How to Tackle Digital Transformation – Top Articles in March

How to Tackle Digital Transformation – Top Articles in March

Last month, we found a number of excellent articles and blog posts covering how some of the world’s largest companies are tackling digital transformation. After reading about a number of exemplary digitally transforming companies, one thing is clear – strategy and a committed team are key to digital transformation success! In the past year, “digital transformation” has become a clear necessity for companies even though the phrase itself can mean different things to different organizations and teams.  We thought these articles were helpful and thought provoking for anyone in the midst of a digital transformation impacting the customer experience and IT and we hope you find them helpful too.

1. McDonalds goes for a complete overhaul to stay digitally relevant.

McDonalds’ CMO, Deborah Wahl, reflects on the company’s ongoing digital transformation at the Adobe Summit 2016. From the early adoption of mobile payments to partnering with Ford to evolve the drive through experience, McDonalds’ stays focused on solving real customer needs while advancing digitally. We really enjoyed this article on Marketing Interactive because it covered past, present, and future realities of the digital customer experience while reminding us not to get distracted in the buzz of digital transformation, but to remember the original intent behind these initiatives – to make your customers happy!

2. How GE handles digital transformation – anticipating the necessities of the future

While not all of us may have crystal balls lying around to predict the future, GE has strategized and executed on its transformations by “looking out 15 years or more and asking simple questions to gauge what their core business must look like to remain competitive.” After witnessing the rapid transformation of media at NBC, GE learned to look beyond the immediate future and agree on what the long term future would look like, then working backwards to understand what the priorities and projects should be now. From industrial revolutions to digital transformations, GE is an excellent example to take inspiration from and Maxwell Wessel’s post to Medium is a thoughtful read.

3. Adapting the use of BI to elevate the security customer experience

A nice article by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff that takes a look at Protection 1, a residential and business security company, as an example of an organization that used digital transformation initiatives to improve their customer experience. By developing an in-house, business intelligence solution that called upon all of Protection 1’s databases, Protection 1 strengthened their customer service team by getting actionable data into their hands more quickly. We particularly enjoyed this example of success because we can relate to developing business intelligence solutions that provide a unified view of customer data. We’ve actually specialized in exactly this for a number of telcos and have, developed our own SmartView module that accomplishes exactly this. But enough about us, Schiff’s article also touches on how Protection 1 empowers customers with transparency and new self service portals while also optimizing the call center.

4. How Aviva is transforming the digital customer experience in insurance

Beyond shifting its marketing strategy from product-based—insurance for your car, your home, your life—to propositions tailored to life stages and life events, Aviva is tackling a global digital transformation to stay relevant with their customers and ready for the future. For the entire company, Aviva is building a common digital platform from the API layer up. Down the road, the different countries of Aviva offices can choose to add on innovations to this platform as they’ll best suit the customers in their region. In addition to these major technology efforts, Aviva is also focused on adapting the company culture to coincide with its digital transformation.

5. McKinsey says Telcos focused on these 5 areas of IT boast a profit margin of 43% vs 21% for those that don’t

And what are those 5 areas?

  1. Establishing robust customer analytics capabilities
  2. Digitizing the order management process
  3. Digitizing the customer relationship management process
  4. Streamlining the application landscape
  5. Standardizing and automating the IT infrastructure

McKinsey recently benchmarked 80 telecommunications companies and found a correlation between the companies that all focused on the 5 IT areas listed above and an increased profit margin as compared to companies that had not accomplished the 5 IT initiatives. A great read because it covers the why and how to execute on these core projects.

Are you working on a digital transformation?

We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter or drop us a line some time if you’d like to have a creative discussion on overcoming any of your digital transformation challenges.

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January 26th & 27th • Customer Experience Management in Telcos – Global Summit

We’re proud to sponsor IQPC’s Customer Experience Management in Telecoms Global Summit in London on January 26th & 27th, 2016! This summit brings together a number of customer experience leaders, providing a valuable opportunity to share knowledge, experiences, and ideas for the future.

Stop by to discuss Customer Experience Management strategies

Look for us in the Beatrice Suite of the Park Plaza Victoria! Eric and Glenn will be at our sponsor stand to discuss digital transformations, managing omnichannel customer interactions, personalized customer service in the digital sphere, innovative customer touch points with personalized explainer videos, and more!

