              Creating the Full
  contact center interactions, responses to promotions—these actions and discussions provide unique           Customer Picture_________ 4
  insight into customers’ needs and preferences. Unlocking these insights through customer analytics          Assembling the Pieces____ 5
  allows companies to gain the understanding of their customers required to deliver unique customer           Pinpointing Profitable
  experiences. It also helps organizations determine optimal ways to improve customer engagement,             Customers_______________ 7
  lifetime value, and satisfaction; and take action to make customer-focused improvements.4                   Conclusion_______________ 9
    With customer analytics—including predictive analytics, social analytics, business intelligence,
  and decision management—companies are empowered to improve the customer experience and
  maximize business outcomes by being proactive, rather than reactive. Comments made in social
  channels about a perceived problem with a checkout tool on a company’s website, for example, can
  alert company decision-makers about a potential issue before it hits the contact center.


  Four ways to leverage customer analytics
  First, by analyzing a mix of structured (e.g., transaction data, customer survey data, demographics)
  and unstructured (e.g., social media chatter, contact center notes) customer behavior and feedback
  data, decision-makers can gain a much clearer understanding of customer pain points in addi-
  tion to their needs and preferences. These insights can translate directly into customer experience
  improvements, process improvements, and business benefits.
    For instance, analyzing a mix of structured and unstructured data using advanced and social
  media analytics can reveal what channels customers prefer to use for interacting with companies
  and when they prefer to interact, based on such factors as the circumstances surrounding an inter-
  action and the time of day. “Customers tell us a great deal in their different types of interactions with
  companies,” says Deepak Advani, vice president, business analytics products and solutions, at IBM.
  “The use of analytics and BI for reporting results can help business leaders to identify what’s impor-
  tant to different customers, pinpoint the next best action, and follow through with the appropriate
  response that resonates with customers.”
    Understanding customers’ needs, pain points, and preferences and acting on those insights is
  also critical to customer retention, and, thus, to business success. Customer expectations today
  are higher than ever, and many companies are struggling to retain customers. A recent survey
  by Accenture of 10,000 consumers across 27 countries found that two thirds of respondents (66
  percent) switched brand loyalty in 2011 due to dissatisfaction with customer service.5 Customer
  analytics provides insight that curbs churn and boosts retention.




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Second, organizations can use customer analytics to help mine disparate data sources to build
   rich customer profiles that reveal cross- and upsell opportunities to marketing, sales, and customer
   service operations that may have been overlooked. Retailers can use customer analytics, for exam-
   ple, to conduct market-basket analyses to better understand what products customers have and
   what they may need. In addition, contact center systems can draw from data to prompt agents
   with the relevant information and appropriate actions when cross- or upsell opportunities present
   themselves during support interactions. By gaining this deep, holistic customer insight, companies
   are better able to increase customer lifetime value.6 According to a recent Aberdeen Group report,
                                                                                                               “Analytics can help busi-
   companies that use predictive analytics enjoyed a 73 percent higher sales lift than companies that          ness leaders to identify
   don’t use these tools.7 Indeed, advanced analytic and BI tools can provide business leaders with a          what’s important to differ-
   single version of the truth when it comes to obtaining a full view of each customer.                        ent customers, pinpoint
                                                                                                               the next best action, and
     Third, the strategic use of customer analytics provides companies with myriad opportunities to
                                                                                                               follow through with the
   improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. More relevant and timely interactions and offers, for exam-      appropriate response.”
   ple, can make customers feel understood and valued. Tracking customer sentiment and responding              —Deepak Advani,
   appropriately, as well as reaching out to customers before dissatisfaction occurs (e.g., providing alerts   vice president, business
                                                                                                               analytics products and
   so customers avoid a banking overdraft or mobile-overage fees), can stimulate customer satisfaction,        solutions, IBM
   reduce churn, and help keep customers loyal. Companies can use predictive analytics and decision
   management tools to gain the kind of insights needed to help retain customers.
     Fourth, decision-makers can use customer analytics to measure and report on key customer
   trends influencing sales, marketing, or customer support strategies. Real-time dashboards and busi-
   ness intelligence tools make it possible for business leaders to act quickly and decisively on critical
   issues shaping business outcomes. For instance, a decision-maker who sees a sudden downturn in
   single satisfaction score for business operations in a particular region can drill down to determine
   the root cause, and then take quick action to resolve the issue.
     Companies can then use planning and forecasting analysis to ensure budget optimization while
   applying predictive analytics to customer data to make the right offer at the right time through the
   right channel to the right customers. By delivering more relevant and targeted offers, businesses
   can reduce marketing waste, improve customer satisfaction, and drive higher conversion rates.
     “Your competitors are after your best customers, regardless of the industry you operate in,” says
   Hamit Hamutcu, partner at Peppers & Rogers Group. “Customers have a lot of options, so companies
   have to work harder at understanding customers’ needs, behaviors, attitudes, and preferences.”8




  Highlights:
  Supported by insights from IBM and Peppers & Rogers Group, this white paper will help readers learn how to:

  • dentify granular attributes about customers (e.g., life-stage
    I                                                                    •  everage customer intelligence to deliver more
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   changes) that marketing and customer service departments               targeted communications, which can help
   can use to improve communications and offers.                          strengthen the customer-company relationship.
  • ntegrate social and other unstructured data with traditional
    I                                                                    •  mp up customer intelligence by adding analytics
                                                                           A
   enterprise feedback and transactional information to develop           and executive dashboards to determine which
   a multidimensional view of each customer.                              marketing campaigns are most effective with certain
  •  se predictive analytics and other types of analysis to opti-
    U                                                                     customer groups and why.
   mize offer types, timing, and delivery channel, and to forecast
   the anticipated customer value generated as a result.




