Lowering Customer Effort Building Effective Right-Channeling into your Online Service Experience

Lowering Customer Effort Building Effective Right-Channeling into your Online Service Experience Nicholas Armstrong, Director, Global Customer Experience Products, Orbitz.com David Fulton, Director of Product Management, Oracle April 2, 2015 Copyright 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

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Demo Site Info [delete before presentation] AGENT DESKTOP INSTALL LINK: https://rightchannel.reno.us.oracle.com/cgi-bin/rightchannel.cfg/php/admin/launch.php VPN needs to be installed on the presentation machine as we ll be using a dev environment. VPN login confirmed prior to the event. PRESENTATION LINK: https://rightchannel.reno.us.oracle.com/app/home VPN needs to be installed on the presentation machine. VPN login confirmed prior to the event. Admin User Credentials U: Admin P: <no password> CP Admin User Credentials U: Admin P: <no password> Goal #1: Help You Understand What Right- Channeling Is and How Oracle Service Cloud Customers Apply It Today Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Confidential 3

Demo Site Info [delete before presentation] AGENT DESKTOP INSTALL LINK: https://rightchannel.reno.us.oracle.com/cgi-bin/rightchannel.cfg/php/admin/launch.php VPN needs to be installed on the presentation machine as we ll be using a dev environment. VPN login confirmed prior to the event. PRESENTATION LINK: https://rightchannel.reno.us.oracle.com/app/home VPN needs to be installed on the presentation machine. VPN login confirmed prior to the event. Admin User Credentials U: Admin P: <no password> CP Admin User Credentials U: Admin P: <no password> Goal #2: Give You Practical Guidance on Applying Right- Channeling To Your Own Experience! Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Confidential 4

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Why The Focus on Right-Channeling? Empowered Customers Some Things Have Changed Forever Digital is Humanized 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s WHAT S NEXT Knowledge Everywhere Internet of Things Harder To Differentiate, Compete & Win Mobile as Primary Channel Cross-Channel Service Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Big Channel Shifts are Happening Web Self Service Social (Communities, Monitoring etc) Phone/IVR Digital Channels (chat etc) 2014 20% 7% 65% 8% 50% 300% 64% 150% 2018 30% 28% 22% 20% Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Source: Gartner, 2014

How Do We Make Selection of Channels Easy? For this type of user or device.. Interchangeable Channel #1 Interchangeable Channel #2 Get Your Answer Now! Get Your Answer Now! Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Confidential 15

How Do We Make Selection of Channels Easy? For this type of question.. Email You ll get your answer when the seas evaporate, the Earth grows cold and is then swallowed in the Suns fiery macrocosm and the last Star flickers and dies.. Chat We ve got a team of idle agents just sitting around playing Minecraft who would love to answer this question! Abandon All Hope! Get Your Answer Now! Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Confidential 16

How Do We Make Selection of Channels Easy? For this type of question.. Chat We staff our Chat channel 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. We have agents available now. Wait time estimated to be less than 20 secs Email We staff our Email channel 7 days a week between 7am 7pm CST We look to respond to emails within 1 business day Click to Chat! Click to Email Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Confidential 17

Viable Approaches for Right-Channeling Contextual Dynamic Adjust the channels on offer to match the users context / importance of the user Adjust the channels on offer to match the user s need Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

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Contextual Right-Channeling Options are based on the context of the user Context can apply to multiple factors, including the device they are using, who they are, where they are etc. Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Confidential 20

Right Channeling at Orbitz

Who am I? Nicholas Armstrong Director of Global Customer Experience Products Customer Support Sites/FAQs Email/Chat Capabilities Agent Knowledgebase Incident Management

More about Orbitz Orbitz Worldwide is a leading global online travel company Mobile: Key Trends: Industry Challenges:

The Need Our Customers Need: Contextual information to understand self-service capabilities Access to the most appropriate contact method to resolve their contact as quickly as possible (First Contact Resolution (FCR)) Our Business Needs: To deflect contacts whenever possible To drive contacts to most efficient contact methods (Chat versus Voice potentially) To resolve the contact as quickly as possible (FCR)

Our Approach Customer Support Site Redesign Mobile Specific FAQs Enhanced Right Channeling Differentiated for Mobile

Customer Support Site Redesign Old New

Mobile Specific FAQs Desktop Mobile

Enhanced Right Channeling Desktop Mobile

Results Reduced Contact Ratio Down 10% Increased FAQ interactions Up 10+% Drove more contacts to Chat Up 40+%

