Empathy is
Enterprise infrastructure.

Empact transform performance by embedding stronger human understanding across products, platforms, and operating models.

Framework

Empact Performance Model™

Our proprietary framework for customer value transformation embedding
stronger human understanding across the enterprise.

Strategy rooted
in human
understanding.

Unlock latent value and reduce
execution risk.

Strategy is applied through value propositions that shape products around real customer behaviour, needs and context.
This creates value headroom
(typically 1.3-2x lifetime value)
and reducing leakage and investment risk.

Platforms built to sense, learn
and adapt.

Lower cost-to-serve and accelerate
product performance.
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Technology and operating processes detect human signals early and adapt in real time.
This enables 15-40% cost reduction,
2-3x faster product maintenance capacity,
and materially lower cost of ownership.

Servicing operating
models deliver and build trust.

Improve retention, advocacy and
regulatory confidence.

Intent and emotional context translate into consistent, good and traceable outcomes.
Trust indicators typically improve 20-50%
and strengthen auditable confidence.

Empathy as Enterprise Infrastructure

"Enterprise Empathy enables organisations to understand, learn from and respond to human context.

AI can now embed this at scale across products, platforms and operating models, turning empathy into enterprise infrastructure for stronger performance and competitive value."

Empact
Performance
Model™ for
value creation.

Propositions  |  Platforms  |  Operating Models

The Empact Performance Model™ helps organisations embed stronger human understanding across propositions, platforms and operating models.

Within it, our Lived Value Index™ decodes signals and assesses maturity to diagnose where lived customer value is won, lost or at risk, and where the right application of AI can create, strengthen or extend value.

AI-enabled product and value innovation.

Design and evolve products and experiences that are dynamic and adapt to changing customer needs and context - unlocking revenue, stronger retention or greater exit value as expectations and regulation shift.

Lower enterprise cost-to-serve.

Identify and reinvent where services and AI systems should simplify, automate or augment delivery around real human need, reducing failure demand and operational cost, as well as cost-of-ownership.

Stronger colleague confidence and AI-enabled productivity.

Assess maturity and enable frontline teams and leaders to adopt AI confidently; managing cognitive overload, and improving augmented judgement and productivity.

Better choice and outcomes under complexity.

Identify and strenghten how decisions and choice architecture affect customers, colleagues and AI systems, improving outcomes, confidence and traceability.

Trusted digital and AI-enabled experiences.

Assess, simplify, reinvent and assure digital and AI-enabled experiences and journey architecture to improve efficiency and ensure outcomes are fair, transparent and understandable.

Earlier detection of friction, needs and vulnerability.

Assess existing behavioural, sentiment and contextual signals, and identify where further signals should be surfaced to enable earlier intervention and reduce harm, failure demand and avoidable cost.
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Market signals.

Leaders are already embedding stronger human-context into propositions, platforms and operating models - increasingly using AI to improve experience, performance and value.

Emotional intelligence within supply chains.

Zara combines real-time demand data, returns behaviour, and local context and sentiment analysis to adapt stock and store experience rapidly.

AI reduces customer frustration caused by mismatch between availability, sizing, and expectation.

Why it matters: Empathy can be further embedded into supply decision, not just customer service.

Empathetic outreach.

Ping An in China integrates health records, behavioural signals and life events across insurance, healthcare and banking.

AI flags change in health risk or stress and adapts outreach, care navigation and cover guidance.

Why it matters: Empathy is embedded cross an ecosystem and end-to-end journey, not a product.

Motivation and emotive aware digital journeys.

Nike's apps adapt coaching, messaging and challenges based on engagement drop-off, injury signals and fatigue patterns.

The system adjusts tone and cadence rather than pushing harder.

Why it matters: Emotional readiness can be treated as first-class input into experience.

Wealth x health convergence.

Ecosystems across financial services, wellness and healthcare providers are becoming more closely integrated.

Partnerships between firms such as Lloyds Banking Group and private healthcare integrate health, wellbeing and financial services into a single ecosystem. Customers receive joined up support across life, health and financial needs.

Why it matters: There are further material opportunities to expand ecosystems and enrich customer value across sectors.

Asynchronous empathy.

NatWest have partnered with OpenAI to boost its AI assistant 'Core' and internal support tools. By using generative AI to improve digital conversations and fraud monitoring.

NatWest also holds equity in 'Serene' that helps detect early signs of financial stress from customer behaviour and pattern changes.

Why it matters: AI is enhancing clarity, reducing friction and improving trust across millions of everyday interactions.

Proactive empathy in
AI-supported conversations.

UK wealth managers, including St James's Place, are using AI to analyse customer calls and surface linguistic indicators of for advisers to act on.

By flagging emotional cases and context changes in real time, advisors can tailor responses rather than following a one-size fits all service route, addressing situational context and allowing them to engage more effectively.

Why it matters: Augmented support of colleague specialists are becoming more emotionally aware and intelligent.

Explore the value
opportunity.

Explore where customer value is won, lost or at risk and what to change, mitigate or accelerate.

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