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Creating the Full Customer Picture
 Customers are complex. Each one has different needs, attitudes, preferences, earning power,
 and life events, and can’t be defined simply by her most recent purchase or the pages she visited
 on a company’s website. A compilation of various attributes helps complete the picture of each
 customer. Without the full range of characteristics, each customer picture is incomplete.                                 “As the sources of unstruc-
                                                                                                                           tured social customer data
   Fortunately, customers divulge a great deal about themselves through their multichannel                                 continue to grow, business
 interactions with companies—both intentionally and inadvertently. For instance, customers’                                leaders armed with the
 responses to email and direct mail offers, online behaviors, and contact center interactions (e.g.,                       right tools and resources
                                                                                                                           will be able to harvest these
 agent versus interactive voice response [IVR], reasons, and frequency) reveal an abundance of
                                                                                                                           sources of customer in-
 information about themselves and their attitudes and opinions. Additionally, many customers                               sights to help craft person-
 publicize their preferences and attitudes about brands and products on Facebook, Twitter, and                             alized sales, marketing, and
 other social channels. They also share a great deal about their interests and changes in their life                       support experiences that
                                                                                                                           lead to improved customer
 stages (e.g., tweeting about the birth of a first grandchild).                                                            satisfaction and stronger
   Using customer analytics to dig deeply into information that customers share through their                              business returns.”
 interactions in various channels can reveal granular attributes like why they visited a website                           —Erick Brethenoux,
 or dropped off before completing a transaction. This detailed information can provide business                            director, business analytics
                                                                                                                           and decision management
 leaders with fodder for analysis that competitors can’t match, because they don’t have access                             strategy, IBM
 to the same breadth of data. Analysis of this unique blend of customer attributes can provide
 abundant actionable insights like improvements that can be made to self-service technologies
 to increase adoption or specific enhancements to product information on a website that can help
 improve conversion rates.
   Additionally, decision-makers can access that insight quickly by using today’s customer ana-
 lytics tools. “It’s now extremely easy for executives in sales, marketing, and service to have
 real-time information about what their customers are buying—or not,” Peppers  Rogers
 Group’s Hamutcu says. As a result, using analytics against these types of customer insights can
 make it easier for business leaders to answer critical business questions quickly (e.g., What can
 we do to address the churn risk for this particular set of customers? or Which customers will
 respond to an offer for X in which channel?).12,13 “All of those questions that took a lot more time
 to answer in the past can now be addressed almost instantaneously,” Hamutcu says.




     Figure 1:   Outperforming the Competition
     Best-in-class companies that effectively use predictive analytics typically outperform other companies
     in several aspects of marketing, according to a February 2012 report by Aberdeen Group.




            YOY change in lifetime                                                                        13%
                  customer value                     2.3%

                                                                             7.1%
            Average response rate
                                                                 4.8%

                                                      2.6%                   ■ Leaders
               Average opt-out rate                                          ■ Followers
                                                             3.9%

                                                            Percentage, n=112


       Source: “Divide  Conquer: Using Predictive Analytics to Segment, Target, and Optimize Marketing,” Aberdeen Group




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Too many companies overlook opportunities for using customer information that’s shared
  with them in social, mobile, email, and other channels. According to the 2011 IBM Global Chief
  Marketing Officer Study of 1,734 executives, just 26 percent of responding CMOs and their orga-
  nizations are tracking blogs, 42 percent are tracking third-party reviews, and 48 percent are
  monitoring consumer reviews to help shape marketing strategies.14,15 Companies are prevent-
  ing themselves from obtaining more holistic views of their customers if they neglect customer
  attitudes and sentiments shared in social channels.16 Companies that blend structured and
  unstructured customer data are able to develop richer and fuller customer profiles that can
  enable them to build more comprehensive predictive and propensity models that lead to more
  successful results, IBM’s Advani says.


  Assembling the Pieces
  Completing the entire customer picture today involves assembling customer insights from multiple
  sources. This includes traditional sources like customer surveys, in addition to customer sentiment   “Business leaders who
                                                                                                        have a clearer picture of
  and other information that companies can uncover from comments made in social channels.
                                                                                                        each customer are better
    A recent Harvard Business Review survey of 2,100 companies found that while 66 percent of           equipped to develop
  respondents are either currently using social media channels or have social media plans in the        more accurate propen-
  works, just 23 percent are using social media analytics, while just 5 percent are using some form     sity models and execute
                                                                                                        strategies that have a
  of sentiment analysis.17 These companies are missing tremendous opportunities for learning
                                                                                                        much higher likelihood
  about customer needs and preferences that are being shared in social channels.                        of success.”
    “To obtain a holistic view of the customer, companies need to do finer-grained customer             —Hamit Hamutcu,
  segmentation down to a segment of one,” IBM’s Advani says. This includes demographic                  partner, Peppers 
                                                                                                        Rogers Group
  and transactional information about individual customers, but it goes much further than this,
  according to Advani. To properly understand customer needs, preferences, and motivations,
  companies also must analyze customer behaviors across channels. Additionally, the analysis
  within each channel should be multidimensional. For example, what behaviors are customers
  exhibiting on a company’s website? What did they do during their last visit? How long did they
  stay? When did they leave and why?
    Of course, companies sometimes find themselves missing vital information about customers
  that’s needed to gain a complete view. This can include critical demographic information like the
  ages and genders of children in a household or a recent change in earning status for particular
  customers. By using customer analytics against existing customer information, decision-makers
  can identify customer information gaps and then conduct very targeted and concise surveys or
  prompt contact center agents to ask customers specific questions to fill in the blanks, says Erick
  Brethenoux, director, business analytics and decision management strategy, IBM.
    Blending structured and unstructured customer data, including new information uncovered
  by analyses of information gaps, provides decision-makers with incredibly rich data about their
  customers. Business leaders who have a clearer picture of each customer are better equipped
  to develop more accurate propensity models and execute strategies that have a much higher
  likelihood of success, Peppers  Rogers Group’s Hamutcu says.


  A single customer view
  Gaining a complete view of customers includes being able to blend, analyze, and act on cus-
  tomer information that is sometimes siloed in separate business divisions and functional areas.
  Siloed information had been a challenge for Suncorp-Metway Ltd., a diversified financial ser-
  vices company with operations in Australia and New Zealand.
    Mergers and acquisitions over the past decade increased its customer base by 200 percent.18
  But this decade-long period of growth also led to 23 different source systems for customer data,



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making it difficult for it to gain a single view of customers. Suncorp-Metway executives wanted
  a single, integrated view of its customers to ensure that its marketing campaigns didn’t result
  in internal conflict between its brands or in a duplication of effort, both of which would have a
  negative effect on the company’s bottom line.
    By creating a master data hub supported by IBM business intelligence, the company reduced
  23 million source records into 9 million unique accounts that contain all the data available for
  each customer in one place. This single view enabled Suncorp-Metway to gain a deeper under-
                                                                                                                      “To obtain a holistic view
  standing of each customer’s total value across multiple products. Suncorp-Metway executives
                                                                                                                      of the customer, companies
  now make more informed decisions about which products to promote to what customers.                                 need to do finer-grained
    Suncorp-Metway’s efforts have generated multiple business benefits. Using customer ana-                           customer segmentation
  lytics helped the company to reduce its direct mail and related operating costs by eliminating                      down to a segment of one.”

  duplicate mailings to the same households and eliminating redundant systems. In addition, the                       —Deepak Advani,
                                                                                                                      vice president, business
  new master data hub helped the company save roughly USD 10 million annually on integra-                             analytics products and
  tion and associated costs. Further, because the company has a richer view of each customer,                         solutions, IBM

  Suncorp-Metway has been able to significantly increase market share in key product areas with-
  out having to increase its marketing spend. “The more information you can collect about your
  customers, the more accurate your analytic models will be,” Advani says.
    For some business leaders, having extensive customer data can be overwhelming. Although
  many decision-makers express growing interest in the use of “Big Data” (or large sets of both
  structured and unstructured customer data), some feel intimidated by two factors: the sheer
  volume of data coming into the organizations and how to determine which data are relevant.
  By using statistical algorithms, executives can determine what data is and isn’t relevant, thus
  reducing the pool of potential data sources to the most germane information, says IBM’s
  Brethenoux.




