The new digital tipping point Using digital to drive future retail
banking profitability
The migration to digital in Australian retail banking
June 2012
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banking profitability June 2012 1
What is the digital tipping point?
It is the point that is driven by customers’ attitude towards, and
uptake of, digital banking. It is the point at which digital goes
from being an adjunct to a banking proposition, to being essential.
It is the point that banks go from having a digital proposition, to
being a digital proposition. Most importantly we think that point
is now, and it affects how banks should think about their market
and investment strategies.
PwC conducted research with 1,000 Australian customers to test the
impact and extent of the digital tipping point in retail banking.
The respondents represented a cross-section of customers in terms
of demographic attributes. Our intent was to supplement and augment
the insights that Australian banks already have on their own
customers, and provide an ‘outside-in’ perspective including
global, good practice insights.
Our banks were among this nation’s earliest adopters of the
internet and rank as four of the top 25 most visited Australian
websites. Among bank customers, some 75% use digital banking.
Digital channels can easily account for the majority of
interactions a customer has with a bank.
Given how widespread digital banking is in the Australian market,
it may feel odd to be discussing a ‘digital tipping point’. However
there are still some challenges limiting Australia’s digital
banking experience. There are across-the-market questions about
security of mobile channels, and segment-specific issues to do with
usability and uncompleted sales. Australian banks also have varied
models for digital governance and levels of digital investment that
can limit their digital proposition.
This report, The New Digital Tipping Point: Using Digital to Drive
Future Retail Banking Profitability, seeks to better understand
Australian retail banking customers’ perception of digital. A core
finding is how central the digital banking experience is to many,
many customers. What it highlights is how core digital is to
customers. Not only does it offer a low cost and targeted
interaction for banks with their customers, customers also find it
the easiest channel with which to interact for many needs.
This has important implications for the way banks plan their
digital investments and view their offline assets. It also means
banks must address some of the key barriers for customers to switch
to online banking, and to leverage the range of digital
channels.
The opportunity is material. Customers fully leveraging digital
have a product penetration up to 20% higher than ‘non-digital’
customers. Digital customers are also up to 1.5 times more
profitable, due to a far lower cost to serve and higher retention
and cross-selling.
Our Australian research on the digital tipping point in retail
banking has been developed to help retail banks understand the
opportunities and risks in the new digital era and to maximise
their investment now and into the future.
We hope you find this report useful in growing your business.
Best,
Michelle Fitzgerald
About PwC’s Australian digital tipping point research
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Which customer segments are leading the digital tipping point in
Australian retail banking?
How can retail banks balance and optimise digital and multichannel
investments?
How can retail banks use digital and multichannel capability to
create more main bank customers?
Questions the digital tipping point research helps answer
How can retail banks accelerate customer migration to digital and
multichannel banking?
How can retail banks shift from ‘having’ a digital capability, to
‘being’ a digital enterprise?
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Contents
1. The digital tipping point in Australian banking – it’s already
here 4
2. The case for digital – digital is key to driving future retail
banking profitability 8
3. Maximising your digital investment returns – using digital to
create more 13 ‘main bank’ customers
4. Your digital action plan – shift from ‘having’ digital
capability to ‘being’ 18 a digital enterprise
Insights for the Australian retail banking sector
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1. The digital tipping point in Australian retail banking – it’s
already here
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Digital is already a key part of retail banking in Australia
Source: Alexa.com June 2012
Digital is already a key part of retail banking in Australia
Banks, in stark contrast to their occasional image as staid,
unchanging institutions, have often been among the quickest to
adopt technology. And it has always been so. From the earliest
abacus to the cloud computing of our era, banks and technology are
a perfect combination.
In Australia, bank websites rank in four of the nation’s top 25
most visited while some 75 per cent of bank customers are using
basic online banking features. More and more customers are adopting
value-added digital features such as payment app’s and personal
financial management (PFM) tools. Customers are also increasingly
engaging with social media as a tool to talk about their banking
experiences – both good and bad.
