Enabling a Personalized and Digital Customer Experience (CX)

AARP

To meet the needs of an increasingly tech-savvy audience, AARP (nonprofit organization) realized the need to shift from 25 years of a direct mail strategy to a more personalized and digitalized customer experience. Using Gartner research and expert advisors, our client was able to achieve substantial CX improvement and contributed to $1.8M in cost savings across the organization.

Mission-critical priority

The SVP of Customer Experience needed to dramatically improve AARP customers’ digital experience, while also achieving $100,000 in cost savings.

How Gartner helped

Gartner provided comprehensive support via multiple inquiry calls, tools, and research that helped our client create a framework to organize its thinking, establish a 360-degree view of its customer and align its efforts to support a single customer journey. Additionally, with support from Gartner, the client was able to streamline processes, accelerate into a digital-first business faster and contribute to significant cost savings across the organization.

Business impact

With support from Gartner for Marketers, AARP successfully:

  • Developed a 360-degree view of its customers to enable personalized experiences

  • Implemented “journey manager” roles to create a single customer journey 

  • Achieved cost savings worth $1.8 million; exceeding the initial cost savings goal by 18x

Industry:
Nonprofit Organization Management

Revenue:
$1.6 billion

Employees:
1,800

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It [Gartner] feels more like a group of colleagues than a vendor or organization type of relationship…They have been in every step on the way with us, and it's really driven by them wanting us to succeed.

Jim Pendergast

SVP Customer Experience, AARP

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