What's new for 2014
Differentiating customer experience should become a
major plank to drive revenue growth in 2014. This may
require fresh approaches through improved processes,
better technologies, and deeper customer insights, all
of which could benefit immensely from more rigorous
customer data management.
By investing in data and analytics across the banking
value chain – from customer onboarding to complaint
resolution – banks can gain unique new insights about
their customers and products. These investments can
enable banks to better understand their customer needs,
refine customer segmentation approaches, design more
compelling value propositions, and identify impactful
differentiation strategies, such as service enhancements
and other next-best actions. All of these, in turn, will help
banks improve their cross selling and drive revenue growth.
Building a differentiated customer experience based
on improved customer insights is not a departure from
existing approaches – in fact, it is meant to improve most
banks’ current efforts. Jeff Wordham, principal with Doblin,
Deloitte Consulting LLP’s innovation unit, explained, “To
excel, banks have to spend more time understanding the
unmet needs and motivations of customers. This requires
the use of more nontraditional approaches to generating
insights, including ethnographic research, mining social
media, and advanced data analytics.”