Top Australian Sites*
1 Google Australia
13 Blogspot.com.au
14 Amazon.com
15 Ninemsn
17 PayPal
19 Westpac Banking Corporation
25 Real Estate Australia
Digital channels easily account for the majority of direct and
indirect interactions a customer has with their retail bank. And
amongst all of these developments the real game-changer, mobile
payments, is yet to reach its full potential.
Given how established digital banking is in the Australian market,
it may appear odd to be discussing a ‘digital tipping point’.
However the insights from PwC’s recent survey with Australian
consumers shows that there is still a lot of untapped opportunity
for our local retail banks to use digital to drive customer and
business benefits.
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6
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10
(contact centre) 6.9
Importance of each factor measured out of 10, weighted average
score across all segments
Digital banking is already more important to customers than going
into a branch, using a contact centre or ATM banking.
Digital has become a priority channel.
Australian retail banking has reached a digital tipping point
across all customer segments
Source: PwC Australia Digital Tipping Point customer research, May
2012
Importance of banking features to customers – digital features
ranked highest
75% At least 75% of online customers use digital banking
90% At least 90% of digital banking customers perform basic banking
tasks like bank transfers, bill payments and checking account
balances
Online security and online capability are two of the most important
features for Australian bank customers
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Digital adoption is being led by high income and Generation Y
customers
Digital is not just about Gen Y – in fact, high income earning
customers are ahead of Gen Y in the adoption of digital banking in
Australia.
High income customers ($150K+ households) matter to banks because
they are high value customers.
Gen Y customers (18 to 34 year olds) matter to banks because many
of them are now choosing their primary financial services
provider.
‘Asset rich’ Baby Boomer customers (45+ years) are also important
to banks, and represent the greatest digital migration opportunity
as they significantly lag other customer segments in digital
banking adoption.
Note: the customer segment-level analysis conducted in this
research included: technology adoption rates; importance and
satisfaction ratings of a range of banking features including
digital and physical channel attributes; current digital banking
activities (devices, types of interactions by product, frequency);
level of effort for digital and physical channel sales and service
interactions; multichannel preferences for selected simple and
complex banking products, the drivers of these preferences and
problems encountered in multichannel interactions; the relationship
between digital banking features and customer acquisition,
retention and cross-sell; willingness to pay for selected digital
banking services and products; attitudes towards new banking
entrants and incentives required to switch customers to
digital-only banking providers.
Source: PwC Australia Digital Tipping Point customer research, May
2012
Boomers age 45+
Compared to all other age segments:
• Lag digital banking adoption across all measures (1% take up new
devices immediately and 42% in 12 months or less; 8% usually access
digital banking via mobile, 2% usually via tablet; many prefer a
voice / face to face interaction)
• Biggest migration opportunity for digital
Gen X age 34-44
Compared to all other age segments:
• ‘Middle of the pack’ between Baby Boomer and Gen Y customers for
most digital banking activities except tablet banking (5% take up
new devices immediately and 56% in 12 months or less; 22% usually
access digital banking via mobile phone, 9% via tablet)
• Significant migration opportunity for digital
Gen Y age 18-34
Compared to all other age segments:
• Lead new technology, mobile and banking adoption (7% take up new
devices immediately, and 65% in 12 months or less; 34% usually
access digital banking via mobile phone, 8% usually via
tablet)
• Most frequent users of digital banking (24% access digital
banking on a daily basis)
• Highest users of digital banking for advice, research and
shopping
High income households ($150k+)
Compared to all other segments:
• Lead new technology and tablet banking adoption (11% take up new
devices immediately and 64% within 12 months or less; 12% usually
access digital banking via tablet)
• Highest and most frequent users of digital banking (83% use the
internet for digital banking, 32% on a daily basis)
• Highest awareness of value-added digital banking features (eg
personal budgeting tools, ‘pay anyone’ capability)
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Gen Y customers prefer to use digital channels across banking
products (simple and complex) 1 for all stages
Digital interactions are also preferred by most retail banking
customers across the product lifecycle – with selective support
from traditional channels Using mortgages as an example, most
customer segments prefer to use digital channels across the product
lifecycle. Our research shows that this is the case for many
products including credit cards and simple wealth
management1.
