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Driving intelligent growth with Customer Value Maximization

How banks should go beyond CRM

EMEA Banking Practice Driving intelligent growth with Customer Value Maximization

Driving intelligent growth with Customer Value Maximization

How banks should go beyond CRM
Following the intense uncertainty ushered in by the recent financial crisis, many bankers are confronting huge future ambiguity about markets, risk, and demand. The questions that will shape the future of banking appear, in many regions of the world, to hinge around macroeconomics and regulation. A large part of the new normal to which the banks are returning is the dilemma of how to deliver further growth when demand appears to be stagnant or even declining. Is there any way to fuel revenues and profits despite the aftermath of the downturn? There are certainly better ways in the retail market segment at least than focusing on new client acquisition, where economics show that acquisition costs often exceed more than one years client profitability. To borrow a catchphrase: the answer lies within. Despite the vagaries of external circumstances, banks still have vast largely untapped potential at their fingertips: their existing customer base. Banks can enhance their revenues while maximizing the value of this base using next-generation one-to-one banking similar to the customer lifecycle management approach now being applied by leading telcos. In-depth analysis of each customers profile and preferences using state-of-the-art data mining techniques an approach we have termed Customer Value Maximization (CVM) can yield very positive results surprisingly fast. Banks have seen with this methodology a shift from fewer than two products per client to over six. Others have been able to increase profitability in their retail branch network by some 20 percent by combining tailormade pricing and cross-selling initiatives. CVM does, however, require a fundamental shift in frontline mindset and capabilities. This article begins by examining the differences between banks traditional marketing approaches and CVM, then looks at the various stages in the CVM journey, and closes with a new one-stop shop solution for ramping up the process swiftly.

The benefits of using CVM

CVM is a proven methodology that goes far beyond basic CRM capabilities, allowing retail banks to identify and capture full potential from their existing customers, with immediate impact on their bottomline (Exhibit 1). A well-devised CVM program will make highly differentiated offers with varying product attributes to customer microsegments, rather than broadcasting the same product-based offering to all customers. Instead of static, backward-oriented segmentation, leading-edge techniques use predictive, self-adjusting models to define the best next offer for each customer. This in-depth analysis based on multiterabyte data can identify future potential by customer far more valuable than a pure focus on current customer revenues. This data, if skillfully applied, can yield over 100 microtargeted campaigns a year with hit rates of 20 percent and above, compared to the usual handful of broadly targeted campaigns with rates of only 3 to 5 percent. Banks that are able to capture and sustain CVM potential achieve best-in-class performance, incorporating lifetime value as a key indicator for customer targeting when prioritizing and identifying opportunities across all customer segments and levers. Their targeted campaigns use value-based segmentation and propensity models, and implement highly coherent operating models across channels and functions. This approach is being applied within banks across widespread geographies. Canadian and Spanish banks are among the most advanced, consistently achieving a step change in the effectiveness of their commercial actions, allowing them to capture initial profit growth of at least 10 to 15 percent.

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Banks' profits can be fueled in a downturn by maximizing the value of their customer base
CVM is a proven methodology ... Understand customer base: identify the most profitable customers as well as the "revenue chains"; segment your commercial initiatives Go after opportunities along all value levers (acquisition, crossselling, retention), especially beyond the obvious ones (e.g., volume churn) Increase the ROI of commercial initiatives and increase their effectiveness
Profit New Win- Acti- Upyear 1 cus- back vation sell tomers Cross- Re- Prod- Cus- Profit sell newal uct tomer year 2 churn churn

that helps identify and capture the full potential of a bank's customer base Value creation along value drivers
3 100 3 2 5

30

30
119 11

17

Typical impact is 10 to 15% on profits (6 to 8% on revenues), with a significant share captured in 4 to 6 months, thus self-funding the program

Exhibit 1

Capital One reaping the rewards of full-fledged CVM Capital One is one of the best-practice examples in the industry. Its co-founders call it an information-based marketing company, not a credit card issuer. The company has been following this philosophy for many years, using individual customer value as a key indicator for its commercial initiatives. It uses customer value in its segmentation process, for example, as well as its behavioral indicators, offering open data access to its front line with a uniform and holistic view of its customer data. Capital One was also one of the first players in the industry to conduct offer prioritization based on expected increase in customer value (across value drivers), using propensity models for cross-selling to maximize the value of customers it had acquired. It also analyzes client purchase patterns and dates to infer its risk and propensity to buy specific products. As a result, it is able to target tailored customer offers (over 3,000 credit card variations) to over 100,000 segments. It also conducts highly flexible test-and-learn campaigns at a rate of more than 65,000 tests a year. These efforts are given top-priority support by the organization via elements such as a unique relational database management system, specific customer acquisition targets for employees at all levels, and an extra bonus to staff who sell higher-yielding products.

