Reimagine your commercial and customer experience strategy for excellence and top-line growth
We take an AI-first, and human-centred approach to craft tailored commercial, sales & marketing and customer experience strategies to uncover actionable insights and drive business excellence. Leveraging our design thinking methodology, we work closely with our clients to bring these strategies to life.
Hot topics
Generative AI
Generative AI could inject trillions of dollars into the global economy by 2025. It could transform how organizations are identifying, understanding, and engaging with their customers.
GenAI has potential to enhance customer experience and loyalty, by indicating the right service to the right customer at the right time, to improve knowledge of the customer and to increase sales and marketing cost efficiency and effectiveness.
Next Best Action (NBA)
NBA is an AI powered capability which creates personalised customer experiences and meaningful engagement through sequencing of relevant content through appropriate, preferred channels.
This enables companies to become customer-centric and drive efficient marketing automation, effectively resulting in 20-30% improved revenues potentially. It also enables companies to better cross- and upsell and the reduce cost of acquisition of customer.
Omni-channel strategy & enablement
We enable brands to establish a comprehensive strategy for seamless customer engagement across channels, both online & offline and improve customer engagement & revenues.
This approach involves identifying early business opportunities, selecting suitable technology providers, developing a robust data strategy, and overseeing the solution's design and implementation.
Services
Build a better relationship with your customers
Transform into a customer-driven organisation and create closeness. With the help of our three core offerings you can make change real and lift your products and services to a new level.
Commercial and product strategy
Deep-dive into the world of product portfolios and benefit from our comprehensive commercial and product lifecycle management services. We specialise in tailoring pricing, promotion, and channel selection strategies to achieve optimal market reach and uptake. We ensure that all strategies are executed with precision for maximum value realisation – complemented by our expertise in demand forecasting analysis.
For those in the pharmaceutical sector, we offer robust capabilities to meet your unique needs. From navigating the intricacies of health technology assessment to creating integrated digital health solutions, we've got you covered. Our expertise spans health policy, health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), patient advocacy, Market Access, and ecosystem engagement to ensure your product launch and execution is nothing short of excellent.
Key focus areas
All industries
- Product portfolio and lifecycle management
- Pricing and promotion strategy
- Channel strategy
- Demand forecast analytics
- Execution and value realisation
Pharma-specific capabilities
- Market access
- Health technology assessment
- Digital health integrated solutions
- Health policy and HEOR
- Patient advocacy and ecosystems engagement
- Strategy and execution excellence
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Sales & marketing strategy and transformation
Customers are expecting seamless experience across digital and human channels, personalized communication and prefer brands aligned to their values. Disruption of traditional business models and economic turmoils are putting pressure on the front office to transform the operating model to lead the change and achieve a quick return on the investment.
Our expertise helps clients to design their omni-channel marketing strategy, define the most effective routes-to-market, achieve sales execution excellence and enable customer success. We partner with our clients in:
- defining the right strategy,
- executing the transformation with agility leveraging the best-of-breed front-office technology market solutions and
- achieving the expected benefits through managed services.
Our advisory relies on a blend of strategic approach and proven delivery, change management and business process management methodologies.
Key focus areas
- Business model innovation
- Digital marketing and social media strategies
- Brand management and content management
- Marketing ROI optimization
- Digital and omni-channel marketing
- Pricing and margin optimization
- Sales channels optimization
- Lead to Order process and operating model
- Sales performance management
- Customer success management
- Technology enablement (CRM, Pricing, CPQ, Order Management, Contract Lifecycle Management) leading ecosystem partners implementation
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Paolo Gatti
Customer experience insights and transformation
Customer centricity is at the heart of today’s business. Our services encompass end-to-end customer engagement transformation, ensuring that every touchpoint reflects your brand's core values. We provide a structured framework for your CX strategy, backed by a customer-centric operating model.
Our framework allows you to build a 360-degree customer view offering you unparalleled insight into your customer base. We enable you to venture into the next generation of customer insights, leveraging the power of AI to provide the sales team with recommendations on the Next Best Action, offer, and channel to engage with your customers and prospects. Our loyalty management expertise ensures that your customers stay engaged and happy. This will fuel top-line growth, accelerate the return on marketing investments (ROMI), improve customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores, and drive cross-selling and upselling.
The framework is based on the robust data foundation such as Data Lake and Data Warehouse with appropriate data governance and management principles in place. To support these core functions, we emphasise strong operating models, self-service business intelligence (BI), proactive change management, and adaptable strategies to ensure a smooth transformation journey, complemented by our managed services.