The exception for mortgages is Baby Boomers, who prefer to go to a
branch to compare product offers, apply for a mortgage, and make
their first payment. They are then happy to transfer to a digital
channel for ongoing transacting and servicing.
This example indicates that digital cannot be looked at as a
stand-alone activity and investment in retail banking, as it has
critical interdependencies with traditional channels across the
customer experience and product lifecycle.
Baby Boomers have the highest reliance on branch support across
both simple and complex products
Contact centres are generally seen as a support channel, rather
than a preferred channel, by customers
Learn and compare
Channel first preference
Notes
1 The specific products included in PwC’s Digital Tipping Point
research with Australian customers were: transaction accounts,
credit cards, mortgages and wealth management (superannuation and/
or life insurance).
2 Refers to the product application stage.
Source: PwC Australia Digital Tipping Point customer research, May
2012
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2. The case for digital – digital is key to driving future retail
banking profitability
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Digital is key to driving future retail banking
profitability.
Provided that it is well managed, digital banking can drive a lower
Customer Effort Score, a higher number of customer interactions,
higher average customer product holdings and profitability and
lower cost to sell and serve. This is particularly important in a
low credit growth environment and where competition for deposits in
high.
Digital is not just a lower cost channel but is also a key lever to
improve the customer experience, making it well worth the effort to
invest in customers migrating to digital.
Digital presents an opportunity to retail banking because it is
virtuous
Digital capability drives retail
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PwC’s research shows digital banking has the lowest Customer Effort
Score compared to traditional banking channels.
The Customer Effort Score suggests the less effort customers need
to make in a sales or service interaction, the more likely they are
to reuse a service, giving more opportunity to connect and spend
more. The lower the score, the better.
For a retail bank, this means the best way to encourage existing
customers to purchase more of your products is to reduce the effort
customers need to make in sales and service interactions across the
product lifecycle by leveraging digital. However, given that many
customers additionally require selective support from traditional
channels, retail banks need to consider customer effort across all
channels, not just digital.
Reducing customer effort can involve increasing levels of
automation such as price decisioning and simplifying documentation
such as application forms; activities which additionally deliver
material cost reduction for banks.
Digital banking drives a lower Customer Effort Score (CES)
Effort required to obtain a satisfactory outcome by channel -
Australian retail banking customers
Customer effort measured out of
5 Branch banking
3.2 Mobile banker
3.1 Telephone banking
3.1 Online banking
2.3
Customer effort measured out of 5 (most effort required), weighted
average score across all segments. A low score indicates customers
think their bank’s digital channels are more convenient.
Customer Effort Score and loyalty
The Customer Effort Score is measured by asking customers “How much
effort did you personally have to put forth to handle your
request?”
According to empirical research, the Customer Effort Score is a
better way of predicting whether customers will buy more products
and services from their bank than the Net Promoter Score (NPS) and
Customer Satisfaction Index (CSAT).
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Source: PwC Australia Digital Tipping Point customer research, May
2012; ‘Stop trying to delight your customers’ Harvard Business
Review, July - August 2010; Corporate Executive Board, ‘Engineering
the low-effort customer experience’, 2010
Introducing the Customer Effort Score
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Digital banking drives customer interaction by providing customers
with choice. For example, time and motion analysis recently
conducted by one of the big four Australian banks shows that
customers generally prefer to access digital banking services
via:
• desktop when they first arrive at work
• mobile whilst they are commuting from work to home, or ‘on the
go’
• tablet whilst they are at home during the evenings.
A similar principal applies to multichannel banking – offering
customers access to traditional and digital channels gives them the
freedom to bank how they want, when they want.
Digital and multichannel capability is important because the
customers using these channels not only have a higher number of
interactions with their bank, they are also likely to hold more
products and be more profitable customers.
