How To Keep Your Customer Workshops On Track

A face-to-face workshop with your employees and your customers can be an organization-changing experience. But getting in a room with customers isn’t all roses. Leaders who are new to the customer workshop approach are usually apprehensive about three things: “No one will want to come!” This is by far the most common—but unfounded—fear. Customer recruiting […]
The Customer Journey DOES NOT EQUAL The Customer Lifecycle

When I bumped into a former colleague at a recent conference, he was eager to chat about a journey mapping initiative his organization (a major financial services provider) was kicking off. But I got a blank look when I asked what journeys his team planned to focus on. “We were going to do the whole […]
5 Steps To Mapping The Customer Journey

Wondering how to map the experiences that your customers currently have with your organization? Follow these five steps. 1. HYPOTHESIZE about the experience you currently deliver A hypothesis journey map is just what it sounds like: your hypothesis of what customers go through as they do business with you. Be careful with this step—it’s necessary, but can […]
JOIN US! Journey Mapping Bootcamp On May 16 & 17 In Chicago

One recent attendee called our journey mapping bootcamp “an MBA on steroids.” On May 16 & 17, join us in the heart of Chicago to find out why. Our signature two-day bootcamp is jam packed with content and exercises that will answer these questions: Why are customer journeys (and journey maps) important? What makes journey […]
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 & […]