This blogpost is a brief summary of the points mentioned in the FSI day at Google

Customer Data Platform with Google Cloud

  • Expectations have risen dramatically
  • Fusion of structured adn instructed data into 360 view
    • amount of data
    • type of data
    • usability of data
  • Heightened data privacy and regulation
  • Hub and Spoke to consolidated data platform
  • Challenges
    • Slow
      • Data silos
      • Legacy processes and technology
      • Fragmented data models
      • Complex data pipelines and batch ETLs
      • Model risk governance
    • Expensive
    • Inefficient
  • CDP
  • Use cases
    • Events preceding account closure
    • Generating sales leads from general browsing
      • Digital clickstream journey
    • Propensity to buy a product
    • Create digital variables and create libraries that can be used for future models
    • Build behavioral data to propensity models
    • CROFT - Compliance - Risk - Operations - Finance - Treasury
  • Traditional stats vs Behavioral Stats
    • Minimal overlap
  • What is 3P data ?

Search, Automation and Hyper-personalization

  • Multisearch
    • Image and text to the search query
    • Landscape image assets
  • 64% of consumers say they mistrust companies

The Business Value and Impact of CDP

  • only 17% of marketers are able to use data and AI effectively
  • Broadcast era - Precision Era - Predictive Era
  • Data
    • Relevance
    • Consistency and quality
    • Uniqueness
  • Challenges
    • Scaling
    • Speed
    • Standards
    • Siloizatin
    • Sharing
    • Security
    • Servicing
    • Skills
  • Kakao bank in Korea - Digital bank
  • People are willing to share everything on a social platform but are anal about sharing data with a bank
  • Omni-channel activation
  • Re-targeting
  • Indonesia - many geographical regions
    • Difficult for a bank in each geographical region
    • Banks have managed to integrate in the mom and pop store in each of the island
  • Use cases
    • Enhanced Customer Understanding
    • Smart Consumer segmentation
    • Presonalized Makreting communication
    • Attribution Modeling
    • Marketing spend optimization
    • Consumer signals for demand sensing
    • Financial product recommendation
    • Consumer lifetime value optimizatoin
    • Propensity to convert modeling
    • Trend spotting
    • Sentiment analysis
    • Accelerating qualification and innovation
  • What is the difference between GA360 vs GA4 ?
  • First Party Audience activation
  • 4 to 6 weeks to implement models
  • CDP - 6 to 9 months to build and implement

Panel discussion

  • ZA Tech - unicorn providing platform for insurance companies
    • run insurance on a digital platform
    • started grab’s insurance business
    • NTUC income
    • sister company - leading digital bank in HK
  • cost saving and cost reduction - more important than revenue - shared by CEOs
  • Insurers don’t have a lot of data - less number of interactions - limited data - people who have the data are the agents, brokers and are not going to share with you
  • 90% trade conversion of ideas they sent
  • 8 billion transactions per day
  • Insurers problem
    • Pay higher commission to the platform - partners squeeze out stuff
    • Getting direct channel is crucial
  • Hyperpersonalization - Cautionary guardrails
    • Huge mis selling
  • Segment of 1000 is better than segment of one,the latter is more a marketing term
  • PRA consultation paper - UK - 2022 June on synthetic data
    • 11 million records - 90% was able to recoginizable with four additional data points
  • Insurers get marketing rights from the partners
  • Everything is long tail - ZA Tech