    Figure 2:   Creating a Complete Customer View
    Companies that capture, analyze, and then act on a full set of customers’ interactions, including those
    from social, the contact center, transactions, and online, outpace their competitors in customer reten-
    tion, customer satisfaction, and customer value, according to a recent study by Aberdeen Group.19




                  360-Degree View Offers Competitive Advantage to Best-in-Class Firms


    100%

     80%
                                                                                           ■ Best in Class
     60%                                                                                   ■ Industry Average
                                                                                           ■ Laggards
     40%

     20%

      0%

    -20%
                  Customer                  Customer                % of time spent             Increase in net
                  retention                satisfaction            searching for data          client value YOY


    Source: Aberdeen Group, “Creating a Complete Customer View: Best Practices in Master Data Management,” May 2011




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Pinpointing Profitable Customers
  As decision-makers become more experienced using customer analytics, they uncover customer
  insights and ways of applying analytics that they previously hadn’t considered. These include fresh
  approaches to devising relevant, compelling offers for customers and to determining the most
  effective approach for delivering those offers and communicating with customers based on their
  behaviors and stated or inferred channel preferences.
    Business leaders can also use customer analytics to refine their cross- and upsell execution. For
  example, they can more accurately determine what products customers have purchased and the
  next logical product to offer a customer based on transaction history, recent web pages visited, and
  products purchased by customers with similar traits.
    Additionally, decision-makers can draw from a blend of structured and unstructured customer
  data to shape personalized sales, marketing, and customer support strategies that truly resonate          “Companies can use a
                                                                                                            blend of transaction,
  with targeted customers. For instance, when a customer calls a contact center, a company can use
                                                                                                            demographic, life stage,
  speech and predictive analytics against the information in real time—as well as a customer’s histori-     and other customer data
  cal information with the company—to determine the likelihood for that customer to defect, and can         to gain deeper insights
  then proactively extend a relevant offer or response intended to retain her.                              into how much value a
                                                                                                            customer is generating
                                                                                                            for them today and what
  Analyzing customer activity                                                                               their potential future
  Providing customers with personalized and relevant communications can help foster customer loy-           value may be.”
  alty while increasing customer value in two ways. First, customers who feel they’re understood            —Hamit Hamutcu,
                                                                                                            partner, Peppers 
  and appreciated by a company are more willing to continue doing business with that organization,          Rogers Group
  Peppers  Rogers Group’s Hamutcu says. In addition, engaged customers are also more likely to
  share the positive experiences they’ve had with a company with friends and associates, thus helping
  to generate incremental revenue.
    First Tennessee Bank had done an effective job of collecting data. And yet, amid this abundance
  of data, it had a scarcity of cohesive, actionable marketing insights.20 Bank officials determined that
  they needed a better way to analyze the large volumes of customer data the bank gathers and
  to use that information more effectively for decision making. The bank had built a customer data
  warehouse and gathered information from sources like online banking records, ATMs, and call cen-
  ter interactions. Nonetheless, the bank still had trouble predicting customers’ future behaviors and
  making decisions because it lacked effective techniques and tools for analyzing the information.
    One area where the bank saw room for improvement was in its marketing department’s com-
  munications. Each month the bank sent out a mailing designed to get customers to purchase a bank
  product they weren’t using, such as a checking account or a CD. The campaigns were relatively suc-
  cessful, even though the bank was working with limited data sets and without the use of automated
  statistical tools. But marketing managers believed the campaigns would have higher success rates
  if the mailings targeted a broader, more automated analysis of the bank’s customers that included
  customer preferences, behaviors, and transactional histories.
    Consequently, First Tennessee Bank began using IBM predictive analytics solutions with its cus-
  tomer data sources and historical data on the bank’s marketing campaigns. The marketing team
  experimented with different models to hone their data modeling skills, with the goal of cross-selling
  more of the bank’s products to customers.
    By using IBM customer analytics solutions to analyze data related to customer activity and his-
  torical marketing campaigns, the bank has reduced its marketing costs, increased net income, and
  improved marketing staff productivity. For instance, by analyzing more customer data points, such
  as ATM habits, transaction volumes, and call center interactions, and matching this information with
  cross-sell opportunities for checking accounts, savings accounts, CDs, and home equity loans, the
  bank’s marketing department has increased the conversion rate of its marketing mailings by more



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than 3 percent. Additionally, because the bank’s marketers are armed with greater insights about
  its customers, they can send better-targeted, more specific offers. As a result, the bank has slashed
  its printing, materials, and postage costs by 20 percent. In addition, the marketing team reduced the
  amount of time spent on marketing campaigns by 8 percent.
     Overall, the bank’s use of IBM predictive analytics has delivered a whopping 642 percent ROI,
  based on an analysis conducted by Nucleus Research. Compelling financial returns like these
  are a key reason why a growing number of companies like First Tennessee Bank are investing                        First Tennessee Bank’s
  in the use of customer analytics.                                                                                 use of predictive ana-
     Savvy companies use a blend of transactional, demographic, life stage, and other customer                      lytics has delivered a
                                                                                                                    whopping 642 percent
  data to develop a clearer picture of the real value that a customer is generating for them today
                                                                                                                    ROI, according to
  and what their potential future value is expected to be, Peppers  Rogers Group’s Hamutcu                         Nucleus Research.
  says. This includes using customer data and analytics to determine which customers are worth
  keeping and which ones are a cost-drag on the enterprise.
     Business leaders can leverage these insights to help them develop relevant offers and to
  design more customized channel experiences for high-value customers. For instance, under-
  standing how most valuable or most growable customers use a company’s website and why
  they behave the way in which they do (e.g., pages visited, why they leave) during these inter-
  actions can help decision-makers to determine the types of functionality and capabilities that
  could further improve customer experiences. Such efforts can help companies to engage these
  customers more effectively and increase their loyalty and lifetime value, IBM’s Advani says.
  Additionally, insights about customer value and channel preferences and behaviors can also
  help decision-makers develop strategies for attracting and guiding different customer segments
  to specific channels based on that insight. Lower-value customers who call the contact center to
  use the IVR for self-service, for example, may be directed to the website for a more comprehen-
  sive self-service experience that also costs the company less.




