Background

The client is a leading UK bank founded over 170 years ago. With a base of over 15 million customers, the bank is the world’s largest mutual financial institution,  UK’s second-largest mortgage provider, and one of the UK’s largest savings providers.

Business challenge

The client offered multiple customer service channels for superior convenience. However, the channels were not integrated with each other, resulting in widespread inefficiencies.

• 43% of customers felt the need to follow up on the status of their account opening requests. 90% of customers did not receive referral incentives
• 11% to 17% of customers faced issues with account login
• 18% of customers repeatedly called for balance enquiry on low-value accounts
• 4% of customers contacted the branch for account-related queries
• 15% of customers were forced to switch channels from – voice to email – to resolve their problems

The client realized the need to improve channel performance and reduce friction in order to optimize customer experience. Firstsource emerged as the partner of choice given its deep domain expertise and proven analytics solution.

Firstsource solution

Firstsource deployed firstCustomer Intelligence (FCI) – a proprietary solution that analyzes and measures customer sentiment, emotions, and behaviors in an omni-channel environment.

• Leveraging FCI’s speech and text analytics solution, Firstsource’s experts analyzed 100,000 interactions to identify friction points and measure channel performance.
• Based on the results of the analysis, the Firstsource team implemented several measures to enhance efficiency and customer experience:
  • Created an alternate channel strategy for secure customer messaging
  • Streamlined account opening processes/systems by removing non-value activities and process bottlenecks
  • Automated data capture processes to reduce customer calls to service center
  • Optimized the IVR (interactive voice response) system, website and mobile app to improve self-service