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Digital Scan Delivers Enterprise-Wide Intelligence for C-Suites

Written by Ryan Scott | April 08, 2025

We combine existing client behavioral and sales data with new Digital Scan results to give you a powerful decision-enhancing picture! 


For years, enterprises have relied on behavioral assessments like DISC to support coaching and team-building efforts. But here’s the catch: those reports almost always end up in static PDFs—buried in email inboxes, hard drives, and folders. Powerful data...stuck.

So, when a large financial services firm came to DNA Behavior with 514 legacy DISC reports and a database of 22,000 clients, they asked a simple but game-changing question:

Can we turn this into something usable—for sales, for leadership, for growth?

With Digital Scan, the answer is yes.

 

The Challenge: A Wealth of Data, But No Behavioral Intelligence

This enterprise firm had spent years collecting behavioral data from advisors, plus decades of first-party client information. But none of it was working together. Their C-suite wanted insight, specifically:

  • Who are our customer segments?
  • What do they buy?
  • Can we forecast future product engagement based on behavior?

They had two core business lines: wealth and insurance. But they had no way to behavioralize their customer journey—until Digital Scan came in.

 

The Breakthrough: Digital Scan at Enterprise Scale

Here’s how we flipped the entire behavioral data model in just a few strategic moves:

🔁 Step 1: Reclaiming DISC Data

We ran all 514 legacy advisor DISC reports through Digital Scan, translating them into DNA Behavior-style profiles—creating behavioral continuity without retesting anyone.

👥 Step 2: Scanning the Client Base

Using names, job titles, and a few basic inputs, we scanned all 22,000 client records. This provided predicted behavioral personas for every single client: Take Charge, People, Patient, or Planned.

 

📊 Step 3: Tying Behavior to Revenue

Next, we used an internal data engineer at DNA Behavior to layer in the firm’s own sales data—mapping revenue and product type (wealth or insurance) to each behavioral segment and plotting this onto an interactive Power BI Dashboard.

📈 Step 4: Building the Dashboard

We delivered an enterprise-grade dashboard visualizing:

  • Behavioral personas by product line
  • Revenue distribution by persona
  • Persona alignment between advisors and clients
  • Opportunities for better client-advisor behavioral matching

Result: A real-time, executive-ready dashboard that turned behavior into strategy

 

The Insight: Caution Drives Insurance Sales

What stood out? The firm's client base—largely blue-collar, long-tenured professionals—showed strong Patient and Planned behavioral patterns.

And guess what? These same clients were disproportionately buying insurance products.

That insight wasn’t just validating—it was transformational. The firm could now:

  • Tailor messaging by persona
  • Coach advisors to adapt based on client behavior
  • Create marketing campaigns with behavioral precision
  • Align future product strategies with persona demand

The Bigger Win: Bringing Behavior to the Boardroom

What was once a sea of static documents became a living, breathing behavioral map of the enterprise—integrated, interactive, and accessible to every decision-maker.

No more disconnected assessments. No more blind spots. Just behavioral science with business teeth.