Case: a bank's app has 2.1 stars and rising usage
Monthly active users are up 30% year on year. The store rating is 2.1, and the top complaint is login failures. Branch traffic is unchanged. The head of digital wants to rebuild the app; the CFO wants to know what that buys.
An intermediate-level session of about 10 minutes. You join 3 other speakers already in the discussion. You get 90 seconds to prepare before it starts.
Rebuild the app is where a group lands in about ninety seconds, and it is the answer the case is designed to catch. Usage is up thirty per cent against a 2.1 rating, and those two facts together say the app is load-bearing rather than optional — people are using it because they must, and rating it honestly on the way out. Login failures being the top complaint points at something far narrower and cheaper than a rebuild, and the group that notices the gap between symptom and proposal is the one doing the work. Unchanged branch traffic is the third number, and it quietly undercuts the story that customers are being driven back to branches. Somebody has to hold the group to what the spend buys.
Angles worth taking
- The room will say rebuild within ninety seconds. That is the answer the case is built to catch.
- Rising usage next to a 2.1 rating means the app is compulsory, not loved. Say what follows.
- Login failures are narrow and cheap to fix. Ask why the proposal jumped straight to a rebuild.
- Flat branch traffic undercuts the driven-back-to-branches story. Someone should notice it.
- Name the number the spend is meant to move, or the group has agreed on a cost with no benefit.
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