This document discusses how banking and retail organizations can leverage customer data and analytics to improve customer retention, cross-selling, and targeting of offers. It notes that both industries can use predictive modeling approaches like next best offer analysis on transaction and customer data to better understand customer needs and behavior over their lifetime with the organization. Specifically, the document discusses how customer spending, product holdings, and attrition rates can be analyzed across time periods to identify opportunities to keep customers engaged at different life stages.