Reference no: EM132424254
Bank of America
- Bank of America caters its services to individual consumers, small and midsize businesses, and large corporations with a full range of banking, investment, asset management, and other financial products and services. As of 2008, Bank of America serves clients in 175 countries and has relationships with 98 percent of the US Fortune 500 companies and 80 percent of the Global Fortune 500 companies.
Marketing Issue and Marketing Research
- With Bank of America representing so many customers, it needed to provide a wider range of services to meet their needs. Bank of America realized that the customers wanted different things when it came to banking other than the "traditionally designed bank branch." Therefore, Bank of America conducted a study to understand its consumers, their lifestyles, and potential for customer segmentation in terms of investment products and service needs. The questionnaire that was used is provided here; the associated data collected can be downloaded from Blackboard.
Bank of America Annual Financial Services Questionnaire
Switching Financial Services Provider
Q1: During the past 12 months, have you or anyone in your household switched some assets from Bank of America to another?
- 0. No
- 1. Yes
- Overall Satisfaction
Q2: Your overall satisfaction with Bank of America is:
- Poor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Excellent
- Evaluation
Q3: The following set of statements refers to financial services providers. For each statement, please indicate to what extent Bank of America meets that requirement. To do this, please use a scale from 1 to 7, where a "1" means poor service, and a "7" means excellent service. Of course, you may use any number between 1 and 7 that best describes your evaluation.
- Q3_1: performance of investment
- Q3_2: ability to resolve problems
- Q3_3: online service offered
- Q3_4: quality of advice
Q4: How would you rate the advantage to you of using Bank of America rather than other financial services providers?
- No advantage at all _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A very big advantage
Importance
Q5: Following is a series of statements about the importance of a variety of services. Please indicate how important they would be to you. To do this, please use a scale from 1 to 7, where a "1" means not important at all, and a "7" means extremely important. Of course, you may use any number between 1 and 7 that best describes your evaluation.
- Q5_1: depth of products and services to meet the range of your investment needs
- Q5_2: online services offered
- Q5_3: multiple providers' products to choose from
- Q5_4: quality of advice
- Q5_5: knowledge of representatives or advisors you deal with
- Q5_6: representative knowing your overall situation and needs
- Q5_7: degree to which my provider knows me
Demographics
These next questions are about you and your household and will just be used to divide our interviews into groups.
Q6: Are you ...?
Q7: What is your retirement status?
- 1. Retired
- 2. Semi-Retired
- 3. Not Retired
Conclusion and Recommendations
- 1. What would you recommend that Bank of America do in order to continue to grow?
- 2. If the survey conducted by Bank of America were to be conducted in a non-US country in which you have a career interest, how should it be conducted?