Digital and multichannel retail banking drives increased customer
interaction, penetration and profitability
Notes 1. Multichannel defined as branch, contact centre, ATM and
digital. Source: PwC client experience and research; Commonwealth
Bank Technology Update, May 2012; Wells Fargo Community Banking
Market Update, May 2011; Future Foundation, “Emerging Trends in
Mobile Banking”, 2011
p3x number of transactions across all channels
p20% average number of products
p40% average profit contribution
p1.8x likelihood to cross-sell
Multichannel1 retail banking customers, compared to single channel
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Digital channels operate at materially lower costs than traditional
channels such as branches and contact centres.
Digital channels enable customers to self-serve for many products.
This requires many processes to be automated, including pricing,
credit decisioning and fulfilment, which frees up operational staff
capacity.
Customer self-service via digital channels also frees up branch and
contact centre capacity so that lower numbers of staff can support
higher value customer interactions, for example needs analysis and
complex wealth management advice.
However banks need to ensure that capacity and capability are
aligned to demand for every channel not just digital, to ensure
that increased transactions volumes do not result in cost
growth.
Banks also need to ensure that the customer has a positive digital
experience, rather than simply being moved to a low cost digital
channel.
Digital can also be a lower cost banking channel – provided that
the investment is well managed
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and digital channels - UK Bank
p77x The cost to sell per customer is up to 77x greater in a branch
than via digital
p43x The cost to sell per customer is up to 43x greater in a
contact centre than via digital
p16x The cost to serve per customer is up to 16x greater in a
branch than via digital
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3. Maximising your digital investment returns – using digital to
create ‘main bank’ customers
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Executed well, digital turns existing customers into active users
and main bank customers
Australian banks need to remove a number of obstacles to migrate
more customers to digital and multichannel banking, and therefore
create more main bank1 customers, by:
• ‘Pulling’ more customers to digital banking to reduce customer
effort and cost to sell and serve, and
• Accelerating customer migration to mobile and tablet banking and
selectively supporting multichannel interactions, to increase
interactions, improve customer experience and therefore customer
product penetration and profitability.
A. Not active, not main banked customers
Typically lowest average product holdings
Activate with marketing, better digital propositions and effective
onboarding
B. Active, not main banked
Digital drives better average holdings
Promote to main bank through rich digital experiences and by adding
value and insight to customer data
C. Not active, main banked
Main bank primacy drives good product holding levels and higher
average deposits
D. Active, main banked
Best level of average product holdings from digital usage and main
bank relationshipB
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their transaction/savings account with, and that their salary is
paid into.
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But Australian retail banks need to remove a number of obstacles to
digital banking adoption by customers
Australian customers who are not currently using digital banking
cite some common barriers to adoption such as security concerns and
screen size usability. In addition there are barriers unique to
specific segments, for instance ‘high income’ and ‘Baby Boomer’
customers would be more inclined to use digital channels if voice
or face-to-face support options better complemented digital
products and services. In fact. video conferencing support was one
of the most desired features across segments.
Digital strategies cannot be ‘one size fits all’, and need to be
tailored at a segment level to entice more customers to the digital
tipping point – and maximise return on investment for the
banks.
High income and Baby Boomer customers value voice/face-to-face
support to complement digital banking
High income, Gen Y and Gen X customers value special offers and
price as incentives to move to digital channels
Notes 1 For mobile and tablet devices. Source: “Productivity in
Australian Banking – Sailing Through the Perfect Storm”, PwC
Australia, March 2012
Customers that are not currently using digital banking would
consider migrating if the following were offered:
Customer segment Common needs Tailored needs
High income • Security concerns satisfied
• Screen size optimised1
• Fewer technical glitches
• Voice/face-to-face support option
Baby Boomers • Voice/face-to-face support option
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There is a material gap between mobile and tablet device ownership
and usage for digital banking among Australian customers.
This matters because analysis shows customers generally prefer to
use different digital devices for banking throughout the day (eg
desktop at work, mobile ‘on the go’, tablet at home). Customers
using multiple digital devices are likely to have more banking
interactions, and therefore hold more banking products and be more
profitable.
