4 Essential Automation Tips for Financial Service Providers
Blog: Bizagi Blog
“The stage is set
for FS automation and AI to move from what was, only a few years ago,
relatively vague concepts to bona fide, strategic business imperatives.” – Financier Worldwide
Magazine
Obviously,
automation is not new to the financial services industry. But as technologies
have matured in recent years, and with the emergence of artificial intelligence,
organizations across the globe are increasing their investments in intelligent automation
technologies.
Automation initiatives commonly aim to improve the customer experience, drive efficiency, take products to market faster and achieve or maintain regulatory compliance. To help you achieve those goals and overcome the challenges you meet along the way, this article sets out three areas that Bizagi has seen to be critical to success – demonstrated through the stories of customers across the globe.
Tip 1 – Integrate Everything to Better the Customer
Experience
Your customers don’t see departments,
channels or systems. They see you as one organization and they expect their
experience to reflect that. If not, they are increasingly happy to take their
business elsewhere. That’s why enhancing customer service is the number one
priority for banks, globally, according to PWC’s Retail Banking 2020 Report.
But developing a customer-centric business model is hard when faced with a myriad of legacy tech systems and disjointed customer data. So, what’s the solution? Old Mutual Bank took on this challenge by leveraging Bizagi as an agile orchestration layer. They wanted to achieve a 360-degree view of all customer interactions with tight integration with their legacy technology.
For Old Mutual, this resulted in a solution managing 3000 transactions a second, reducing customer-waiting times by 10x, massively increasing cross sell revenues and driving consistent increases in Net Promoter Scores month-on-month.
Watch the full
Old Mutual Bank Story:
Tip 2 – Use RPA
Bots to Accelerate the Mundane Tasks
We all know that financial institutions are burdened with manual work, especially for managing data and moving it between systems. When combined with deeper process orchestration from a system like Bizagi, RPA bots provide a fantastic rapid solution to reducing that mundane work and freeing employees up to complete higher value tasks.
One of the oldest financial services firms in the US, Citizens Bank launched an RPA project to drive efficiency in their business.
They have integrated RPA with their commercial lending platform and bots now
perform the work of over 40 full-time employees, saving them time and money. Today,
50% of their commercial lending platform is managed by RPA bots – from the on-boarding of customers to the
servicing and closing of the loan.
The bank has included robots within their organizational chart to illustrate
their roles and has framed pictures of all their robots that
complete processes hanging on the walls and a name the robot competition for
employees. It’s a fun way of personalizing the technology and making workers comfortable with the change.
Watch the full Citizens Bank Story:
Tip 3 – Carefully
Manage the Change With Your Employees
AgFirst Bank recognized that automation acceptance requires big cultural changes, so conscientiously took steps to ensure that they walked stakeholders through the new system. “Technology was not the biggest issue… it was the cultural change,” says Bala Sivankoil, VP and Director of Application Development.
“The process we automated is the bread and butter – entering loan
applications and approving them. Imagine 80% of your organization has to switch to a new way of doing things…there are going to be people who are not going to
want to change. There are going to be people who are lukewarm about the change,
and others who will be your ambassadors.”
Sivankoil advises that to drive change management, you should get buy-in from senior management, and make sure all employees understand the bigger picture. That means helping them to see how it will be beneficial to the business and help them personally by making life easier and driving growth. One of AgFirst’s 20 associations, a 1.2 billion dollar business, increased their loans portfolio by 40% in the first year using the new, automated loan origination process.
Watch
the full AgFirst Bank Story:
Tip 4 – Establish a Center of Excellence to Repeat Your Success
Meaningful organizational change is not driven by the automation of just
one process or department, although that is often where the project starts.
True success is defined by an organization’s ability to repeat successes across
the business.
Bancolombia is a fantastic example of this, with 1800+ processes automated, in use by 20,000+ employees and touching 10 million+ customers. Bancolombia’s objective was to develop a virtual workforce, combining human, robotic, cognitive and analytic capacities in order to provide a superior customer experience.
To ensure that they stay on-track to meeting this objective and maintain a high quality standard, they created a Center of Excellence. This CoE has helped the bank to launch over 1,800 processes in the last 10 years. Bancolombia now has over 300 functioning bots in the business, supporting 140 processes, saving employees over 18 million minutes of work a year. The deployment of RPA and RDA has significantly improved the customer experience, with 639 branches using automation. This has increased the efficiency of service time by 59% and freed over 515,000 hours in branch per year – an impressive result.
Watch the full Bancolombia Story:
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If you would like to find out more about how to embed automation technologies in your financial
services organization, download our free eBook: Become the Responsive Bank: How
Customer Obsessed Are You? and find out how to increase brand advocacy and customer
acquisition.
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This post features videos of presentations from Bizagi Catalyst 18. If you would like to hear more automation and digital transformation
success stories, register your interest now for
Catalyst 19, October 15-17 in Miami, Florida.
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