   Figure 3:   Improving Business Performance
   A recent Accenture survey of 800 senior executives at blue-chip companies around the world found that customer analytics have deliv-
   ered significant business benefits, including substantial marketing campaign performance ROI and improvements in customer revenue.21



                                              ■ % saying very beneficial

         Speed/level of customer activity                                                                       26%

                  Speed of customer return                                                              23%

                  Sales team management                                                                             27%

               Individual customer revenue                                                        21%

 Determining reasons for losing customer                                                                              28%

           Customer service performance                                                                                   29%

   Marketing campaign performance/ROI                                                                         25%

               Customer activity by channel                                                                                      32%


   Source: Accenture Customer Analytics Survey, May 2011




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Companies can also benefit from using customer analytics to provide offers or perform proactive
  outreach that demonstrates that the company is looking out for customers’ best interests. This could
  take the form of a reminder, for example, that a product warranty is about to expire or that there
  may be a less-expensive service plan that’s better suited for them.
    Although such actions by a company may temporarily impact short-term revenues, the cus-
  tomer trust that these actions engender will likely lead customers to buy more from the company
  in the future and to recommend that company to others, thus generating greater long-term cus-
  tomer value, Hamutcu says.
    A large retailer IBM works with has used predictive analytics to improve the efficiency and
  effectiveness of its email marketing campaigns. The retailer has built propensity models to iden-
  tify the right set of customers for a particular offer and focus its email campaigns on a narrower     “Customer analytics can
  set of customers that have a higher propensity to buy. These efforts enabled the retailer to           guide business leaders to
  improve the performance of its email marketing campaigns, increase the productivity of its             make faster, smarter, more
                                                                                                         effective decisions.”
  email marketing team, and drive higher conversion rates. Meanwhile, the retailer’s customers
                                                                                                         —Erick Brethenoux,
  are receiving more relevant offers that lead them to feel that the company truly understands           director, business analytics
  their needs and preferences, resulting in a more satisfied and loyal customer base.                    and decision management
                                                                                                         strategy, IBM

  Conclusion
  The amount of customer data now available through an array of channels and sources is stag-
  gering. According to Gartner, the world now generates as much information every two days as
  it did from the dawn of civilization to the year 2003.
    Companies need to gather and act on the wide range of customer data available to them.
  Customer analytics can guide business leaders to make faster, smarter, more effective decisions
  around specific customer requirements and budding market trends, IBM’s Brethenoux says.
    These decision-making capabilities include being able to forecast the amount of investment
  that a company should make in a particular customer or group of customers who have similar
  traits, based on the amount of potential value those customers are expected to yield in the
  future.
    Companies’ use of customer analytics often involves tackling a particular business opportu-
  nity from a reverse-workflow approach. Business leaders can start by identifying the outcome
  that a business unit is attempting to achieve and by assessing the organization’s capabilities for
  achieving that outcome. For example, leaders looking to reduce customer churn by 10 percent
  can use customer analytics to help identify primary churn triggers and the steps that can be
  taken to address those issues. As part of these efforts, decision-makers also must determine the
  key inhibitors (e.g., siloed data) that must be removed before the organization can successfully
  embark on its customer analytics journey.
    Analytics efforts need to be woven into the everyday operations of a business. When cus-
  tomer analytics are managed as a stand-alone function, the value delivered to the business
  is often much more limited, because it’s likely that the organization’s culture isn’t analytically
  driven and doesn’t foster an environment of continuous learning and improvement. However,
  companies that are able to work through obstacles like data silos learn from their use of cus-
  tomer analytics, and then apply best practices going forward have a far greater likelihood of
  achieving consistent success.
    An analytically driven organization takes the time to understand individual customers and
  uses that information to tailor offers to them. This kind of personalization is critical for compa-
  nies looking to differentiate themselves with customers. “You have to use the information that’s
  available to make the customer’s experience special,” IBM’s Advani says, “because if you don’t,
  your competitors will.” n



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About IBM Business Analytics
  IBM Business Analytics software delivers actionable insights decision-makers need to achieve
  better business performance. IBM offers a comprehensive, unified portfolio of business intel-
  ligence, predictive and advanced analytics, financial performance and strategy management,
  governance, risk and compliance, and analytic applications.
    With IBM software, companies can spot trends, patterns ,and anomalies, compare “what if”
  scenarios, predict potential threats and opportunities, identify and manage key business risks,
  and plan, budget, and forecast resources. With these deep analytic capabilities our customers
  around the world can better understand, anticipate, and shape business outcomes.

  For more information please visit www.ibm.com/business-analytics


  About Peppers  Rogers Group
  Peppers  Rogers Group is dedicated to helping its clients improve business performance by
  acquiring, retaining, and growing profitable customers. As products become commodities and glo-
  balization picks up speed, customers have become the scarcest resource in business. They hold the
  keys to higher profit today and stronger enterprise value tomorrow. We help clients achieve these
  goals by building the right relationships with the right customers over the right channels.
     We earn our keep by solving the business problems of our clients. By delivering a superior
  1to1 Strategy, we remove the operational and organizational barriers that stand in the way of
  profitable customer relationships. We show clients where to focus customer-facing resources to
  improve the performance of their marketing, sales, and service initiatives.

  For more information please visit www.peppersandrogersgroup.com


  About 1to1 Media
  1to1® Media is dedicated to helping organizations across the globe realize the greatest value from
  their customer base. We provide resources that help senior executives to drive change and make
  customer-based initiatives the centerpiece of their growth strategy.
    1to1 Media’s custom publications explore the best practices, trends, and developments from
  companies that are using customer initiatives to drive bottom-line impact. Backed by Peppers 
  Rogers Group, the globally recognized leader in customer strategy and relationship marketing,
  1to1 Media combines thought leadership, field experience, and editorial expertise to deliver the
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       Peppers, Don (2010). Capitalizing on Customer Analytics, 1to1 In Action Series.
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       Arnott, Grant (2011, May 16). Leveraging return-on-customeróDon Peppers, PowerMarketer.
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        hayon, Sheila (2012, February 2). Accenture: Boost Loyalty by Avoiding Blind Spots,
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        aur, Priya (2012, March 12). Understanding Real Value of Your Customers Over Their Lifecycle
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Cashing in on Customer Insight: How Analytics Can Increase Loyalty and Revenue