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CVM in three steps

For effective CVM, it is vital that a bank first understands its customer base: it needs to identify its most profitable customers as well as its value drains, segmenting its commercial initiatives accordingly. It should pursue defined opportunities along all value levers acquisition, cross-selling, and retention with a focus beyond the obvious, as will become clear in the examples below. Finally, it needs to apply rigorous execution. The heightened effectiveness of this microcampaigning and the ensuing commercial initiatives can result in hit rates of over 20 percent, with returns of over 400 percent. Of course, CVM implications are much broader than only personalized commercial offers. Typically, they influence other commercial areas that could include pricing, new product development, dedicated save-desks, or sales force incentives. Step 1: Develop customer profiles. Creating a multichannel, multidimensional view of the customer by leveraging advanced banking infrastructure and data is the first step in the CVM journey. Lifetime perspective and potential should be incorporated as a key indicator when quantifying customer value. It is also vital to use customer value in the segmentation process, combined with behavioral indicators, and to offer this uniform, holistic customer profile view to the front line. Some banks abandon the initiative at this first stage or struggle to overcome some initial challenges like lack of information, multiple data sources, or different frontline culture. It is extremely important to focus on pragmatic solutions in customer value definition that could be further adjusted along the process (Exhibit 2).

CUSTOMER PROFILE DEVELOPMENT

SOUTH EUROPEAN Deep dive into individual customer value and profiling BANK EXAMPLE to understand segments and drivers of value TOP 30% CUSTOMERS BY AUM
Product penetration Percent Profit/ Number of cusNumber Direct AUM/ customers tomer customer of prod- Mort- Sav- Mutual invest- Insur- Current gage ings fund Thousands EUR EUR ucts ment ance account Card Credit

Segment Mortgage holders Investors Transactors Savers Other Average -15

Annual profit EUR m

14 12 1

5 30 9 18

2,825 415 117 -730 86 171

36,171 132,581 49,401 85,313 54,596 827

8.3 7.4 6.5 8.0 4.0 7.0

100 8 9 11 2 14

17 21 20 100 21 44

20 59 19 19 17 34

17 72 21 18 16 39

67 8 25 12 6 14

100 85 100 84 100 90

82 32 81 29 15 36

13 8 12 2 2 6

14

Key insights At least five distinct behavioral customer segments exist each with a distinct pattern of product holding and usage A large segment of savers primarily hold unprofitable savings and deposit products Still significant potential to further drive product penetration across all customer segments, particularly for highly profitable mortgage and card products

Exhibit 2

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Step 2: Create and prioritize a heat map. For identifying and prioritizing opportunities banks need to look across all commercial levers (acquisition, customer development, and retention) and across all customer segments. Reality is typically different, however. Our recent interviews with 20 leading European banks revealed that only 15 percent of them were measuring impact of attrition on their results, with attrition including not only lost customers, but also product and volume churn. This prioritization exercise has both strategic and operational implications. The first substep is to generate a heat map with large potential pools by segment/product/commercial lever. This helps banks identify areas of high importance, regardless of the scenario or strategy option, as well as those areas relevant to a specific strategic option. Different segments and levers will be used as a priority depending on the strategic goal the bank wishes to achieve: strategy should be a combination of segment and commercial lever focus (Exhibit 3).
HEAT MAP CREATION

Heat map analysis can be used to identify high-level CVM opportunities by macrosegment
Heat map model output scenario 1 EUR millions, annualized Key CVM value drivers Acquisition Segments Mass Retail Affluent Subtotal SOHO/Micro SMEs Small Medium Subtotal Total New customers 30 110 140 40 24 33 97 237 Winback 4 33 37 0 0 2 2 39 Activation 40 23 63 21 16 23 60 123 Development Upselling 36 27 63 30 15 49 94 157 Crossselling 120 20 140 52 23 16 91 231 Retention

CEE BANK EXAMPLE

Key value opportunities

Renew- Product Customer als churn churn 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 4 25 101 126 22 18 30 70 196 7 6 13 1 0 8 9 22

Total 262 321 583 166 96 164 426 1,009

Exhibit 3
The second substep is to identify specific commercial opportunities from the heat map by segment and to assess the relative value/importance of all key levers (acquisition, development, retention) across all main segments (retail mass, affluent; SMEs micro, small, medium), prioritizing commercial activities for a given year. This will mean defining areas of focus and deprioritizing others. At very advanced banks, annual commercial budgeting is verified bottom up taking into account the additional growth target for each individual client or client segment, and then adding up the results to achieve a figure for the entire network (Exhibit 4).