Key focus areas
- End-to-end customer experience transformation
- Customer 360-degree view
- AI-driven Next Best Action
- Loyalty management & churn analytics
- Customer data platforms (CDP, data lake, data warehouse, analytics & reporting)
Supporting elements
- Target operating models
- Governance structures
- Change management and adoption strategies
- Managed services
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Maciej Przybysz
"Solving important business challenges requires two key factors: the right mindset and state-of-the-art technology solutions. PwC is the partner you can trust to successfully master your digital transformation and to launch a new era for your company."
What our clients say
Financial services
A multinational reinsurance company wants to develop and implement a clean and systematic market cultivation approach that enables a targeted and individual end-to-end customer experience across all touchpoints. One of the key challenges was the complexity and diversity of the client’s global organisation.
Read how we developed a marketing playbook with tangible and ready to use measures to create an immediate impact in the market.
"Marketing transformation is more than taking marketing activities to a new level and providing tailor-made customer journeys. It’s about putting people centre-stage. Only a change in mindset delivers sustainable results."
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Michael Plassmann
Pharma and Life Sciences
Our client, an internationally active pharmaceutical company, is aiming to set up the structure and new organisational processes needed to enter the European market with an innovative drug. The key challenge was to commercialise a new pharmaceutical product in a rapidly changing industry.
Read how we developed a roadmap and the necessary tools for a successful implementation phase.
"PwC helped us develop our understanding of the labeled indication market in Europe. They showed us how to optimally access this market and with which organizational setup, manpower and skillset. Their analysis provided us with a clear plan on how to achieve our growth targets."
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Lingli He
Non-profit organisations (NPO)
To meet the new demands of their stakeholders, NPOs must innovate their offerings, and they need a comprehensive IT infrastructure, efficient applications, and an agile approach to data.
Read how our solution drives the digital transformation of an NPO.
How can you transform the donor experience to the better? Dive into our case study to see how the small Swiss NGO 'LZ Weihnachtsaktion' redefined its Christmas fundraising campaign with a modern CRM system here.
"A key component of a successful NPO solution is to involve employees in the optimisation process and to show them the benefits that will accrue to them and their organisation."
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Michael Plassmann
Industrial manufacturing and automotive
Digitial automobile marketing case study
Our customer, a producer of premium passenger cars, wants to digitise its marketing with the help of salesforce. One of the challenges was to fit agile teams and processes into the engineering-driven corporate culture of the automotive manufacturer.
Read about our agile and closed DevOps approach.
Seamless customer experience case study
Mergers and acquisitions present companies with the opportunity to rethink the current setup of customer-facing teams. Often, a cultural and operating shift is necessary to increase customer centricity.
In this case study we show you how we helped our client improve employee productivity, streamline customer experience, and increase revenue growth.
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Consumer Markets
In today’s business reality, customers are in control. What does this mean for your business strategy? You need to provide your customers a seamless and fully digital experience. And why should you choose us as your trusted transformation partner? Because we have been through the same experience ourselves.
Read how we turned our marketing into a business driver by leveraging new tools and technologies, engaging and training our people, and adapting our strategy and processes.
"We drive commercial impact aligned to the firm’s purpose by creating outstanding individual experiences that bring our people and our clients together."
Healthcare
We advise the Swiss healthcare industry by providing data-based solutions designed to improve service quality and boost margins. We support you in all aspects of your own transformation.
While their ultimate goal is to identify illnesses more quickly and optimise treatment methods, hospitals and other healthcare facilities also have to navigate a complex world of fees and successfully overcome financial challenges. We help you cut costs and implement more efficient processes and procedures.
At PwC, we help our clients analyse patient data in real time. This results in new insights, greater efficiency and more satisfied patients.
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Philip Sommer
Launch your Customer Transformation with us.
PwC supports you in your entire transformation journey – from strategy and execution to platform implementation and integration. Make transformation real.
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Our alliance partners in transformation
Our alliance ecosystem offers a new equation for better results
Your business transformation needs are the reason why we have developed strong alliances with some of today’s leading technology companies, like SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft. By combining PwC’s know-how and experience with our partners’ technology, we can help you solve your most critical business issues. Whether your focus is on moving to the cloud, speeding up innovation, or transforming your business – PwC and our partners are here to assist you.
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