  • 1. white paper | 2012 Cashing in on Customer Insight Customer analytics can help companies increase loyalty, profitably grow revenue, and outmaneuver the competition
  • 2. Cashing in on Customer Insight Customer analytics can help companies increase loyalty, profitably grow revenue, and outmaneuver the competition Executive Overview The New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote in a January op-ed for the paper that “Average is over.”1 Friedman was referring to the idea that average skills no longer enable someone to earn an average wage, due to heightened global competition. But he may well have been talking about what it takes to succeed as a business. Being an “average” company isn’t enough. For companies to succeed in today’s global market, they have to be exceptional in some way. But it’s become increasingly difficult for most compa- nies to differentiate themselves based on their products and prices. The best way to stand out today is by offering a unique customer experience.2 Doing so starts by demonstrating a thorough understanding of customers and by turning that insight into action to meet their specific needs and Contents preferences.3 Executive Overview_______ 2 Customers’ actions and interactions speak volumes. Purchase behaviors, social conversations, Creating the Full contact center interactions, responses to promotions—these actions and discussions provide unique Customer Picture_________ 4 insight into customers’ needs and preferences. Unlocking these insights through customer analytics Assembling the Pieces____ 5 allows companies to gain the understanding of their customers required to deliver unique customer Pinpointing Profitable experiences. It also helps organizations determine optimal ways to improve customer engagement, Customers_______________ 7 lifetime value, and satisfaction; and take action to make customer-focused improvements.4 Conclusion_______________ 9 With customer analytics—including predictive analytics, social analytics, business intelligence, and decision management—companies are empowered to improve the customer experience and maximize business outcomes by being proactive, rather than reactive. Comments made in social channels about a perceived problem with a checkout tool on a company’s website, for example, can alert company decision-makers about a potential issue before it hits the contact center. Four ways to leverage customer analytics First, by analyzing a mix of structured (e.g., transaction data, customer survey data, demographics) and unstructured (e.g., social media chatter, contact center notes) customer behavior and feedback data, decision-makers can gain a much clearer understanding of customer pain points in addi- tion to their needs and preferences. These insights can translate directly into customer experience improvements, process improvements, and business benefits. For instance, analyzing a mix of structured and unstructured data using advanced and social media analytics can reveal what channels customers prefer to use for interacting with companies and when they prefer to interact, based on such factors as the circumstances surrounding an inter- action and the time of day. “Customers tell us a great deal in their different types of interactions with companies,” says Deepak Advani, vice president, business analytics products and solutions, at IBM. “The use of analytics and BI for reporting results can help business leaders to identify what’s impor- tant to different customers, pinpoint the next best action, and follow through with the appropriate response that resonates with customers.” Understanding customers’ needs, pain points, and preferences and acting on those insights is also critical to customer retention, and, thus, to business success. Customer expectations today are higher than ever, and many companies are struggling to retain customers. A recent survey by Accenture of 10,000 consumers across 27 countries found that two thirds of respondents (66 percent) switched brand loyalty in 2011 due to dissatisfaction with customer service.5 Customer analytics provides insight that curbs churn and boosts retention. ©2012 Peppers & Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 2
  • 3. Second, organizations can use customer analytics to help mine disparate data sources to build rich customer profiles that reveal cross- and upsell opportunities to marketing, sales, and customer service operations that may have been overlooked. Retailers can use customer analytics, for exam- ple, to conduct market-basket analyses to better understand what products customers have and what they may need. In addition, contact center systems can draw from data to prompt agents with the relevant information and appropriate actions when cross- or upsell opportunities present themselves during support interactions. By gaining this deep, holistic customer insight, companies are better able to increase customer lifetime value.6 According to a recent Aberdeen Group report, “Analytics can help busi- companies that use predictive analytics enjoyed a 73 percent higher sales lift than companies that ness leaders to identify don’t use these tools.7 Indeed, advanced analytic and BI tools can provide business leaders with a what’s important to differ- single version of the truth when it comes to obtaining a full view of each customer. ent customers, pinpoint the next best action, and Third, the strategic use of customer analytics provides companies with myriad opportunities to follow through with the improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. More relevant and timely interactions and offers, for exam- appropriate response.” ple, can make customers feel understood and valued. Tracking customer sentiment and responding —Deepak Advani, appropriately, as well as reaching out to customers before dissatisfaction occurs (e.g., providing alerts vice president, business analytics products and so customers avoid a banking overdraft or mobile-overage fees), can stimulate customer satisfaction, solutions, IBM reduce churn, and help keep customers loyal. Companies can use predictive analytics and decision management tools to gain the kind of insights needed to help retain customers. Fourth, decision-makers can use customer analytics to measure and report on key customer trends influencing sales, marketing, or customer support strategies. Real-time dashboards and busi- ness intelligence tools make it possible for business leaders to act quickly and decisively on critical issues shaping business outcomes. For instance, a decision-maker who sees a sudden downturn in single satisfaction score for business operations in a particular region can drill down to determine the root cause, and then take quick action to resolve the issue. Companies can then use planning and forecasting analysis to ensure budget optimization while applying predictive analytics to customer data to make the right offer at the right time through the right channel to the right customers. By delivering more relevant and targeted offers, businesses can reduce marketing waste, improve customer satisfaction, and drive higher conversion rates. “Your competitors are after your best customers, regardless of the industry you operate in,” says Hamit Hamutcu, partner at Peppers & Rogers Group. “Customers have a lot of options, so companies have to work harder at understanding customers’ needs, behaviors, attitudes, and preferences.”8 Highlights: Supported by insights from IBM and Peppers & Rogers Group, this white paper will help readers learn how to: • dentify granular attributes about customers (e.g., life-stage I • everage customer intelligence to deliver more L changes) that marketing and customer service departments targeted communications, which can help can use to improve communications and offers. strengthen the customer-company relationship. • ntegrate social and other unstructured data with traditional I • mp up customer intelligence by adding analytics A enterprise feedback and transactional information to develop and executive dashboards to determine which a multidimensional view of each customer. marketing campaigns are most effective with certain • se predictive analytics and other types of analysis to opti- U customer groups and why. mize offer types, timing, and delivery channel, and to forecast the anticipated customer value generated as a result. ©2012 Peppers Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 3
