When AI truly understands our customer data, we’ll deliver on true personalization

Imagine a world where AI doesn’t just adjust the tone of a message to ‘witty’ or ‘professional,’ but adds tone and context based on customer data.

When AI truly understands our customer data, we’ll deliver on true personalization

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How AI will improve our personalization

When AI truly understands our customer data, we’ll deliver on true personalization

Customer context

  1. AI delivers the ability to scale personalized research.  A whole series of martech scraping tools do this for us today.
  2. AI has the ability to make sense of unstructured data like emails, transcripts, discussions and more. Large language Models (LLMs)  can synthesize all of this unstructured data.
When AI truly understands our customer data, we’ll deliver on true personalization

What becomes possible when we enable ‘Customer Tone’

When AI truly understands our customer data, we’ll deliver on true personalization

Hyper-based optimism

  • Will we start on a roadmap to train models to reflect customer context and tone?
  • Will we take the incremental human cost that we’re going to save through AI and use it to give humans the time to truly personalize communications?

 
 
 

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About the author

Milton Hwang

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Milton Hwang is currently a strategic consultant (Mission MarTech LLC) and supports clients through a unique combination of strategy, operations, and technology experiences. He enjoys being a cross-functional translator and can provide advisory services in parallel with hands-on implementation and support. 

In addition to consulting, Milt is also a passionate higher education instructor. He is currently a Program Leader for Kellogg’s Graduate School of Management Executive Education, and is teaching Digital Marketing at UW-Madison.

With 30 years of leadership experience, Milt has focused on aligning service, marketing, sales, and IT processes around the customer journey. Milt started his career with GE, and led cross-functional initiatives in field service, software deployment, marketing, and digital transformation. Following his time at GE, Milt led marketing operations and customer experience teams at Connecture, HSA Bank and MSI Data, and he has always enjoyed being labeled one of the early digital marketing technologists. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from UW Madison, and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management.

In addition to his corporate leadership roles, Milt has been focused on contributing back to the marketing and regional community where he lives, and he supports multiple non-profit boards. 

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