redefining the role of
bank branch advisors
Sector: Financial services
Company: Banco de Credito del Peru (BCP)
Role: Single designer, organizer and facilitator
Date: 2019
THE CONTEXT
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I strategized and design a workshop for 15 stakeholders.
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The workshop was part of a large research project that aimed to define and design the right tools for employees.
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The workshop focused on the profile with the most pains and frustrations, and the challenge was to brainstorm solutions. that allow the bank to keep the promises made with branch advisors regarding employee experience and work routines.
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The 15 participants were split into 2 groups. I facilitated the activities for one of the teams.
BUILDING EMPATHY
The workshop began with an empathy phase, where participants got to understand "Milagros" (the branch advisor persona). Based on research information, I illustrated a persona to represent the needs, goals and design principles of the bank branch advisors. The persona was used for stakeholders to better emphasize with the main user group and to facilitate discussions about the needs, desires and contexts during a workshop. The objective was for participants to refer to this persona throughout the ideation process.
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"Milagros", the persona created to represent branch advisors.
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BRAINSTORMING SOLUTIONS
The participants went through 2 ideation loops:
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On the first loop, participants had to brainstorm solutions on post-its for a general How Might We (HMW) question.
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On the second loop, participants received different HMW questions that took the situation to extremes (exaggerating some attributes and reversing other core attributes).
Some of the participants throughout the workshop.
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HMWs to trigger the second round of ideation
After coming up with a long list of alternative solutions, each team of participants began prioritizing the initiatives on a Ease vs Impact Matrix. The participants had to identify the initiatives that represented quick wins and major projects. Afterwards, the initiatives from both teams synthesized and calibrated on a single matrix. The participants voted for their favorites among the quadrants with high impact.
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Ease and Impact Matrix with all the initiatives from the workshop.
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see the full research project on branch employees
How might we enhance the day-to-day journey of the bank's branch employees through the tools provided for them?
(before and during the COVID-19 pandemic)
see other WORKSHOPS
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