Exclusive Resorts

Employee experience utilizing Salesforce Lightning and a custom member experience.

Process
Research
Strategy
Concepting
Design & UX
Dev Handoff
Retrospective

Duration
16 Weeks

Deliverables
Envision Readout

Problem

Exclusive Resorts set out to tackle two significant business challenges: the lack of continuity when it came to member knowledge transfer and modernizing each member's experience. Their travel concierges are privy to vast amounts of information about their customers and experience high turnover - without Salesforce Service Cloud, this data was easily lost. Exclusive wanted a more digitized approach that ensured net-worth individuals received exceptional accommodations along with perpetual access no matter if they were on vacation or skiing down a mountain slope.

Following a thorough assessment, my team’s strategy was implementing Sales and Service Cloud instances utilized internally, with an updated UI (Salesforce Lightning) focused on key employee workflows.

I was also able to orchestrate the sale of a small research and strategy engagement valued at $40K aimed towards understanding member needs and wants and creating a roadmap for success. To reach this end we conducted stakeholder interviews; performed remote and on-site research during vacations with users; developed personas as well as member journeys highlighting key stakeholders involved in our project; assembled strategies that created 'the art of the possible' vision which was then presented to executives resulting in another extensive investment worth $4M, to develop our solution.

After carefully mapping out a vision, my team transformed it into an interactive web and tablet experience for members. Using Service Cloud components as the foundation of our project, we orchestrated each step from concepting to prototyping to create high-fidelity mockups brought to life by development teams.

In the end, we created an employee experience using pre-release Lightning design components with Sales and Service Cloud.  One of the goals was to ensure the experience met employee needs, solved workflow issues, and balanced component customizations with the ability to upgrade Sales and Service Clouds several times a year, based on the platform’s release schedule.

We also created a custom member web experience for pre-vacation experiences, like booking restaurants and events, as well as ordering groceries, as well as a table experience while members were on-site, allowing immediate access to on-site concierges and updating.

Example: “Welcome Mat” Lightning component (out of the box)

Example; Avatars (mild customization)

Example: Chat window (out of the box)

Example: Date Picker (out of the box)

Example: Upcoming To-dos (out of the box)

Solution

Results

Example: Member Search (out of the box)

14% decrease in cost-to-serve during vacations

25% increase in member CSAT scores post-vacation

Executive Summary

Exclusive Resorts has provided high-end destination vacations for discerning members since 2002. Their exclusive club owns 500 luxurious $1M+ vacation homes around the world, from which their membership have access to a level of comfort and luxury similar to that of timeshare - but with even more privacy and prestige. To make this experience as seamless as possible for its valued members, they recently sought solutions through Salesforce in order to better store travel preferences so travelers' knowledge wasn't lost between Travel Concierges who plan every aspect of trips yet face frequent turnover rates. Additionally, by modernizing/digitizing how guests enjoy the best hospitality, money can buy throughout each stay at one of many opulent residences worldwide.

Roles
Creative Director
Research Lead

Exclusive Resorts was highlighted at Dreamforce Keynote in 2013

30% increase in value-added services during vacations

44% decrease in development time for Sales/Service Cloud, using Lightning components

Converted a $200k single license client to a $4m multi-cloud, multi license client.

23% decrease in concierge attrition

Example: Upcoming Visits carousal (mild customization)

Mobile

Example: Upcoming Visits by region (out of the box)

Example: Sales Pipeline (out of the box)

As part of the project, we built a mobile web version of the. member site, which allowed for key member workflows based on user research.