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Exploring next-best-action in a contact center

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Beginner Pega Customer Decision Hub 8.8 English
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Scenario

U+ Bank recently completed a project in its Pega Customer Decision Hub™ application for a contact center where customers who call the contact center receive offers for credit cards. Customers receive offers after Customer Decision Hub weighs the customer needs against business objectives to optimize decisions based on priorities set by the business manager.

A customer, Sara Connor, needs help with her account and clarification about her transaction. She begins an interaction with a customer service representative (CSR) to resolve a dispute transaction issue. After addressing the issue, the CSR presents a next-best-action recommendation to Sara.

Use the following credentials to log in to the exercise system:

Role User name Password
CSR CACSR password12345!
Decisioning architect DecisioningArchitect rules

Your assignment consists of the following tasks:

Task 1: Present a credit card offer

In Pega Customer Service™, simulate and accept a phone call with Sara Connor.

Present the next-best-action recommendation, a credit card offer, to the customer.

Task 2: Observe the customer profile for Sara

Get a clean snapshot of that customer's current state.

Task 3: Review the Next-Best-Action Designer configurations

Review the artifacts in the portal of Customer Decision Hub and the configurations created in the Next-Best-Action Designer:

  1. The Engagement policy tab of Next-Best-Action Designer, where all engagement policy rules are defined.
  2. The set of actions and treatments created for the Credit cards group.
  3. The Channels tab of Next-Best-Action Designer.

 

You must initiate your own Pega instance to complete this Challenge.

Initialization may take up to 5 minutes so please be patient.

Challenge Walkthrough

Detailed Tasks

1 Present a credit card offer

  1. On the exercise system landing page, click Pega CRM suite to log in to Customer Decision Hub.
  2. Log in to Pega Customer Service as a CSR:
    1. In the User name field, enter CACSR.
    2. In the Password field, enter password12345!.
  3. In the header of Customer Service, click New > Demo Screen Pops > Demo Pop - CONNOR to simulate a phone call with Sara Connor.
    simulating a phone call
  4. Click Accept to accept the incoming call.
    The composite view for Sara Connor is displayed.
    Accept a phone call
  5. In the lower-left corner, click the offer displayed.

The highest recommended action, a top offer, is presented to Sara Connor in the lower-left corner.
Due to system initialization, it takes time for the tasks and the offer to display. If you still do not see the offer loaded, initiate another interaction. Loading of the tasks and the offer is faster on subsequent interactions.
 

Top offer presented

 

Note: The top offer you see might not match with the top offer in exercise steps as the offer ranking is different in different exercise systems.
  1. In the Reject list, select Present next suggestion.
     
    Present next suggestion

    When a customer is not interested in the suggested top offer and wants to learn about the next suggestion, clicking Present next suggestion displays the second top offer for CSR to present to the customer.
  2. Click Accept to record a positive customer response.
  3. Click Submit to complete the offer signup.
  4. Click Close to complete the offer fulfillment.
  5. In the upper-right corner, click the user icon, and then select Log out to log out.

2 Observe the customer profile for Sara

  1. Log in to Customer Decision Hub as a Decisioning Architect:
    1. In the User name field, enter DecisioningArchitect.
    2. In the Password field, enter rules.
  2. In the upper-right corner, click the Reports icon, and then click Customer Profile Viewer.
    Customer Profile viewer
  3. In the Customer Profile Viewer window, in the Customer Name field, enter or select Sara Connor, and click View.
    View Saras profile
  4. Observe the details on the profile for Sara, such as the Customer ID, Email address, and risk profile.
    Customer details in CPV
  5. On the Overview tab, review the current state of the customer:
    1. In the Demographics section, review the details about Sara that are relevant to the purposes of the business, such as gender, age, and income, as shown in the following figure:
      Demographics in CPV
    2. In the Customer journeys section, confirm that the message No active journey for this customer is displayed
      Customer journeys are a sum of the experiences that your customers go through. Because there is not enough data available, the message is displayed.
      Customer journeys in CPV
    3. In the Suppressed actions section, confirm that the message No suppressed actions for this customer is displayed.
      Suppressed actions in CPV
    4. In the Recent interactions section, confirm that Sara received two credit card offers.
      In task 1, you logged in as a CSR and presented credit card offers to Sara. The Recent interactions reflects that information.
      Recent interactions in CPV
    5. Click an interaction to open the details.
    6. In the Interaction details dialog box, observe all the details of that interaction such as priority, propensity, and interaction time, as shown in the following figure:
      Interaction details in CPV
    7. Close the Interaction details dialog box.
  6. In the profile of Sara, click the Next best actions tab, and then set up the details to check the propensity:
    1. In the Direction list, select Inbound.
    2. In the Channel list, select Call center.
    3. In the Real-time container list, select NextBestAction.
    4. Select Show only decision results that will be delivered, and then click Make decision as shown in the following figure:
      Next best action decision in CPV
  7. On the All results tab, click Density > Full Content to display the view the full action names.
    full content
  8. Confirm that Sara is eligible for four credit cards:
    • Standard card
    • Rewards card
    • Rewards Plus card
    • Premier Rewards card
      The rank of the Rewards card is 1; as a result, the Rewards card is displayed as a top offer for the CSR to present to Sara, as shown in the following figure:
      NBA decision results in CPV

3 Review the Next-Best-Action Designer configurations

  1. In the navigation pane of Customer Decision Hub, click Next-Best-Action > Designer to open Next-Best-Action Designer.
    NBA Designer
  2. Click Engagement policy.
  3. In the Business structure area, in the Cross sell section, click Credit cards issue to view the engagement policy for the group.
    Cross sell credit cards group
  4. Expand Customer offers.
  5. In the Offers section, review the seven actions, as shown in the following image:
    cards in NBA Designer
  6. In the Offers section, click Standard card to see the action details.
  7. On the Standard card action form, click the Treatments tab.
  8. Expand the Standard card tile treatment, and then verify that one treatment is defined for the Standard card action, as shown in the following image:
    Agent assisted treatment
  9. Close the Standard card action.
  10. Optional: Verify that each action has one defined treatment.
  11. In Next-Best-Action Designer, click the Channel tab.
  12. Confirm that the Call center switch is on.
    Call center channel enabled

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