Analyzing customer distribution using Pega Value Finder
2 Tasks
30 mins
Beginner
Pega Customer Decision Hub '23
English
Scenario
U+ Bank is currently cross-selling on the web by showing various credit cards to its customers.
They want to run a value finder simulation in Pega Customer Decision Hub™ to check if there are any under-engaged customers and customers without any actions, so that they can serve them better.
Use the following credentials to log in to the exercise system:
Role | User name | Password |
---|---|---|
Next-Best-Action Designer | NBADesigner | rules |
Your assignment consists of the following tasks:
Task 1: Create and execute a value finder simulation
Create and execute a value finder simulation for the Grow issue and Credit cards group and the Web channel. Use the SampledCustomers_Inbound data set as the audience.
Task 2: Inspect the simulation results
Inspect the result of the simulation by answering the following questions.
- How many customers are left without actions after the system applies arbitration conditions?
- What percentage of customers are well-served in the first Customer group from the Under-served customers after the suitability category?
- How many customers receive no actions due to the suitability conditions?
Challenge Walkthrough
Detailed Tasks
1 Create and execute a value finder simulation
- On the exercise system landing page, click Pega Infinity to log in to Customer Decision Hub.
- Log in to Customer Decision Hub as a Next-Best-Action Designer:
- In the User name field, enter NBADesigner.
- In the Password field, enter rules.
- In the navigation pane of Customer Decision Hub, click Discovery > Value Finder to open the Value Finder landing page.
- Click Create new to create a new value finder simulation.
- In the Create simulation dialog box, configure the following information:
- Click the Scope field, select Grow / Credit cards.
- In the Channel filed, enter or select Web.
- In the Audience field, enter or select SampledCustomers_Inbound.
- In the Name field, click the pencil icon, and then enter Value Finder and submit.
- Click the name of the simulation to view the simulation results.
Once the run is complete, the system displays the results.Note: The Monte Carlo data set consists of mock data. Therefore, different simulation runs will have different results.
2 Inspect the simulation results
Question: How many customers are left without actions after the system applies arbitration conditions? |
- On the Customer engagement chart, note the numbers for the Receiving no actions, Receiving only irrelevant actions, Receiving at least 1 relevant action, and Receiving only new actions customer distributions.
Question: What percentage of customers are well-served in the first Customer group from the Under-served customers after the suitability category?
- Expand the Only irrelevant actions after suitabillity customer category to inspect the information.
Note that the recommendation and the top discovered customer groups identified by the system. Note the number of customers filtered out for each customer group. - Click View.
Note that you do not see any groups identified by the system because of the low number of customers receiving only irrelevant actions. Similarly, you can also inspect the Only irrelevant actions after applicability and suitability customer categories, if available.
Note: To see what groups can be discovered by the system, you must increase the simulation propensity in the Value Finder settings. This results in an increased number of customers with only irrelevant actions. Best practice is to keep the simulation propensity to the recommended value, but for training purposes it needs to be increased. - Click Cancel.
- Click the gear icon to the right of Help button.
- In the Value Finder settings window, increase the simulation propensity to 40%.
It is recommended to use the simulation propensity calculated by the system. However, for training purpose, the simulation propensity value is increased. - Click Submit.
- Expand the Only irrelevant actions after suitability customer category to understand the recommendations and the top discovered customer groups after the Propensity threshold modification.
The number of customers in this category has increased as a result of increasing the simulation propensity. - Click View.
- Note the number of customers filtered out per customer group.
Tip: The accuracy of the first customer group, A, is 96.6%. As a result, the percentage of well-served customers in group A is 100 – 96.6 = 3.4%.
- On the right, click Manage Descriptive fields to view the fields used by the system to categorize the customers into different groups.
- Close the window.
Question: How many customers receive no actions due to the suitability conditions? - In the Customer categories section, note how the system identifies the recommendations for the current engagement policy conditions.
Note: The recommendations help you identify when the customers are filtered out from receiving an action.Tip: 355 customers are not served due to suitability conditions.
- Expand the No actions after suitability customer category to view more details.
- In the Analysis of engagement policies section, click the Start simulation button to view which suitability policies customers are not passing across groups and actions.
- Once the simulation is complete, click View.
- Click Grow / Creditcards to view action-level policies that the customers are not passing.
- Inspect the table to see how many customers do not receive an action after the engagement policies are applied.
- Click Rewards Plus card, and then expand Customer Grow / Creditcards / RewardsPlusCard to view the specific suitability policies that the customers are not passing.
- Click Add to Value summary to add a specific engagement policy to the Value summary.
- In the upper-right corner of the Value Finder screen, click Value summary.
Note that there is now a higher potential increase of customers that receive at least one action. By adding engagement policies to the Value summary, you are implying a change in that policy that can potentially result in the increase shown in the Receiving no actions section. - Expand the Customer Grow / Creditcards / RewardsPlusCard section.
- Click Download all as .pdf to save all the policies that are added to the summary.
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