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Spotlight Insights (CX)


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About Spotlight Insights

After collecting all your data, it can sometimes be overwhelming to determine where your company should focus its efforts. With spotlight insights, you can uncover how customer segments are responding to key metric questions. Simply choose what metrics and demographic breakouts you want to run, and Qualtrics will provide you a straightforward report highlighting key experience gaps.

Qtip: To use insights, you must be a Brand Administrator or a CX Administrator. You must also have edit access to the dashboard. Reach out to your XM Success Manager if you meet these criteria and do not have access to insights.
Qtip: This page refers to Spotlight Insights in CX Dashboard projects only.

Setting Up Insights

  1. In your dashboard, click Insights.
    clicking the Insights icon at the top of a CX dashboard
  2. Click Get Started.
    clicking get started on the insights landing page
  3. Choose outcome metrics you want to analyze. Fields should be mapped as number sets with recodes.
    Screenshot shows a modal that says, select outcome metrics

    Qtip: Right now, you cannot use custom metrics as outcome metrics.
    Example: These might be outcome metrics (such as NPS or Customer Satisfaction), or other important metrics you track (such as Agent Friendliness).
  4. If desired, click Add a key metric to add additional metrics to your comparison. You may add up to 3 metrics.
  5. Clicking Add a customer attribute lets you pick 2 to 5 attributes that might influence your key metrics and reflect your top priorities. These attributes should be either text set or text value types.
    Shows a modal that says, pick the customer attributes that you want to compare

    Qtip: It’s best to stick to attributes with a finite number of unique values. For example, there are so many postal codes you may not have enough responses per value to see meaningful results if you chose this field. Fields with 2000 unique values or more cannot be selected.
    Example: These could be customer attributes such as demographics (e.g. Gender, Region, Age Group), firmographics (e.g., Company size, Industry), or how how customers interacted with your company (e.g. Products purchased, Customer tenure, Number of support interactions).
  6. Choose a date range. This will determine the data included in the insights. You can choose from several preset date ranges or set a custom date range.
    choosing the date range and then generating insights

    Example: You’d like to see the impact of past product purchases on customer satisfaction for the last 90 days.
    Qtip: The date used here is based on the recorded date field. This cannot be changed to another date field.
  7. Click Generate insights when finished.
    Qtip: Your insights may take up to 30 minutes to calculate. Feel free to exit this page while we analyze your data – we’ll send you a notification when it’s ready!

If you need to edit these settings, simply click Edit in the top-right and make any desired changes. Please note that if you edit these settings, you will need to wait while we generate your new insights. There is only one set of insights per dashboard, so if you edit this content, it will be replaced for all dashboard users.

clicking edit at the top of the insights page

Once your insights have been generated, you can select which insights you want to view by using the Comparison dropdown at the top of the page.

using the compare filter to switch between insight comparisons

To change what metric or priority you are analyzing for, use the Metric dropdown at the top of the page.

In order to help you focus on the areas most promising of improvement, Qualtrics orders the insights list based on impact rank. This rank is the calculation of the number of survey respondents affected and the width of the experience gap. Therefore, large experience gaps that affect a large number of respondents will be displayed higher in the list than small experience gaps that affect only a small number of respondents. You can still use the page filters and sorting to view the insights in a different way.

To return to your dashboard, click the dashboard name in the navigation bar.

clicking the dashboard name in the top left corner

Insight Details

When you click on an insight, additional details will open in a pane to the right. The details pane will explain the insight in simple language with a chart.

Example: In the screenshot below, we see results for a B2C company’s insights. Customers who were 18-24 years old and living with a partner were more likely to recommend this company to a friend or colleague, because they rated higher on their NPS scores.
Screenshot of an insight that says "customers with the attributes age 18-24, martial status living with a partner" rated higher on NPS compared to all overall average metric
Example: In the screenshot below, we see results for a B2B company’s insights, meaning they sell services or products to other companies rather than directly to consumers. This B2B company segments their customers by industry. Here we see that customers from the Technology industry gave this B2B company a higher customer satisfaction score (CSAT) than customers in all other industries.
Screenshot shows an insight that says customers with attribute industry: technology rated higher for CSAT compared to all overall average metric

Subgroup Comparison

The Subgroups comparison contains demographic groups that we noticed showed a statistically significant difference from other groups we collected data from.

Image where subgroups comparison has been selected in the insights page

In the insight, you have the following attributes:

  • Experience gap: The difference between the subgroup’s score and the comparison group’s score. The raw scores for each can be found in the Metric column.
  • Comparison groups: The subgroup that is being analyzed and the group that the subgroup is being compared against. Note that the subgroup is excluded from the comparison group.
    Example: For example, let’s say our customers are from three possible regions: North America, EMEA, and APAC. If my subgroup is North America, then the comparison group is EMEA and APAC. Your comparison group will indicate which demographic is excluded.
  • Metric: The subgroup’s score for the selected metric. The comparison group’s score is found below this number
  • Responses The number of responses in the subgroup. The number of responses in the comparison group is found below this number.

Overall Metric Comparison

The Overall Metric comparison displays which subgroups have a statistically significant score compared to your key metric data as a whole. It’s important to note that the subgroup is compared against overall data, which includes the subgroup.

Image where overall metric has been selected in the insights page

In the insight, you can find the following attributes:

  • Experience gap: The difference between the subgroup’s score and the comparison group’s score. The raw scores for each can be found in the Metric column.
  • Comparison groups: The subgroup that is being analyzed and the group that the subgroup is being compared against (i.e., the entire company).
    Example: For example, let’s say our customers are from three possible regions: North America, EMEA, and APAC. If my subgroup is North America, then then the comparison group is North America, EMEA, and APAC (i.e., all possible regions).
  • Metric: The subgroup’s score for the selected metric. The comparison group’s score is found below this number
  • Responses The number of responses in the subgroup. The number of responses in the comparison group is found below this number.

Filtering Insights

This functionality is the same in CX Dashboard insights as it is in EX project dashboards.

See Filtering Insights for more information.

Sorting Insights

To sort your insights, click the header of the attribute you want to sort by. An arrow will appear next to the attribute indicating if it’s sorted in ascending or descending order.

Image of dropdown arrow exposing two sorting options for the experience gap header: sort ascending and sort descending

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