Next Steps Drive more FAQ traffic from.com site Continuous improvement with internal Product and Technology teams Continue to differentiate for the mobile experience In 2012, 10% FAQ visits from mobile devices In 2014, 30% FAQ visits from mobile devices For all Orbitz Worldwide brands, a third of FAQ traffic is from mobile devices Spanish language FAQs: 50% Japanese language FAQs: 50% Chinese language FAQs: 90+% Bias Chat over Email Could reduce concurrency Allows businesses to better measure FCR

Recommendations Refine FAQ content with Voice of Customer Measure and trend your customers mobile usage, differentiate accordingly Right Channel incrementally to understand the customer engagement and business impact

Considerations Demographics of target customer Value and complexity of transactions Overall CRM capabilities A view of customer contacts across channel is critical

Segmentation and Channels User segmentation is another valid right-channeling approach Results in very different experiences for the authenticated vs unauthenticated user Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Confidential 33

Segmentation and Channels Managed by business users In this example, the authenticated high value customer has a very different view of channels. Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Confidential 34

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Why is The Vonage Experience So Rare? Dynamic Right-Channeling is hard to do well: Sometimes the relationships just between questions and recommended channels are not that deterministic How do we know which channels to apply to which problems? How do we make these changes to our experience without a large effort / big maintenance lift? Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 39

Against What? Measures of Complexity Characteristics of customer service interaction Low complexity Low value High volume Repeatable Single-source answer Medium complexity Medium value Circumstancerelated Multiple sources required to answer High complexity High value Complex issues Multiple sources required to answer Significant customer Information required High-value customer segment High technical complexity Low complexity Medium complexity High complexity Appropriate Channel Self-service FAQs Site search Virtual agents Virtual agent Email Click-to-call Reactive or proactive chat Community Click-to-call Reactive or proactive chat Co-browse Telephone 2009, Forrester Research Inc. Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 42

Against What? Measures of Complexity Characteristics of customer service interaction Low complexity Low value High volume Repeatable Single-source answer Medium complexity Medium value Circumstancerelated Multiple sources required to answer High complexity High value Complex issues Multiple sources required to answer Significant customer Information required High-value customer segment High technical complexity Low complexity Medium complexity High complexity Appropriate Channel??? 2009, Forrester Research Inc. Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 43

Find Your Anchor for Determining Complexity This needs to be something that your end-users can select when contacting you A good starting point is to look at the category taxonomy in the Service Cloud solution Discount that first before moving on and looking at other candidates Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Confidential 45

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Replicating This Experience on Your Own Sites It s a code example but its pretty small and the areas to manipulate are fairly trivial The social matches rely on new stuff coming in a later release just remove those if you are planning to apply to a current site As long as you are on the latest CP framework, it should be adaptable to production releases of the product. Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Confidential 58

Your Roadmap To Modern Customer Service GET GOING GET BETTER GET AHEAD Empower Customers With Self-Service Provide Multiple Choices Of Channels Enable Customers To Help Each Other Standardize Service Across All Channels Innovate New Ways To Engage Connect All Silos Of Knowledge Unify All Customer And Business Data Personalize Customer Engagements Become The Leader In Service Excellence Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

How Do I Get Better on Right-Channeling? Contextual Dynamic Adjust the channels on offer to match the users context / importance of the user Adjust the channels on offer to match the user s need Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

How Do I Get Ahead on Right-Channeling? Contextual + Dynamic Adjust the channels on offer to match the users context / importance of the user Adjust the channels on offer to match the user s need Copyright 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Monday s To Do List: 1 2 3 4 5 Look at Your Data / Consider your Channel Goals Segment Incoming Incidents into Low, Medium & High Complexity Is there a pattern between complexity, need & channel? Discuss Dynamic Channeling with your team Is there a pattern between user context and channel? Look at Contextual Channeling as a way forward Then come talk to us! Copyright 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 63

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Be Sure to Attend: Web Customer Service Track 2.00 2:45 pm, Delfino 4104 KCS and Community: Bringing Them Together, Paul Drotleff, Rockwell Automation & Matthew Lees, Oracle Knowledge-Centered Support (KCS) grew out of desire for support organizations to deliver greater value with more efficiency. Now on its fifth iteration, it provides methodology for creating and maintaining knowledge in support environments, with the end goal of ensuring productive customer experiences. As the sources of knowledge change witness the exponential rise in user-generated knowledge across the social web KCS adapts through the collaboration of its adherents. Join this session to discuss the convergence of KCS and social knowledge, through the Customer Engagement Journey Matrix, reputation models, and other approaches, and take away valuable insights that you can apply to your own KCS implementations.