Ask us about Simplifying the Digital Customer Experience

Eric & Glenn will also be leading an interactive Breakfast Briefing on the morning of January 27th to 15 Global Communications Service Providers. The Breakfast Briefing will focus on how to simplify the digital customer experience in telcos.

Eric & Glenn posted up at our sponsor stand at the CEM in Telcos Global Summit event

In their interactive session, Eric and Glenn will guide delegates through ready-to-implement strategies that leverage the customer bill in order to improve digital customer self-care and the user experience.  With more simplified tariffs and bundled services, the concept of the “bill” is changing.  Coupled with the drive to digitalization, the challenge is to differentiate in both customer service and customer experience. This interactive problem-based session will address this key customer touch-point through the digital channels.

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Summer Webinar Series

We are delighted to announce a series of Webinars based on improving your Online Customer Engagement and Self Service – our Summer Series.

We’ll be sharing the latest innovations, updates, and best practices regarding customer experience management, customer portals, and online billing. Join one or join them all depending on your online engagement priorities. These webinars are free. We hope you’ll join us!

 

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The Persona Scripting Language

The Persona Scripting Language

Where high level business objectives and your coding backbone meet.

Have you ever found that your project managers and business-minded team members struggle to get on the same page with your IT department and developers? Have you ever felt that these teams were using the same words but the definitions of those words didn’t line up?

With the complex task of building a modern, intuitive, easy to use customer portal, a wealth of challenges already exist. Adding on the challenge of miscommunication leaves room for inefficiencies such as exceeding budget, wasting time, and building frustration. That’s where Sorriso’s Persona Scripting Language comes in.

Make the most of your use cases

In order to develop software or build a customer billing portal, your project managers and IT department must already work together to develop use cases and outline a vision for the future. Use case language is the inspiration for Sorriso’s new Persona Scripting Language. This means you can ensure your teams stay on the same page as you create, adapt, and grow your customer billing portal.

What is the new Persona Scripting Language?

Sorriso’s Persona Scripting Language makes Sorriso Self Care applications flexible and easy to change. Inspired by the UML descriptions made popular by Alistair Cockburn, the Persona Scripting Language is fast and easy to use. Translate your use case into the Persona Scripting Language with ease because they’ve been designed to align. Whether you’re a business minded or technically savvy professional, you can write in the Persona Scripting Language to modify and design your customer billing portal.

How do you use it?

The Sorriso Self Care platform implements a Model/View/Controller (MVC) architecture that utilizes the Persona Scripting Language in two ways:

1. To control the front end user experience (UX)

Design an individual page module, a full page, or a multi-web page interaction and flow.

UX use cases describe:

  • screen composition
  • field and form validation
  • data transformations
  • user identity, and
  • back end connectivity

2. To create back end business objects

Take control of your information architecture. With the Persona Scripting Language you can create back end business objects that access customer and account information. This means you can transform raw system data into secure, application specific transactions and responses for your customers to self serve.

Why you’ll love the new Persona Scripting Language

Generate, edit, and validate code that your project managers can read. Empower the members of your team to push forward with progress and effectively communicate around your data-backed customer experience projects.

The Persona Scripting Language is embedded in Eclipse as a plug-in, you can create and test customer portal modules right inside Eclipse.

Want to learn more about developing your customer portals with use case methodologies?

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Self Care vs. Self Service – What’s the Difference?

Why Do We Like to Say “Self Care”?

Because when we think of “self service”, we think of this:

 

An Automat.

Automats were the first vending machines. Born in the 1900s, automats originally served simple hot meals to customers. They eliminated the need for a cashier and offered a non-intrusive browsing experience. The reason why we, here at Sorriso, wanted to steer away from the automat experience is because it connotes “no service”.
While we know today’s customers prefer to enjoy a non-intrusive browsing experience much like the automat provided, we also know that modern technology makes it possible for the casual browsing experience to also be an engaging and intuitive one. We want our clients’ customers to know how much their companies care about them.
Customers today know a company cares about them when they feel they’ve been provided a personalized and thoughtful experience. And that’s what we help companies do: provide their customers with a personalized and thoughtful digital experience.

 

Want to Learn More About Self Service Software?

 

to explore the world of self service software

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