3. Background in developing Customer Insight teams
and driving value from insights (‘client side’)
❖ Created & lead customer insight teams for all the major
insurance brands, products and channels used by Lloyds Banking
Group over 13 years
❖ Added over £11m incremental profit annually
❖ Worked with FCA on Behavioural Economics in comms testing
❖ Developed ‘in house’ capability up to a team of 44
❖ Mentored next generation of leaders
❖ Trains & marks for Institute of Direct & Digital Marketing
❖ Qualified Executive Coach with ILM (Level 7)
4. Helping insight leaders maximise value
“Helping businesses make money from customer insight”
Laughlin Consultancy helps companies maximise sustainable value from their
customer insight, for example by growing their bottom line, improving customer
retention and demonstrating to their regulator that they treat customers fairly.
5. Laughlin Consultancy clients have benefitted from
our training, consultancy & coaching services
❖ Helping our clients maximise the value of their customer insight
❖ Our services are bespoke to clients, but include:
❖ “Health Check” diagnostic of your Customer Insight capability
❖ Customer Insight Strategy development
❖ Conduct Risk & Customer Insight training
❖ Consultancy Skills training for analysts
❖ Career paths for customer insight roles
❖ Leadership coaching
6. Relevancy trumps Creative:
The critical role of Targeting in Marketing Effectiveness
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7. Customer Insight is a key component
for implementing Customer Centricity successfully
❖ In largest study of its kind, “Insights 2020” talked to over 330 leaders
& 10,000 practitioners across 60 markets.
❖ Analysed commercial performance & digital behaviour.
❖ Confirmed that Customer Centric companies out-performed others
across a range of financial metrics (profit, cross-sell, retention etc).
❖ What distinguished the best performers?
1. Purpose-led, data-driven, consistent customer experiences (across all channels & through
whole customer journey)
2. Embedded ‘customer obsession’ in culture (decision making, performance management &
embracing experimentation)
3. Customer Insight team is a proactive, equal, business partner slide 7
25. Storytelling
❖ People are engaged by stories
❖ Psychological studies show better attention &
recall (esp. feelings)
❖ Common templates:
❖ “Just imagine, if…”
❖ “Wow! I’m going to tell… about this”
❖ The Burning Platform
26. Tufte’s rules for Data Visualisation
❖ Graphical integrity
❖ Data-Ink
❖ Chart Junk
❖ Data Density
❖ Small Multiples
31. It’s all about taking Action
❖ Ensuring request is for action
❖ Designing analysis for action
❖ Including recommended actions
❖ Progress updates on action
❖ Measure effect of actions