5 Benefits of Customer
Decision Management
James Taylor
CEO, Decision Management Solutions
Where are customer
decisions made?
Everywhere…
James Taylor
CEO of Decision Management Solutions
We work with clients to improve their
business by applying analytic technology
to automate and improve decisions
… especially customer decisions

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Agenda
More Accurate
More Real-time
Customer Decision
Management

More Agile
More Consistent

More Scalable
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Customer Decision
Management
From presenting
data for analysis
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…

to making decisions
with analytics
Strategic
Decisions
Tactical
Decisions

Operational
Decisions

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3 stages to better operational decisions
Decision Discovery
Decision Services
Decision Analysis
More Accurate
1:1 Marketing
Next Best Action
Cross-channel Marketing

Markets of 1
Personalization

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Micro Decisions

Macro Impact
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Up The Analytics Spectrum
Predictive
Analytics

Data
Mining
Business
Intelligence

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More Real Time
Faster decisions
Event

Decision
latency

Action

Higher Value
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Value
Expert
Decisions
Manual
Decisions
Automated
Decisions

Complexity
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Business
Rules

Predictive
Analytics
External Data

Big Data
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More Consistent
Decision

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The Evolution Of A Retention Offer
Automate
Decision
Policies, best
practices

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Segment
customers
Predict
value, opport
unity
Test, learn, op
timize
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More Agile
Decisions Are High Change Components
Keep making compliant decisions
Track eligibility requirements

Competitive discount
Change risk assessment
Keep the right deal terms
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Conventional Approach

Decision Management

Other Systems

CRM
System

Frequent code changes

Programmers

CRM
System

Decision
Service

Other Systems

Infrequent code changes

Programmers
Frequent policy changes

Policy Changes

Business users

Business users

Smart (Enough) Systems, Prentice Hall June 2007. Fig 2.11

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Agile, Industrial Analytics

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Drive Action with Analytics
Operational
Systems

Decision

Analytic
Systems
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Keeping Costs Down With
Scalable Solutions
Decision Management Systems Scale

Staffing ratios broken

Manuals and reports replaced by
recommendations and decisions

Avoiding the “press 0” problem
Always on, powerful self-service
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Questions?
Customer Decision Management
Better Results
• Existing customers are better value
• Boost “share of wallet”

More Loyal Customers
• Customers treated like a number eventually defect
• Interaction quality is as important as product quality

Competitive Differentiation
• Only you have your customers’ data
• No-one can treat your customers the way you can
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Begin with the Decision in Mind
From Decision To
Data…

Data
Analytic
Insight

Decision

…not the other way
around
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Customer Decision Management - 5 Benefits

Editor's Notes

  • #3 From the c-suite Big Data is the latest shiny object – everyone should have oneBut its also costly, or potentially costlyAnd perceived as a blue sky initiative – something for the (distant) future
  • #4 What if you were able to use Big Data to drive Improved customer service and marketing in your call centerLower fraud across the boardBetter managed risk for your loan officers
  • #6 I am going to introduce customer decision management and show how you can make more accurate, more real-time, more agile and consistent customer treatment decisions and do all this at scale
  • #8 CDM is fundamentally about moving from presenting data for analysis
  • #9 To making decisions with analytics
  • #10 And not just any decisionsThink about the decisions your organization makes:Strategic DecisionsFew in number, large impactShould we acquire this company or exit this market?Tactical DecisionsManagement and control, moderate impactShould we re-organize, change our risk management approach?Operational DecisionsDay-to-day decisions that affect one transaction or customerNext Best offer? How risky is this loan? Is this claim fraudulent?It is operational decisions that are our focus
  • #11 And they matter because these decisions are where, how, you focus on your customers
  • #13 These little decisions are everywhereWhat offer should we make when this person uses the ATM?Is this credit card fraudulent?How should this loan office treat this applicant?What IVR menus should be played and how should this call be routedAnd on and on….These decisions matter
  • #14 CDM uses a three step processDecision DiscoveryIdentify the decisions that are most important to your operational successDecision ServicesDesign and build decision management systems to automate these decisionsDecision AnalysisCreate a “closed loop” between operations and analytics to measure results and drive improvement
  • #15 First how do we target our customers more accurately
  • #16 All ways to say that we must make consistent, accurate, customer-centric micro decisions about what to do next
  • #21 The right time is increasingly in real-time but people are NOT real time
  • #23 We must shift from thinking about how to get people to make better decisionsTo how to get computers to make better decisions
  • #25 These decision management systems support our existing platformsProviding decision making services to help these systems, and the users of these systems, make better decisionsUsing both explicit business rules and predictive analytics to make sure these decisions are accurate, compliant and analytically preciseAnd this is where the decision analysis piece comes in as we can collect all the operational data from those systems, reflecting how well our decision-making worked out for us, and feed it back into our big data infrastructureWhere, combined with new external big data sources, it drives improved rules and better predictive analytics, closing the loop for continuous improvement.
  • #26 Telenor Pakistan story
  • #29 It is often helpful to walk through one example here. Let’s take some interaction with a customer – say making a retention offer – and see how it might work.Initially we have different channels and our approach to retention is probably different in each. The first step, then, is to take control of the decision so we can make it consistently across channels. We should also use rules to describe it so that the decision can be automated correctly and managed by business staff, not IT. However not all customers are the same so we should analyze them and segment them so we can retain them differently depending on what is going to work. Segmenting based only on the data we have is interesting but it would be more useful if we could also use predictions as to their risk of leaving, lifetime value of them etc as part of our decision. Back to the data, then, to build predictive insights. Applying adaptive control to continually improve the outcomes and we end up with an optimized decision.As we work our way through the class we will revisit this and discuss.
  • #32 Decisions are high change thoughRegulations change, so you have to change to stay compliantPolicies change, so eligibility has toCompetitors change so discounts have toMarkets and consumer behavior change, so risk assessment has toLoyalty shifts so deal terms have to
  • #35 And analytics needs to be more agile tooEach model is hand-crafted - Expertise is applied in an automated contextScripts and programming are primary - Graphical analytic tools are primaryModels are one-time efforts - Models are continuously refreshed and updatedProjects are done when the model is done - Projects are done when the business is changed
  • #36 In particular CDM makes sure that our analytics actually have an impact quickly, focusing on rapidly deploying analytics to drive operational change
  • #41 If we start by understanding our decisions we can focus on the data that will improve those decisions and so avoid the “integrate everything” problem