  • 4. Creating the Full Customer Picture Customers are complex. Each one has different needs, attitudes, preferences, earning power, and life events, and can’t be defined simply by her most recent purchase or the pages she visited on a company’s website. A compilation of various attributes helps complete the picture of each customer. Without the full range of characteristics, each customer picture is incomplete. “As the sources of unstruc- tured social customer data Fortunately, customers divulge a great deal about themselves through their multichannel continue to grow, business interactions with companies—both intentionally and inadvertently. For instance, customers’ leaders armed with the responses to email and direct mail offers, online behaviors, and contact center interactions (e.g., right tools and resources will be able to harvest these agent versus interactive voice response [IVR], reasons, and frequency) reveal an abundance of sources of customer in- information about themselves and their attitudes and opinions. Additionally, many customers sights to help craft person- publicize their preferences and attitudes about brands and products on Facebook, Twitter, and alized sales, marketing, and other social channels. They also share a great deal about their interests and changes in their life support experiences that lead to improved customer stages (e.g., tweeting about the birth of a first grandchild). satisfaction and stronger Using customer analytics to dig deeply into information that customers share through their business returns.” interactions in various channels can reveal granular attributes like why they visited a website —Erick Brethenoux, or dropped off before completing a transaction. This detailed information can provide business director, business analytics and decision management leaders with fodder for analysis that competitors can’t match, because they don’t have access strategy, IBM to the same breadth of data. Analysis of this unique blend of customer attributes can provide abundant actionable insights like improvements that can be made to self-service technologies to increase adoption or specific enhancements to product information on a website that can help improve conversion rates. Additionally, decision-makers can access that insight quickly by using today’s customer ana- lytics tools. “It’s now extremely easy for executives in sales, marketing, and service to have real-time information about what their customers are buying—or not,” Peppers Rogers Group’s Hamutcu says. As a result, using analytics against these types of customer insights can make it easier for business leaders to answer critical business questions quickly (e.g., What can we do to address the churn risk for this particular set of customers? or Which customers will respond to an offer for X in which channel?).12,13 “All of those questions that took a lot more time to answer in the past can now be addressed almost instantaneously,” Hamutcu says. Figure 1: Outperforming the Competition Best-in-class companies that effectively use predictive analytics typically outperform other companies in several aspects of marketing, according to a February 2012 report by Aberdeen Group. YOY change in lifetime 13% customer value 2.3% 7.1% Average response rate 4.8% 2.6% ■ Leaders Average opt-out rate ■ Followers 3.9% Percentage, n=112 Source: “Divide Conquer: Using Predictive Analytics to Segment, Target, and Optimize Marketing,” Aberdeen Group ©2012 Peppers Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 4
  • 5. Too many companies overlook opportunities for using customer information that’s shared with them in social, mobile, email, and other channels. According to the 2011 IBM Global Chief Marketing Officer Study of 1,734 executives, just 26 percent of responding CMOs and their orga- nizations are tracking blogs, 42 percent are tracking third-party reviews, and 48 percent are monitoring consumer reviews to help shape marketing strategies.14,15 Companies are prevent- ing themselves from obtaining more holistic views of their customers if they neglect customer attitudes and sentiments shared in social channels.16 Companies that blend structured and unstructured customer data are able to develop richer and fuller customer profiles that can enable them to build more comprehensive predictive and propensity models that lead to more successful results, IBM’s Advani says. Assembling the Pieces Completing the entire customer picture today involves assembling customer insights from multiple sources. This includes traditional sources like customer surveys, in addition to customer sentiment “Business leaders who have a clearer picture of and other information that companies can uncover from comments made in social channels. each customer are better A recent Harvard Business Review survey of 2,100 companies found that while 66 percent of equipped to develop respondents are either currently using social media channels or have social media plans in the more accurate propen- works, just 23 percent are using social media analytics, while just 5 percent are using some form sity models and execute strategies that have a of sentiment analysis.17 These companies are missing tremendous opportunities for learning much higher likelihood about customer needs and preferences that are being shared in social channels. of success.” “To obtain a holistic view of the customer, companies need to do finer-grained customer —Hamit Hamutcu, segmentation down to a segment of one,” IBM’s Advani says. This includes demographic partner, Peppers Rogers Group and transactional information about individual customers, but it goes much further than this, according to Advani. To properly understand customer needs, preferences, and motivations, companies also must analyze customer behaviors across channels. Additionally, the analysis within each channel should be multidimensional. For example, what behaviors are customers exhibiting on a company’s website? What did they do during their last visit? How long did they stay? When did they leave and why? Of course, companies sometimes find themselves missing vital information about customers that’s needed to gain a complete view. This can include critical demographic information like the ages and genders of children in a household or a recent change in earning status for particular customers. By using customer analytics against existing customer information, decision-makers can identify customer information gaps and then conduct very targeted and concise surveys or prompt contact center agents to ask customers specific questions to fill in the blanks, says Erick Brethenoux, director, business analytics and decision management strategy, IBM. Blending structured and unstructured customer data, including new information uncovered by analyses of information gaps, provides decision-makers with incredibly rich data about their customers. Business leaders who have a clearer picture of each customer are better equipped to develop more accurate propensity models and execute strategies that have a much higher likelihood of success, Peppers Rogers Group’s Hamutcu says. A single customer view Gaining a complete view of customers includes being able to blend, analyze, and act on cus- tomer information that is sometimes siloed in separate business divisions and functional areas. Siloed information had been a challenge for Suncorp-Metway Ltd., a diversified financial ser- vices company with operations in Australia and New Zealand. Mergers and acquisitions over the past decade increased its customer base by 200 percent.18 But this decade-long period of growth also led to 23 different source systems for customer data, ©2012 Peppers Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 5
  • 6. making it difficult for it to gain a single view of customers. Suncorp-Metway executives wanted a single, integrated view of its customers to ensure that its marketing campaigns didn’t result in internal conflict between its brands or in a duplication of effort, both of which would have a negative effect on the company’s bottom line. By creating a master data hub supported by IBM business intelligence, the company reduced 23 million source records into 9 million unique accounts that contain all the data available for each customer in one place. This single view enabled Suncorp-Metway to gain a deeper under- “To obtain a holistic view standing of each customer’s total value across multiple products. Suncorp-Metway executives of the customer, companies now make more informed decisions about which products to promote to what customers. need to do finer-grained Suncorp-Metway’s efforts have generated multiple business benefits. Using customer ana- customer segmentation lytics helped the company to reduce its direct mail and related operating costs by eliminating down to a segment of one.” duplicate mailings to the same households and eliminating redundant systems. In addition, the —Deepak Advani, vice president, business new master data hub helped the company save roughly USD 10 million annually on integra- analytics products and tion and associated costs. Further, because the company has a richer view of each customer, solutions, IBM Suncorp-Metway has been able to significantly increase market share in key product areas with- out having to increase its marketing spend. “The more information