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Case: involving >1000 customers in co-creation

How an Italian multi-partner loyalty program involved its customers in co-creating new initiatives with the biggest ever virtual focus group.
"Synthetron has proved to be extremely effective in listening to our customers and in getting feedback and new ideas from them. I would have never imagined collecting so many insights in real time, directly from our customers in just 60 minutes!"  -- Head of Marketing & CRM

Situation

The Marketing team of an Italian multi-partner loyalty Program with > 10 million consumers and 80+ partners wanted to identify new insights for new initiatives and to improve the user experience.  They were looking for a way to actively involve their customers in this.

Approach

The team learned about Synthetron online dialogues and decided to use this innovative form of virtual focus group to actively involve their customers, listen to the ideas and suggestions and co-create with them new initiatives. The Synthetron Italy team organized one session with 1300 customers - the biggest (virtual) focus group ever! - and carried out an in-depth analysis of the results.

Results

    • The discussion enabled the Marketing team to validate quantitatively some of the actions already in their pipeline and to identify other new initiatives to put in place.
    • The discussion also confirmed the relationship and the expectations clients have towards the Program – not just from a rationale / features point of view, but also from a more insightful perspective.
    • And, last but not least, consumers really appreciated the Program's willingness to listen to their thoughts:
        • "I appreciated the possibility of giving advice to improve the program."
        • "I enjoyed to be able to express my ideas and see what others think about it."
        • "I like being an important part of business decisions."
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Case: addressing disappointing HR survey results

How a multinational organization used Synthetron's crowdsourcing method to address disappointing HR survey results.

Situation

The annual internal employee satisfaction survey produced disappointing results for “leadership” and “trust” measures. Management discussion led to the idea that by reorganising the organisation, most of these issues would be solved. However, they wanted to hear from the floor if this was really the case. What really matters to the employees?

Approach

Synthetron held a series of 8 Synthetron discussions segmented by management level and business unit/country. In the discussions participants were first asked the same poll question as in the survey for calibration, followed by a discussion of why to identify root causes. Next, the focus was on identifying the solutions and Key Success Factors. During the discussion, the hypothesis of re-organisation was tested.

Discovery

Synthetron identified a surprising set of root-causes. The main root cause was the decision making process in the organisation. In none of the discussions did the participants confirm that reorganisation was the way forward. 4 actions surfaced repeatedly as higher synthetrons (broadly supported statements) in all the discussions. The report gave management insights into what actions would have most impact and which were perceived less important. Management shared the report openly with the participants and held a set of global web meetings to share what actions were identified through the Synthetron session. In the end, no reorganisation took place. Rather, the decision process was streamlined and a campaign to strengthen empowerment was launched. The following year’s survey showed significant better results on trust and leadership.
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