Customer Insight (Virtual Classroom)

Data and Marketing Association UK Ltd

The meaning of insight and its relationship with business success

• The evolution of marketing and how insight needs to move with it
• The influence of digital on data (quality, quantity, speed etc.)
• The influence of digital on marketing decisions (product, price, channel, communication etc.)
• The relationship between insight and knowledge management

What customer insight covers

• How many users and customers have you got? What is their value? What services/product do they buy/use?
• Where do they come from? What is their journey like? What causes them to come, or to leave? How often do they come into contact with you? With your competitors? When do they get in touch?
• Who are they? What is their history of interactions with you? From which devices/sites/apps? Is there a pattern? How do they compare with other users? What is their attitude towards your channels and brands?

Developing customer insight

• The main sources of offline insight - CRM, brand, product, channel analytics, research
• Sources of online insight - web and app data and its analysis; social insight
• Insight from partnerships - distributors, aggregators and affiliates
• How analysis turns data into insight, and how this varies on and offline; how to create combined insight
• Integrating multichannel data to produce a picture of multichannel journeys

Applications of customer insight

• Planning
• Managing and optimising the online/offline marketing mix
• Using insight for testing

Planning and managing your insight capability and activity

• The stages of development of insight - a maturity model
• The diffusion cycle for analytical and insight innovations
• Identifying where you are and where you need to be and prioritising the development of insight
• Developing a feasible, cost-effective, innovative, future-proof competitive plan
• Processes for managing customer insight - day to day and strategically
• Governance and data quality management

Technology

• Main types of solution in data management and analytics
• Integrating solutions
• Outsourcing

Next steps

• Where are you now?
• What are your priorities?
• How to meet them

During this time when it’s essential to keep our physical distance, it’s just as important to maintain connections, education and ambition.

The IDM Virtual Classroom is face-to-face, peer-to-peer learning – in the digital world. It lets you keep learning, wherever you are, and to connect with others, no matter the distance.

The IDM’s Virtual Classroom offers:

• An interactive classroom environment
• Peer-to-peer collaboration
• An engaging platform experience
• Practical learning through hands-on exercises
• Online access anywhere you can get an internet connection

Courses are structured in a time friendly format consisting of three to four sessions per day, broken up into 60 to 90 minutes of learning, instead of the conventional approach of listening to lectures and notetaking.

Before starting your course, you’ll receive joining instructions outlining any technical requirements, plus a unique login link via Zoom.

This course is designed for marketers or managers with responsibility for developing and implementing a customer insight strategy.