Banks need to address online security and screen usability concerns
for mobile and tablet devices, which are the key barriers to
Australian customers using these devices to do their banking
today.
This will become more important as mobile and tablets become the
devices of choice for customers. This is a moving target as
Australia already has one of the highest take-up rates of
smartphones in the world and ownership is expected to almost double
within the next three years. Tablet ownership is also expected to
increase by up to 220% over this time.
Further effort is required to accelerate customer migration to
mobile and tablet banking
33% of Baby Boomer customers who don’t currently use a mobile phone
for banking would consider it
44% of Gen X customers who don’t currently use a mobile phone for
banking would consider it
46% of Baby Boomer customers who don’t currently use a tablet for
banking would consider it
64% of Gen X customers who don’t currently use a tablet for banking
would consider it
The digital banking gap for Baby Boomer customers using mobile
devices
Notes 1 Based on Baby Boomers customers that said they do not
usually access digital banking via their mobile phone. Source: PwC
Australia Digital Tipping Point customer research, May 2012;
Commonwealth Bank Technology Update, May 2012; Telstra Smartphone
Index; PwC Australia Entertainment & Media Outlook
Why would you not consider using a mobile phone for online banking?
(Baby Boomer responses)1
Prefer using big PC rather than small screen mobile
Security risks via online banking
Likely encounter technical glitch/problem
52%
44%
21%
12%
Own a mobile device
Usually use digital banking via
mobile device
96%
61%
8%
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Further effort is also required to support multichannel
interactions
Multichannel capability is required to drive increased customer
product penetration and profitability in retail banking.
But Australian customers cite a number of problems when using
multiple retail banking channels. For instance, switching channels
can drive higher effort for customers, threatening the promise of
improved customer experience. Banks need to make it easier for
customers to switch channels when they want.
Source: Pwc Australia Digital Tipping point customer research. May
2012
0 10 15 25 30 35
Having to repeat personal data provision
Incomplete information available about the product / service I
need
Lack of awareness about my profile and / or product holdings
Not being directed to other ways to access more information
Not being able to do certain things across all channels (eg
Digital, phone & branch)
Other methods do not meet my needs
31%
14%
12%
10%
9%
2%
Having to repeat personal data provision is the biggest problem
customers encounter when using multiple banking channels
Most frequent problems encountered by customers when using multiple
banking channels
Inconsistent access to features and services across different
channels is a major annoyance
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4. Your digital action plan – shift from ‘having’ digital
capability to ‘being’ a digital enterprise
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A digital action plan is critical to shift from ‘having’ digital
capability to ‘being’ a digital enterprise
‘Having’ digital capability
Average number of products and average customer profitability
Cost to sell and serve
1. Respond to market
2. Further reduce customer effort and cost
Integrate digital and traditional channel capabilities and
investment to help digitise the customer experience.
3. Measure and manage digital interactions
Increase digital sales by measuring and managing the way you do
business.
4. Put digital at the heart of your strategy, culture and operating
model
Integrate digital throughout your organisation so that you ‘tip’ to
become a digital enterprise.
Digital action planSome Australian banks still face the dilemma of
having to choose one of two available paths to them:
• to stay with their traditional banking model and ‘have’ some
digital capability embedded within this; or
• embrace change and integrate digital into the heart of their
strategy, culture and operating model so that they ‘tip’ to become
a digital enterprise.
The victors will be the banks that set out a clear digital vision
supported by a digital action plan that aligns with targeted
customer and business benefits.
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1. Respond to market – attract more customers online by removing
known obstacles
Australian retail banks need to attract more customers to digital
channels by removing known obstacles. ‘Good practice’ banks have
overcome customers’ digital security and screen visibility concerns
by investing in new capabilities and/or proactively marketing these
capabilities to customers.
For example, most Australian banks have invested heavily in digital
security capabilities and appropriate customer support, but few are
actively promoting this to their customers.
