Our Top 10 Customer Experience Posts of 2017
It’s the beginning of a new year, which is always the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past and make grand plans for the future. As part of that effort, I recently took a look back at our most popular posts of 2017—and I wanted to share them with you here. I hope they inspire […]
WEBINAR: How To Use Journey Maps To Plan and Evangelize Self-Service Initiatives
Journey mapping has become a regular practice both inside and outside of customer experience organizations. But are you getting the full mileage from your journey mapping efforts—or did your efforts stall upon delivery of the maps? Join me as I share the power of customer journeys to develop your self-service strategy. Following my presentation, Solvvy […]
How To Scale Service Design: Ubiquity
Last week I published the first in a series of four posts on how to scale service design, based on my closing remarks at this year’s Service Design Global Conference in Madrid. The focus of that first post was technology. In today’s post, the second in the series, I’ll talk about ubiquity. “Ubiquity” can mean a lot […]
How To Map All The Variations In Your Customers’ Journeys
I got a great question this morning from some colleagues who attended of one of our recent journey mapping workshops together: “Our marketing team would like to map the prospect journey from awareness up to purchase, but there are so many entry points and no linear process. Prospects could see an ad, then read one of […]
Cyber Monday Sale on 2018 Workshops
We hope you’ll join us in one of these fun locations next year for our signature two-day customer journey mapping workshop: February 27 & 28 in San Francisco May 16 & 17 in Chicago September 12 & 13 in Boston Register early and save! With our Early Bird discount, you’ll save $100 on our regular […]
2018 Journey Mapping Workshops
We’ve been getting multiple requests over the past few weeks about our 2018 journey mapping workshop schedule. So without further ado… We hope you’ll join us in one of these fun locations next year for our signature two-day workshop! February 27 & 28 in San Francisco May 16 & 17 in Chicago September 12 & […]
How To Scale Service Design: Technology
Several weeks ago, I had the honor of delivering the closing remarks at this year’s Service Design Global Conference in Madrid. The theme of the conference this year was “Service Design at Scale”—and over the course of the three days in Madrid, I was inspired by the conference presentations, projects from the Service Design Award […]
Q&A From Our Webinar With J.D.Power
Yesterday I co-hosted a journey mapping webinar with our partner J.D.Power. We got a ton of great questions from the attendees, but didn’t have time to answer them all on the call. But good news: I’ve answered them all here! You’ll find them grouped them into four categories: general questions, how to get started, types […]
3 Service Design Conferences in 3 Weeks? Wow!
If you haven’t noticed, the field of service design has been picking up steam over the past several years—largely in part, in my opinion, to its natural alignment with helping organizations create better customer experiences. The latest evidence that the discipline is on a roll is that right now you can attend not one, not […]
Broken Promises: Courtyard By Marriott Edition
A friend of mine recently had a business trip to the Bay Area and booked his room at the Courtyard by Marriott in downtown Oakland. The morning before his stay, he received an email from Marriott, encouraging him to “Use Mobile Check-In to access Elite benefits.” He read through the email and saw that one […]