you can collect about your customers, the more accurate your analytic models will be,” Advani says. For some business leaders, having extensive customer data can be overwhelming. Although many decision-makers express growing interest in the use of “Big Data” (or large sets of both structured and unstructured customer data), some feel intimidated by two factors: the sheer volume of data coming into the organizations and how to determine which data are relevant. By using statistical algorithms, executives can determine what data is and isn’t relevant, thus reducing the pool of potential data sources to the most germane information, says IBM’s Brethenoux. Figure 2: Creating a Complete Customer View Companies that capture, analyze, and then act on a full set of customers’ interactions, including those from social, the contact center, transactions, and online, outpace their competitors in customer reten- tion, customer satisfaction, and customer value, according to a recent study by Aberdeen Group.19 360-Degree View Offers Competitive Advantage to Best-in-Class Firms 100% 80% ■ Best in Class 60% ■ Industry Average ■ Laggards 40% 20% 0% -20% Customer Customer % of time spent Increase in net retention satisfaction searching for data client value YOY Source: Aberdeen Group, “Creating a Complete Customer View: Best Practices in Master Data Management,” May 2011 ©2012 Peppers Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 6
  • 7. Pinpointing Profitable Customers As decision-makers become more experienced using customer analytics, they uncover customer insights and ways of applying analytics that they previously hadn’t considered. These include fresh approaches to devising relevant, compelling offers for customers and to determining the most effective approach for delivering those offers and communicating with customers based on their behaviors and stated or inferred channel preferences. Business leaders can also use customer analytics to refine their cross- and upsell execution. For example, they can more accurately determine what products customers have purchased and the next logical product to offer a customer based on transaction history, recent web pages visited, and products purchased by customers with similar traits. Additionally, decision-makers can draw from a blend of structured and unstructured customer data to shape personalized sales, marketing, and customer support strategies that truly resonate “Companies can use a blend of transaction, with targeted customers. For instance, when a customer calls a contact center, a company can use demographic, life stage, speech and predictive analytics against the information in real time—as well as a customer’s histori- and other customer data cal information with the company—to determine the likelihood for that customer to defect, and can to gain deeper insights then proactively extend a relevant offer or response intended to retain her. into how much value a customer is generating for them today and what Analyzing customer activity their potential future Providing customers with personalized and relevant communications can help foster customer loy- value may be.” alty while increasing customer value in two ways. First, customers who feel they’re understood —Hamit Hamutcu, partner, Peppers and appreciated by a company are more willing to continue doing business with that organization, Rogers Group Peppers Rogers Group’s Hamutcu says. In addition, engaged customers are also more likely to share the positive experiences they’ve had with a company with friends and associates, thus helping to generate incremental revenue. First Tennessee Bank had done an effective job of collecting data. And yet, amid this abundance of data, it had a scarcity of cohesive, actionable marketing insights.20 Bank officials determined that they needed a better way to analyze the large volumes of customer data the bank gathers and to use that information more effectively for decision making. The bank had built a customer data warehouse and gathered information from sources like online banking records, ATMs, and call cen- ter interactions. Nonetheless, the bank still had trouble predicting customers’ future behaviors and making decisions because it lacked effective techniques and tools for analyzing the information. One area where the bank saw room for improvement was in its marketing department’s com- munications. Each month the bank sent out a mailing designed to get customers to purchase a bank product they weren’t using, such as a checking account or a CD. The campaigns were relatively suc- cessful, even though the bank was working with limited data sets and without the use of automated statistical tools. But marketing managers believed the campaigns would have higher success rates if the mailings targeted a broader, more automated analysis of the bank’s customers that included customer preferences, behaviors, and transactional histories. Consequently, First Tennessee Bank began using IBM predictive analytics solutions with its cus- tomer data sources and historical data on the bank’s marketing campaigns. The marketing team experimented with different models to hone their data modeling skills, with the goal of cross-selling more of the bank’s products to customers. By using IBM customer analytics solutions to analyze data related to customer activity and his- torical marketing campaigns, the bank has reduced its marketing costs, increased net income, and improved marketing staff productivity. For instance, by analyzing more customer data points, such as ATM habits, transaction volumes, and call center interactions, and matching this information with cross-sell opportunities for checking accounts, savings accounts, CDs, and home equity loans, the bank’s marketing department has increased the conversion rate of its marketing mailings by more ©2012 Peppers Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 7
  • 8. than 3 percent. Additionally, because the bank’s marketers are armed with greater insights about its customers, they can send better-targeted, more specific offers. As a result, the bank has slashed its printing, materials, and postage costs by 20 percent. In addition, the marketing team reduced the amount of time spent on marketing campaigns by 8 percent. Overall, the bank’s use of IBM predictive analytics has delivered a whopping 642 percent ROI, based on an analysis conducted by Nucleus Research. Compelling financial returns like these are a key reason why a growing number of companies like First Tennessee Bank are investing First Tennessee Bank’s in the use of customer analytics. use of predictive ana- Savvy companies use a blend of transactional, demographic, life stage, and other customer lytics has delivered a whopping 642 percent data to develop a clearer picture of the real value that a customer is generating for them today ROI, according to and what their potential future value is expected to be, Peppers Rogers Group’s Hamutcu Nucleus Research. says. This includes using customer data and analytics to determine which customers are worth keeping and which ones are a cost-drag on the enterprise. Business leaders can leverage these insights to help them develop relevant offers and to design more customized channel experiences for high-value customers. For instance, under- standing how most valuable or most growable customers use a company’s website and why they behave the way in which they do (e.g., pages visited, why they leave) during these inter- actions can help decision-makers to determine the types of functionality and capabilities that could further improve customer experiences. Such efforts can help companies to engage these customers more effectively and increase their loyalty and lifetime value, IBM’s Advani says. Additionally, insights about customer value and channel preferences and behaviors can also help decision-makers develop strategies for attracting and guiding different customer segments to specific channels based on that insight. Lower-value customers who call the contact center to use the IVR for self-service, for example, may be directed to the website for a more comprehen- sive self-service experience that also costs the company less. Figure 3: Improving Business Performance A recent Accenture survey of 800 senior executives at blue-chip companies around the world found that customer analytics have deliv- ered significant business benefits, including substantial marketing campaign performance ROI and improvements in customer revenue.21 ■ % saying very beneficial Speed/level of customer activity 26% Speed of customer return 23% Sales team management 27% Individual customer revenue 21% Determining reasons for losing customer 28% Customer service performance 29% Marketing campaign performance/ROI 25% Customer activity by channel 32% Source: Accenture Customer Analytics Survey, May 2011 ©2012 Peppers Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 8