Conversely, some overseas banks have also learned that ‘push’
strategies, such as increasing the cost to customers of using
traditional channels, are not well received and can result in
negative media attention.
Notes 1. For mobile and tablet devices Source: PwC research.
Digital securityExternal Digital securityDigital security Screen
usability1
• Offer free security software to mobile and tablet banking
users
• Allow customers to deactivate their debit card in real time via
their mobile phone
• Use multi-factor security layers, eg:
– allow customers to register their desktop, mobile and/or
tablet
– use location-based verification for mobile and/or tablet
• Focus brand campaigns on mobile and tablet security and customer
support in addition to traditional authentication modes.
• Customise mobile and tablet offerings based on an appropriate
subset of desktop functionality – this has been done for a range of
offers beyond basic retail banking, eg:
– online trading
– Personal financial management (PFM) tools
• In one example, one-third of a bank’s online banking customers
migrated onto its mobile PFM tool.
Promote your digital offering as being safe, secure and usable –
good practice examples
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2. Further reduce customer effort and costs by integrating channel
capabilities and investments
If digital is just added as another ‘layer’ on top of existing
retail banking channels, the risk is that overall customer effort
and costs will increase. Australian retail banks need to
selectively invest in multichannel capabilities for specific
interactions, with specific products, for select customer
segments.
This means digital and traditional channel roles need to be
meticulously aligned and integrated over time so that customer
effort can be further reduced. But this also needs to be done in a
way that doesn’t add to costs, and ideally reduces costs
overall.
‘Good practice’ banks are re-purposing traditional channels to
provide customer education and support for digital interactions.
They are also creating new social channels to provide customer
advice. These activities will help accelerate customer self-service
via digital, which in the long-term will free up a smaller number
of traditional channels to support higher value customer
interactions.
They are also investing in customer insight and analytics to
identify trigger event and life event sales opportunities, and to
support cross-channel leads and case management systems, which will
generate new sales and create smoother customer transitions between
channels, therefore further reducing customer effort. Source: PwC
research
Integrate digital and multichannel capabilities and align
investments – good practice examples
Leverage all channels to drive a better customer experience via
digital
Invest in customer insight and analytics to make multichannel
interactions easier
• Advise branch and contact centre staff of an individual
customer’s history of repeat requests for simple interactions, and
use staff education and FAQ tools to teach customers how to conduct
those interactions online
• Use contact centre staff to offer proactive chat requests to
online customers (eg explain product features and fees)
• Use contact centre staff to follow up customers’ incomplete
online applications via telephone
• Create digital social channels to provide speedy, relevant
answers to customers’ questions for complex products (eg tax advice
for financial planning)
• Use online avatars to deliver personalised savings and investment
advice for complex products.
• Use analytics to identify customer cross-sell opportunities and
deliver targeted marketing offers via their most frequently used
digital device at an appropriate time of day
• Use leads in real-time and allow customers to book appointments
with financial planners online
• Deploy a cross-channel case management system to share data
across channels and provide visibility into case loads and customer
resolution times.
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Source: PwC Australia Digital Tipping Point customer research, May
2012; PwC Singapore Digital Tipping Point customer research, May
2012.
3. Measure and manage the quality of digital interactions in an
integrated fashion
Most banks are tracking statistics associated with their digital
channels. The challenge is to integrate them into a coherent
dashboard to track the quality of their digital interactions and
focus investment capital.
PwC has developed an integrated dashboard which looks at external
and internal factors. A benefit of this integrated, fact-based
approach has been an increase in the return on digital investment.
Interestingly, it often directs investment into areas beyond
building new technical features and functionality, including
targeted marketing or enhanced training support.
Digital security
Digital engagement • Total online population • Number of unique
visitors • Number of customers • Time spend on site • Number of
fans
Social media buzz • Number of snippets • Number of snippets per
topic • Distribution of snippets • Number of like
Sentiment • Negative verses positive sentiment • Purchase
intent
External Digital securityInternal
Behavioural economics • Number of Sales process started •
Abandonment rate • Percentage of online sales • BE maturity
store
User experience • User experience • Click through rates
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4. Put digital at the heart of your business strategy, culture and
operating model
Digital cannot be run as a stand-alone activity.
