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To help people live healthier lives by creating a modern, high-performing health system through integrated experiences connecting data and care

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To help people live healthier lives by creating a modern, high-performing health system through integrated experiences connecting data and care

Strengths

  • BRAND: Strong trusted healthcare brand with 95% recognition
  • SCALE: Largest US health insurer serving 50M+ members
  • DATA: Extensive healthcare data analytics capabilities
  • OPTUM: Integrated healthcare delivery system growing at 15%
  • DIVERSITY: Broad portfolio across insurance and care delivery

Weaknesses

  • DIGITAL: Fragmented digital patient experience across platforms
  • SEGMENTATION: Ineffective targeting of key customer segments
  • INTEGRATION: Siloed marketing efforts between UHC and Optum
  • CONTENT: Inconsistent messaging across customer touchpoints
  • ANALYTICS: Limited marketing attribution and ROI measurement

Opportunities

  • PERSONALIZATION: AI-powered personalized health journeys
  • VALUE-BASED: Shift to value-based care marketing narratives
  • TELEHEALTH: Growing demand for virtual care solutions
  • PARTNERSHIPS: Collaboration with tech firms on health platforms
  • EDUCATION: Consumer demand for health literacy resources

Threats

  • COMPETITION: Tech giants entering healthcare space
  • REGULATION: Changing healthcare policies and compliance
  • PERCEPTION: Public scrutiny over healthcare costs and profits
  • SECURITY: Data privacy concerns affecting trust
  • DISINTERMEDIATION: Direct-to-consumer healthcare models

Key Priorities

  • DIGITAL: Create seamless, integrated digital experience
  • PERSONALIZATION: Develop AI-driven personalized engagement
  • NARRATIVE: Strengthen value-based care brand positioning
  • MEASUREMENT: Implement advanced marketing analytics framework
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To help people live healthier lives by creating a modern, high-performing health system through integrated experiences connecting data and care

UNIFIED EXPERIENCE

Create a seamless digital healthcare journey

  • PLATFORM: Launch integrated member experience platform across all business units by Q3 with 85% feature parity
  • ADOPTION: Achieve 40% adoption rate of new digital platform within 60 days of launch across all segments
  • SATISFACTION: Improve digital experience NPS from 42 to 55 by end of Q2 through journey optimization
  • TOUCHPOINTS: Reduce member digital touchpoints by 35% while increasing engagement metrics by 25%
PERSONALIZE

Deliver hyper-relevant care journeys

  • AI ENGINE: Deploy AI personalization engine that delivers tailored content to 75% of digital members by Q3
  • ENGAGEMENT: Increase member engagement with personalized health recommendations by 40% vs. control group
  • SEGMENTS: Develop and implement 12 new behavioral personas with targeted engagement strategies by Q2
  • TESTING: Establish continuous optimization framework with 25+ weekly A/B tests and 5-day implementation cycle
VALUE NARRATIVE

Lead the value-based care conversation

  • CONTENT: Produce comprehensive value-based care content library with 50+ assets across formats by Q3
  • THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Secure 15+ top-tier media placements on value-based care transformation by Q2
  • PROVIDERS: Enroll 5,000 providers in value-based care education program with 80% completion rate
  • PERCEPTION: Improve brand association with 'value-based care leader' from 23% to 35% in market surveys
MEASURE IMPACT

Connect marketing to business outcomes

  • ATTRIBUTION: Implement multi-touch attribution model covering 90% of marketing touchpoints by end of Q2
  • ROI: Increase measurable marketing ROI by 25% through optimization based on attribution insights
  • DASHBOARDS: Deploy real-time marketing performance dashboards to 100% of marketing team by Q2
  • PREDICTIVE: Develop 3 predictive models for member acquisition, retention, and engagement by end of Q3
METRICS
  • Net Promoter Score (NPS): 65
  • Member Digital Engagement Rate: 58%
  • Marketing-Attributed Revenue: $3.2B
VALUES
  • Integrity - Honoring commitments and never compromising ethics
  • Compassion - Caring for each person's unique needs
  • Relationships - Building trust through collaboration
  • Innovation - Inventing the future and learning from the past
  • Performance - Demonstrating excellence in everything we do
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Align the learnings

UnitedHealth Group Marketing Retrospective

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To help people live healthier lives by creating a modern, high-performing health system through integrated experiences connecting data and care

What Went Well

  • GROWTH: UnitedHealthcare added 1.6M new members, exceeding targets
  • REVENUE: 13% year-over-year revenue growth to $99.8B in Q4 2023
  • OPTUM: Optum Health revenue per consumer increased 23% year-over-year
  • DIGITAL: 42% increase in digital self-service adoption rate among members

Not So Well

  • ACQUISITION: Medicare Advantage enrollment growth below expectations
  • SATISFACTION: Member satisfaction scores in key markets declined 4 points
  • ENGAGEMENT: Digital engagement metrics for new app below forecast by 12%
  • CONVERSION: Marketing qualified lead (MQL) to conversion rates down 5%

Learnings

  • INTEGRATION: Cross-platform experience consistency drives satisfaction
  • PERSONALIZATION: Targeted communications show 32% higher engagement
  • LIFECYCLE: Early member engagement correlates to 28% higher retention
  • CONTENT: Educational content generates 3x higher engagement than promos

Action Items

  • PLATFORM: Consolidate digital touchpoints into unified member experience
  • ANALYTICS: Implement advanced attribution model for marketing campaigns
  • CONTENT: Develop personalized health education content strategy by Q3
  • TRAINING: Upskill marketing team on AI-driven personalization tools
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To help people live healthier lives by creating a modern, high-performing health system through integrated experiences connecting data and care

Strengths

  • DATA: Massive proprietary healthcare data for AI training
  • INFRASTRUCTURE: Advanced cloud computing infrastructure
  • TALENT: Growing team of AI specialists and data scientists
  • EXPERIENCE: Early adoption of AI for claims processing
  • INVESTMENT: $500M+ annual investment in technology

Weaknesses

  • INTEGRATION: Fragmented AI initiatives across business units
  • AGILITY: Slow deployment cycles for AI-powered solutions
  • EXPERIENCE: Limited AI expertise in marketing organization
  • LEGACY: Technical debt in legacy systems limiting AI adoption
  • GOVERNANCE: Inconsistent AI ethics and governance frameworks

Opportunities

  • PREDICTIVE: AI-powered predictive health analytics
  • PERSONALIZATION: Hyper-personalized member communications
  • AUTOMATION: Marketing workflow automation and optimization
  • ENGAGEMENT: AI-powered conversational interfaces for support
  • MEASUREMENT: Advanced attribution modeling for marketing ROI

Threats

  • COMPETITION: Tech companies with superior AI capabilities
  • REGULATION: Evolving AI regulations in healthcare
  • TALENT: Intense competition for AI/ML talent
  • ADOPTION: Consumer skepticism about AI in healthcare
  • ETHICS: Potential bias in AI algorithms affecting fairness

Key Priorities

  • INTEGRATION: Develop unified AI strategy across marketing
  • TALENT: Build specialized AI marketing capabilities
  • PERSONALIZATION: Launch AI-powered member engagement platform
  • GOVERNANCE: Establish ethical AI framework for marketing