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Prioritizing actions with business levers

4 Tasks

15 mins

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Beginner Pega Customer Decision Hub 8.6 English
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Scenario

The U+ Bank business team now understands how arbitration works when only artificial intelligence (AI) is used for prioritization.

However, every now and then the business needs to be in control of the arbitration process to promote certain actions or group of actions based on market conditions and external factors.

The business team notices that one of the offers is not presented frequently enough due to its low propensity as customers ignored it during the initial launch. However, due to an internal ad-hoc priority, the bank wants to boost the chances of one of the actions being selected as the top offer. The bank wants to present more relevant offers to customers based on not only behavior but also business priorities.

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

Role

Username

Password

Decisioning Analyst

CDHAnalyst

rules


Your assignment consists of the following tasks:

Task 1: Pick an offer with lower propensity value.

Use the adaptive model reporting, and check which active offer has the lowest propensity.

Task 2: Check behavior before changes.

Log in as Robert to the U+ Bank website and examine the priority and propensity using the Interaction history report.

Task 3: Enable business lever in arbitration.

In the Next-Best-Action Designer > Arbitration, enable Business levers > Action weighting.

Task 4: Set a business weight for the action.

Boost the priority of the lowest propensity action significantly by setting a business weight.

Task 5: Confirm your work.

Check the result on customer Robert, who has subject ID is 17, before and after the boosting.

Note: In practice, the boosting percentage depends on the specific use case. Often it would be a value between 0 and 100%. 100% boosting means a doubling of the priority. In the current U+ Bank scenario, Robert's lowest propensity offer is almost 7 times smaller, so you would need a boost of 600% to see an effect.

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 Pick an offer with lower propensity value

  1. Log in to Customer Decision Hub as Decisioning Analyst with User name CDHAnalyst using password rules.
  2. From the navigation pane on the left, click Intelligence > Prediction Studio to open Prediction Studio.
  3. In Prediction Studio, click Models to view the AI models.
  4. Click the Web_Click_Through_Rate model.
  5. To the right of the graph, click the Standard Card to hide it from the overview

 

Hide Standard card


The following list of active models is displayed.

 

Active models chart

 

 

Note: The Rewards Card offer is the one with lowest success rate, meaning lowest propensity.

2 Check behavior before changes

  1. From the exercise system landing page, click U+ Bank to launch the U+ Bank website.
  2. In the U+ Bank website, in the upper-right corner, click Log in to log-in as a customer.
  3. In the Username drop-down list, ensure Robert is selected, and then click Sign in.
  4. In the Customer Decision Hub, click Interaction History > Recent interactions.
    Access interaction history
     
    access recent interactions
  5. Note the propensity and priority of the offer that is displayed.
    Note: Though the result depends how many times you use the Robert profile, the top offer should be the Rewards Plus card with a propensity=priority= approx 0.81

3 Enable business lever in arbitration

  1. In Customer Decision Hub, from the navigation pane on the left, click Next-Best-Action > Designer.
    Navigate to Next-Best-Action Designer
  2. In the Next-Best-Action Designer, click Arbitration.
    Next-Best-Action Designer Arbitration
  3. In the Arbitration landing page, click Edit to modify arbitration settings.
    Arbitration formula
  4. In the Business levers section, on the right, turn on the switch to involve both AI and the business lever in action arbitration.
  5. Under Business levers, ensure that Action weighting is turned on.
    Enable Business levers
  6. At the top of the Arbitration landing page, click Save to save the changes to arbitration settings.
    Save Arbitration

4 Set a business weight for the action

  1. In the Next-Best-Action Designer, click Engagement Policy.
  2. In the Business structure pane, click the CreditCards group to view the group level settings.
  3. In the Offers section, click Rewards card, the offer that you identified in the first step, to open the action details.
    Open Rewards card action
  4. In the upper-right corner of the Rewards card details, click Check out to make changes.
  5. In the Details tab, under Next-Best-Action configuration, set the Business weight to 700 to boost the priority of this action by 700% during arbitration.
    Set business weight
    Note: In practice, the boosting percentage depends on the specific use case. The value is typically between 0 and 100%. 100% boosting means a doubling of the priority. In the current U+ Bank scenario, Robert's lowest propensity offer is almost 7 times smaller, so you would need a boost of 700% to see an effect.
  1. In the upper right, click Check in to save the changes to the action.
  2. In the Check-in comments field, enter a suitable check in comment when prompted.

Confirm your work

  1. From the exercise system landing page, click on U+ Bank to launch the U+ Bank website.
    Launch U Bank website
  2. In the U+ Bank website, in the upper-right corner, click Log in to log in as a customer.
  3. In the Username drop-down list, select Robert, and then click Sign in. The top offer, Rewards Card, is displayed.
  4. In the Customer Decision Hub, click Interaction History > Recent interactions to see the propensity and priority values. By how much is the Priority greater than the Propensity? (Priority / Propensity = ?). This is now higher than before you boosted the weight. This is because, in formula P * C * V * L, L is greater than (default value) 1.


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