It needs to be led from the top and executed in an innovative and
integrated manner across your organisation for maximum
effectiveness and profitability.
Lead digital from the top and set a clear vision • A clear digital
vision led by the CEO and senior
executives needed to show staff why digital is critical to the
future customer experience and bank profitability, and what role it
needs to play
• Senior leaders also need to ‘walk the talk’ and lead digital
usage adoption.
Create a culture of digital innovation • Continuously adapt and
roll out innovative
digital services
• Use innovation labs with third parties and provide incentives for
employees to generate new ideas.
Integrate digital into your Target Operating Model (TOM) •
Integrate digital into your business from top to
bottom, including
– corporate strategy – governance and decision making – product and
channel design – processes – culture and capability.
Adopt a ‘lean’ approach to execution • Have a clear and realistic
execution plan but
revisit priorities and progress frequently and adapt plans as
needed
• Create an evolutionary path with frequent deliverables that drive
clear customer and business benefits, rather than just a long-term
project plan.
• Drive agility and relevance
customers via apps, personal financial management (PFM) tools and
gamification
• Integrate and monetise social media as part of the consumer
experience.
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The challenge is how to shape your organisation around digital.
Which way will you tip?
The digital tipping point in Australian retail banking is upon us.
Digital is no longer a trade off. Digital needs appropriate
relevance in the operating model and culture of a bank. The level
of digital interaction, increases in the proportion of customers
using digital channels and the rapid increase in social media need
to be factored into governance, investment and organisation
structures. A clear digital action plan is critical to shift from
‘having’ digital capability to ‘being’ a digital enterprise, in
order to fully realise the promised benefits of digital
banking.
‘Having’ digital capability
Average number of products and average customer profitability
Cost to sell and serve
Market context
Digital lowest CES High digital usage Trend of increase
uptake
1. Respond to market
2. Further reduce customer effort and cost
Integrate digital and traditional channel capabilities and
investment to help digitise the customer experience.
3. Measure and manage digital interactions
Increase digital sales by measuring and managing the way you do
business.
4. Put digital at the heart of your strategy
Integrate digital into your operating model so that you ‘tip’ to
become a digital enterprise.
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The survey was conducted online demonstrating that all respondents
have access to the internet through either a desktop,mobile or
tablet device
Respondents
Note: the customer segment-level analysis conducted in this
research included: technology adoption rates; importance and
satisfaction ratings of a range of banking features including
digital and physical channel attributes; current digital banking
activities (devices, types of interactions by product, frequency);
level of effort for digital and physical channel sales and service
interactions; multichannel preferences for selected simple and
complex banking products, the drivers of these preferences and
problems encountered in multichannel interactions; the relationship
between digital banking features and customer acquisition,
retention and cross-sell; willingness to pay for selected digital
banking services and products; attitudes towards new banking
entrants and incentives required to switch customers to
digital-only banking providers.
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Michelle Fitzgerald Partner, Financial Services, PwC
Consulting
+61 (3) 8603 2997
[email protected]
Hugh Harley Financial Services leader, PwC Australia
+61 (2) 8266 5746
[email protected]
Shane O’Sullivan Principal, Financial Services, PwC
Consulting
+61 (3) 8603 5333
[email protected]
pwc.com.au
© 2012 PricewaterhouseCoopers. All rights reserved. In this
document, “PwC” refers to PricewaterhouseCoopers a partnership
formed in Australia, which is a member firm of
PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, each member firm of
which is a separate legal entity.
Acknowledgements:
PwC Australia Selim Ahmed Jeremy Barton Simon Doukas Andreas Skopal
Shu Shan Tan Tristan Saw
PwC UK Steve Davies Sean Mahdi
PwC USA Eileen Perrin Kanika Thakar