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HEAT MAP CREATION

Identify opportunities to create value across the customer base

Average customer profit per decile EUR Generate 85%of total profit 845
230 105 48 20

CEE CLIENT EXAMPLE

Destroy 25% of total profit

-7

Average profit per customer: EUR 80

-20 -50 -170

10 Customer deciles

Generate retention

actions and early warning signals Development of deciles 2 and 3 (up-sell volumes and usage increase) Targeted offer for customers with deposits elsewhere Optimize service levels

Increase activation rates/activity

levels Increase cross-selling (overall cross-sell and selected product penetration) Promote sending salary to account and contact inactive clients Introduce typical product bundles, especially for attractive products (e.g., current account for every buyer of a savings account)

Modify pricing Redesign product Increase activation Develop targeted

rates/activity levels actions to develop customers below 30 Optimize service costs

Exhibit 4
Step 3: Execute effectively across the organization. For impact on the bottom line, defining bank priorities needs to be followed by developing specific commercial initiatives and precise execution via the channels. Banks need to effectively manage a bipolar world: with sophisticated analyses in the back office, being translated into simple offers and processes for customer and frontline staff. Hence banks need to work on accurately matching customers to attractive offers and significantly improving campaign response rates by using enhanced customer information from segmentation and advanced modeling techniques. It is often critical to use multilens segmentation (for example, behavioral, needs, attitudinal, economic value, etc.), advanced modeling (for acquisition, development, and retention), both historical and predictive lifetime value, and descriptive statistics. Only then will a banks specific actions for selected customer segments be sufficiently precise to have impact, whether through best next product to buy, alternative pricing, product rebalancing, or early warning signals of attrition. The results of these analyses need to be then translated into specific offers though sales support tools for the frontline to be able to effectively communicate with customers in this increased complexity environment.

Effective targeting of campaigns using value-based segmentation and propensity to buy/churn models is crucial in the first instance. However, banks then need to execute on campaigns more precisely by testing them before they go out into the field with them, and by using optimal marketing processes to continually improve results. Best-practice banks use multichannel, multivehicle campaign design for this as well as fractional factorial test execution, vehicle testing frameworks, peer group models, and advanced measurement and performance monitoring (Exhibit 5).

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EXECUTION ACROSS ORGANIZATION

Scientific campaign design with quick tests and feedback cycles is essential for capturing value
Campaign idea
SMS Stimulation
Campaign Overview
Campaign: Overview: Hypothesis: SMS Stimulation Campaign designed to stimulate usage of SMS Subscribers that SMS at least once will likely begin to use SMS to some extent Value Drivers: Usage Segment: Postpaid and prepaid Dates: 15/1/2004 15/02/2004

Pre-campaign ROI

Test environment execution

Post-campaign ROI

Resources
Campaign Owner: Template Owner: Department: Date: ROI Model Owner: Department: Date: None T. Akgodan None 03/12/2003 None None None

Offer Execution
Target: Subs with zero SMS usage after first 2 months of service Size: Target: 3 x 10,000 Control: 10,000 Business rules: ARPU > 25EUR for postpaid, Balance > 5EUR, 0 SMS MoU in any of previous 6 months, consumer, >2 months since activation, revenue accts Offer: 1) $100 contest 2) 10 free SMS 3) 10 free voice MoU Pre-Campaign Estimates: Take Rate 10% Channels: DM O/B: 0% I/B: 0% Messages: ARPU xx TM 0% 0% SMS 100% 0% Churn xx Email 0% 0% ROI Xx EUR Bill Messaging Bill Inserts 0% N/A 0% N/A

Offer Economics
Takers: Economics: Churn xx xx xx xx Total Revenue Benefit / Revenue* 1251 (12.5%) Total ($2641) Contacts: 9002 (90%) Target 3.68% Control Net Change 23.07 ign 1.5% 0.07 pa -2.2% m ca 0.33 80.8% 0.26 26.99 3.67% -0.34%

$10687

be Cost of Offer To Cost of Contact**

Total Costs ROI:
Notes: * xxxxx

co

$8047 mpl

eted

st po

-51.2% 4.2%

$8502 $8502 ($455)

0.85

2 different messages per offer

37

More, diverse ideas Opportunity trees Deep-dive facts/analyses Focus on "unknown" assumptions to test

Standard screening Expected return (ROI) Prioritization of ideas Accelerated approval

Fast implementation Dedicated test support Accelerated new offers implementation Scientific setup

