This project in 2023 was about how the company sells mobile services and products to Small to Medium sized businesses across the UK. The company wanted to increase the number of digital orders and increase digital channel share for its upgrade mobile orders by redesigning the digital journey. 

Client
Date
9.1.23
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Increasing Mobile Digital Upgrade Orders

The Challenge

The customer journey online to place an order was inefficient and manual through parts of the system. In 12 weeks the goal was to proof that we could increase the number of semi automated orders coming through and reduce the number of call backs to customers.

My role

  • Evaluate and understand the scope and constraints of the current as-is journey from how a customers learns about upgrading through to upgrading their mobile contract.
  • Lead on the creation of a working proof of concept to prove that we could create semi automated orders and increase digital conversion.
  • Connect customer outcomes to business outcomes for upgrading by understanding stakeholders and data
  • Influence and show the return on investment with key stakeholders in business, digital and legal teams to improve organisational understanding and alignment
  • Identify further ongoing digital opportunities around digital conversion and automation

Scope

Research and creating as-is and to-be journeys
  • Surveyed and collected data from all stakeholders involved. Finding what touchpoints and pain points were across different channels of the business.
  • Identifyed opportunities to develop future state  
Modelling Conversion Funnel & POC Success Metrics
  • Created data model for how many customers currently upgrade to create digital funnel metrics.
Designing and testing concepts
  • Designed future to-be journey which matched with our technology constraints.
  • Created testing briefs for UI designs which were tested with customers
  • Developed a feasible with marketing, technology, legal and product teams in the 12 week timeline.
  • Developed success metrics required to satisfy expectations of effectiveness and effeciency.

Results

  • Increased online upgrade conversion from 0.16% to 22%  
  • Successful launched POC on time in 12 weeks to existing customers.

Outcomes after project

  • Proof of concept was scaled up to 50% of all upgrade/resign customers in next quarter.
  • Automated ~3000 orders in Q3 2024 with zero agent involvement  
  • Proof of concept drove a change in a change in content management system which saved business £704K per year and drove improved productivity
  • Identified automation pain points and opportunities for new technology stack plans