CDH Community Event: Effectively Managing Competing Business Priorities in BaU Operations

Robust governance and process are critical to driving a successful BaU (business as usual) operating model. In these sessions, Mark Davies, Sr. Director, Business Excellence, 1:1 Customer Engagement leads a panel of Pega experts including

  • Denise Treuil, Principle Marketing Decisioning Consultant
  • Regan Wong, Director, Product Management, Marketing Analytics
  • Oguz Cavli, Principal Decisioning Architect
  • Ritesh Mishra, Principal System Architect

in discussing how organizations can set up CDH governance, identify roles and responsibilities, and implement processes required to ensure successful BaU operations. The sessions also demonstrate the use of Value Finder and Scenario Planner to support these operations.

Watch a replay of either session below, the content in both is the same. The presentation is posted below and Q&A from the sessions can be found in the replies to this post. Please continue the discussion there by replying to the appropriate topic or replying to this post to add a topic!

Replay Session One:
https://players.brightcove.net/1519050010001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6270187983001

Replay Session Two:
https://players.brightcove.net/1519050010001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6270188331001

The Q&A from this session are posted as replies to this topic. Please continue the discussion there!

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The presentation slide deck is attached.

Effectively Managing Business Priorities vFINAL.pdf (1.32 MB)

What does BAU stand for?

How often do you recommend updating production data samples - every day? Once per week?

How do we define in Value Finder the the" under served" treshold? Is it based on the number of impressions or number of customers eligible?

Will there be a problem if Customer decides to retain the IH data for 12 to 26 months?

How do Eligibility, Applicability and Suitability conditions differ from each other?

Can we include any CDH rule for BAU changes using 1:1 ops manager e.g Data flows, Data transforms, Section rules, or paragraph rules used in treatments?

What does limited availability mean with respect to Scenario Planner?

Can you please speak to any potential application/system performance concerns we should keep in mind when running simulations?

BaU refers to business as usual or the ongoing operations after go live. It is actually not “as usual” because a digital transformation has taken place! But this should become the new normal.

These are generally configured to run daily.

Can one Next Best Action have multiple treatments (e.g. different text) for the same channel? (Based on certain business rules)

How do you avoid the NBA Execution Forum becoming a bottle neck? How does it fit with the aspiration to go live everyday?

How about using VBD to analyze action performance on production? Would you advise to do that?

As part of governance, do you have thoughts on how we can regulate the huge number of propositions we end up creating over time.

Is there any retention policy associated with IH Summaries in Cassandra?

When customer data is transferred to BoE environment can that be masked?

You can define the propensity threshold. If offers for a customer fall below the threshold, then the customer will be counted as underserved. By default, Value Finder assigns a threshold of the bottom 95%, but this value can be customized if required.

Eligibility is defined as when you will be eligible to get an offer (e.g. You need to be 18+ for getting a credit card). Applicability is defined as when a specific action/offer can be made to a customer (e.g. location based offers, customer meets account balance criteria etc.). Suitability ensures empathy in the actions (e.g. you don’t want to offer loan or a credit card to someone with bad credit).

If you have daily releases, then you can run the forum daily.