  • 9. Companies can also benefit from using customer analytics to provide offers or perform proactive outreach that demonstrates that the company is looking out for customers’ best interests. This could take the form of a reminder, for example, that a product warranty is about to expire or that there may be a less-expensive service plan that’s better suited for them. Although such actions by a company may temporarily impact short-term revenues, the cus- tomer trust that these actions engender will likely lead customers to buy more from the company in the future and to recommend that company to others, thus generating greater long-term cus- tomer value, Hamutcu says. A large retailer IBM works with has used predictive analytics to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its email marketing campaigns. The retailer has built propensity models to iden- tify the right set of customers for a particular offer and focus its email campaigns on a narrower “Customer analytics can set of customers that have a higher propensity to buy. These efforts enabled the retailer to guide business leaders to improve the performance of its email marketing campaigns, increase the productivity of its make faster, smarter, more effective decisions.” email marketing team, and drive higher conversion rates. Meanwhile, the retailer’s customers —Erick Brethenoux, are receiving more relevant offers that lead them to feel that the company truly understands director, business analytics their needs and preferences, resulting in a more satisfied and loyal customer base. and decision management strategy, IBM Conclusion The amount of customer data now available through an array of channels and sources is stag- gering. According to Gartner, the world now generates as much information every two days as it did from the dawn of civilization to the year 2003. Companies need to gather and act on the wide range of customer data available to them. Customer analytics can guide business leaders to make faster, smarter, more effective decisions around specific customer requirements and budding market trends, IBM’s Brethenoux says. These decision-making capabilities include being able to forecast the amount of investment that a company should make in a particular customer or group of customers who have similar traits, based on the amount of potential value those customers are expected to yield in the future. Companies’ use of customer analytics often involves tackling a particular business opportu- nity from a reverse-workflow approach. Business leaders can start by identifying the outcome that a business unit is attempting to achieve and by assessing the organization’s capabilities for achieving that outcome. For example, leaders looking to reduce customer churn by 10 percent can use customer analytics to help identify primary churn triggers and the steps that can be taken to address those issues. As part of these efforts, decision-makers also must determine the key inhibitors (e.g., siloed data) that must be removed before the organization can successfully embark on its customer analytics journey. Analytics efforts need to be woven into the everyday operations of a business. When cus- tomer analytics are managed as a stand-alone function, the value delivered to the business is often much more limited, because it’s likely that the organization’s culture isn’t analytically driven and doesn’t foster an environment of continuous learning and improvement. However, companies that are able to work through obstacles like data silos learn from their use of cus- tomer analytics, and then apply best practices going forward have a far greater likelihood of achieving consistent success. An analytically driven organization takes the time to understand individual customers and uses that information to tailor offers to them. This kind of personalization is critical for compa- nies looking to differentiate themselves with customers. “You have to use the information that’s available to make the customer’s experience special,” IBM’s Advani says, “because if you don’t, your competitors will.” n ©2012 Peppers Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 9
  • 10. About IBM Business Analytics IBM Business Analytics software delivers actionable insights decision-makers need to achieve better business performance. IBM offers a comprehensive, unified portfolio of business intel- ligence, predictive and advanced analytics, financial performance and strategy management, governance, risk and compliance, and analytic applications. With IBM software, companies can spot trends, patterns ,and anomalies, compare “what if” scenarios, predict potential threats and opportunities, identify and manage key business risks, and plan, budget, and forecast resources. With these deep analytic capabilities our customers around the world can better understand, anticipate, and shape business outcomes. For more information please visit www.ibm.com/business-analytics About Peppers Rogers Group Peppers Rogers Group is dedicated to helping its clients improve business performance by acquiring, retaining, and growing profitable customers. As products become commodities and glo- balization picks up speed, customers have become the scarcest resource in business. They hold the keys to higher profit today and stronger enterprise value tomorrow. We help clients achieve these goals by building the right relationships with the right customers over the right channels. We earn our keep by solving the business problems of our clients. By delivering a superior 1to1 Strategy, we remove the operational and organizational barriers that stand in the way of profitable customer relationships. We show clients where to focus customer-facing resources to improve the performance of their marketing, sales, and service initiatives. For more information please visit www.peppersandrogersgroup.com About 1to1 Media 1to1® Media is dedicated to helping organizations across the globe realize the greatest value from their customer base. We provide resources that help senior executives to drive change and make customer-based initiatives the centerpiece of their growth strategy. 1to1 Media’s custom publications explore the best practices, trends, and developments from companies that are using customer initiatives to drive bottom-line impact. Backed by Peppers Rogers Group, the globally recognized leader in customer strategy and relationship marketing, 1to1 Media combines thought leadership, field experience, and editorial expertise to deliver the content needed by our audience of more than 130,000 decision-makers. For more information please visit www.1to1media.com ©2012 Peppers Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 10
  • 11. Endnotes 1 Friedman, Thomas L. (2012, January 24). Average is Over, The New York Times. 2 L acki, Thomas, Ph.D. (2010). Understanding Customer Experience in Retail Banking, Peppers Rogers Group, EFMA. 3 Peppers, Don (2010). Capitalizing on Customer Analytics, 1to1 In Action Series. 4 Arnott, Grant (2011, May 16). Leveraging return-on-customeróDon Peppers, PowerMarketer. 5 S hayon, Sheila (2012, February 2). Accenture: Boost Loyalty by Avoiding Blind Spots, brandchannel. 6 K aur, Priya (2012, March 12). Understanding Real Value of Your Customers Over Their Lifecycle (CLV), crmnext. 7 K ucera, Trip; White, David (2012, February 1). Divide and Conquer: Using Predictive Analytics to Segment, Target and Optimize Marketing, Aberdeen Group. 8 Hamutcu, Hamit (2011, October 10). The C-Level Executiveís Greatest Asset: Information, Customer Strategist. 9 Hoffman, Tom (2011, December 28). Hoffman’s Hot Seat: Connecting Predictive Analytics to Social Media, 1to1 Media. 10 Hoffman, Tom (2011, April 18). Hoffman’s Hot Seat: The Evolution of Customer Analytics, 1to1 Media. 11 IBM (2011, November). BBVA seamlessly monitors and improves its online reputation. 12 Hamutcu, Hamit (2011, September 14). Customer Valuation is a Crucial Step for Businesses, Peppers Rogers Group. 13 Spoken Communications (2010, October 19). Cost of acquiring a new customer: 6 to 7 times more than keeping existing. 14 IBM Institute for Business Value (2012). Customer analytics pay off. 15 IBM (2011, October). From Stretched to Strengthened: Insights from the IBM Global CMO Study. 16 Clark, Cynthia (2012, February 20). 6 Steps to Linking Data for Better Customer Insight, 1to1 Magazine. 17 King, Rachel (2012, February 14). IBM VP: Big data, analytics giving way to ‘social economy,’ ZDNet. 18 IBM (2011, March). Case study: Suncorp-Metway Ltd. 19 Ostrow, Peter (2011, May 25). Creating a Complete Customer View: Best Practices in Master Data Management, Aberdeen Group. 20 IBM (2011, March 25). IBM Business Analytics: First Tennessee Bank, Nucleus Research. 21 Accenture (2011, May). Accenture Customer Analytics Survey. ©2012 Peppers Rogers Group. All rights protected and reserved. 11