Automated evaluation Real economics of campaign

Campaign library
Description BM xxx BM xxx MM xxx MM xxx BM xxx MM xxx MM xxx Status Idea ROI Approved Approved In progress Finished Evaluated Pre-campaign Take% Costs ROI% Subs Rev Post-campaign Take% Costs ROI Subs Rev

Institutionalization of lessons learned Alignment of pre- and post-campaign evaluation Objective comparison of new and existing offers Knowledge base of ideas for future offers

Clear timing, ownership, and end products defined across campaign process

Exhibit 5

McKinseys Customer Solution Center

Some banks struggle when it comes to developing commercial actions based on analyses of massive amounts of datat or to changing mindset in their distribution channels. Migrating frontline employees from a reactive product-dispatching approach to a highly targeted proactive client-by-client pitch as well as using reactive contact to proactively offer best next product to buy is often a major challenge. Typical hurdles include: Data infrastructure issues: Relevant data is often dispersed nonhomogeneously across business segments or units in various data sources across the organization, and is hard to integrate quickly. Banks frequently struggle with insufficient capacity to handle very large data sets to perform analyses on their full customer data. Limited analytical and modeling expertise: Banks all too often lack expertise in designing high-power predictive data models at an individual customer level (for cross-selling or assessing churn risk, for example). They also tend to have very few tested hypotheses on key levers to pull by product and customer segment, or none at all. Low campaign management capacity and capability: Banks capability to handle multiple campaigns at the same time is often low, with limited tools typically available, especially in branches (for example, use of a separate Excel list for each product campaign). They also do not optimize channel roles, their utilization of branch potential is low, and they lack automated campaign report mechanisms/ tools to monitor results and quickly adjust/learn.

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McKinsey has developed an answer to these obstacles. Its global Customer Solution Center (CSC) combines deep expertise, analytical power, and infrastructure to analyze our clients customer base and help them prioritize actions to design highly targeted, high-impact campaigns. McKinseys Customer Solution Center allows banks to accelerate the identification of opportunities to generate faster impact. The facilities available include: McKinsey IT infrastructure: Client data is transferred onto a remote McKinsey IT platform with 24 TB capacity, offering a fast track to eliminate IT bottlenecks, avoid interference with regular operations, and secure, state-of-the-art hardware and statistical software applications. McKinsey capabilities and tools: Statistical/data mining software, tested, ready-to-use algorithms, best-in-class tools and capabilities, tried and proven methodologies with quantifiable results, industry-specific, proprietary models, and knowledge-leveraging cross-industry approaches (Exhibit 6).

McKINSEY CUSTOMER SOLUTION CENTER

CSC has developed an innovative service model, where on top of analytical skills McKinsey also provides physical infrastructure
1 3 5
Cross-selling Retention McKinsey Customer Solution Center Repricing Nonperforming loan early warning

Data request

Client list
80,000 names

Action per client

Mr. Smith Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. Mr. Smith Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. Smith Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. Smith Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. ___ Mr. Smith

150,000 names

100,000 names

50,000 names

Mr. ___

1 million names

Sources of value
EUR m Cross-selling Retention Repricing Transaction migration Nonperforming loan early warning Total 10 20 30 5 25 90

Confidentiality agreement McKinsey bank

Commercial strategy for Mr. Smith: "Increase these 2 commissions, ask him not to use branches for cash withdrawals, offer him this deposit, and have a conversation on whether his wife's payroll could come into the accounts, too"

Exhibit 6
These facilities offer a unique opportunity to quickly create an integrated customer view from fragmented data environments, deep-dive into the individual customer value and profile, understand segments and drivers of value, and jointly define bank-specific initiatives.

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Managing a banks existing customer base to capture higher revenues while also offering greater customer value requires vast analytical precision and reach. Clearly the preferences and needs of each individual customer are different: the difficulty is mining the relevant data time- and cost-efficiently. CVM turns data into value using a lifecycle perspective with highly effective end-to-end customer analytics. Banks lacking the IT architecture or skills have the option of entrusting the entire operation to McKinseys Customer Solution Center. The advantage is that these capabilities and techniques, once in place, are so granular that they are extremely hard for rivals to replicate. This can give a bank a substantial competitive advantage, translating into boosting its bottom line.

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Anna Fiorentino Knowledge Expert Rome Office anna_fiorentino@mckinsey.com Magdalena Proga-Stpie Associate Principal Warsaw Office magdalena_proga-stepien@mckinsey. com Radek Przyby Principal Warsaw Office radek_przybyl@mckinsey.com Carlos Trascasa Director Madrid Office carlos_trascasa@mckinsey.com

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