The comfort of data-driven analytics decisions for your credit union

In the realm of financial institutions, the credit union still offers more than its competition. Whereas credit unions were hampered by limited technological options in the past, new developments in data collection, integrations, and analytics are helping them compete with banks.

Recently, my wife and I were shopping for a mattress. We began the process by “trying out” mattresses by how they felt. My wife thought she preferred firm mattresses, while I thought I preferred soft ones. As we tried mattress after mattress, my wife would ask me, “what do you think about this one,” to which I would usually reply, “It feels pretty good to me.” We became frustrated by our search until we found a mattress store that comforted us with data.

The mattress store (Becker Furniture World) is locally owned with only 8 locations (does this sound familiar to your credit union?). They approached mattress shopping from a data-driven way. By using an analytic data model (developed by Sleep to Live Institute), they are using analytics to aid customers in their mattress investments through data sensors and user input. The data comforted us enough that we decided to purchase one of the mattresses it recommended.

 

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