Managers and leaders know that customer centricity means providing positive customer experiences. But what if that’s not enough? In the current age, where Millennials and Generation Z are shaping the very fabric of society and business, to remain relevant, organisations must provide more than occasional good experiences. A narrow focus on short-termism, excessive tech automatisation and outdated product mentalities are a liability to customer centricity. We need businesses that are willing to radically change, embrace a long-term, customer-focussed perspective, and are able to create value for all stakeholders. In Journey to Centricity, Ilenia Vidili instils a customer-oriented vision from the C-suite beyond, to transform your day-to-day operations and culture through three pillars: Humanity. Make your brand more human by embracing a higher purpose, an empathic human touch and sustainable corporate responsibility. Technology. Apply the necessary tools as enablers to ease of use, hyper-personalisation and innovation to improve your customers’ lives. Culture. Invest effort in changing old-style mindsets that improve your culture and fortify your brand, to create a place where employees feel motivated, valued and appreciated. Drawing on B2C practical advice from Ilenia’s first-hand interviews with leaders of world-class organisations such as illycaffè, Enel, Polestar, Forrester and Bain & Co, this book lays out a customer-centric framework for thriving in the new era of stakeholder capitalism. Receive a powerful call to action to combat old paradigms, improve customer focus, create value for all stakeholders and contribute to a sustainable business world. There has never been a more critical time for change. Transform your mission into a journey to centricity.

The empowered customer is here to stay. With a low tolerance for subpar experiences, they have no qualms in switching brands if disappointed, and expect companies to provide offers that are personally relevant to them. This realisation has led enterprises to revamp their business strategies to meet the high expectations of these savvy and hyper-connected consumers. This requires a 360 degree customer-centric approach—fuelled by big data—that attempts to understand customer problems and deliver timely solutions. The ability to use customer journey mapping and real-time analytics to unlock actionable insights can provide a competitive edge. Knowledge about shifts in customer behaviour, preferred channels or social media sentiment helps companies to respond proactively and with the right message. The digital transformation snake framework presented in this book examines the socio-economic changes and digital trends that are reshaping consumption, and what they portend for the future. It is complemented by an analysis of the new skills and workforce models, as well as the business models needed to succeed in the age of digital disruption.

Struggling to ensure that the customer is at the center of all your business does? This book is your guide to putting the "customer" in customer experience. Not sure what that means? Well, for starters, too many executives believe they are delighting their customers. Why wouldn't they think that?! When they focus on growth, those customer acquisition numbers are pretty sweet, but they don't tell the real story. Prioritizing customer retention is critical. But you can't just throw technology at it, give it some lip service, and call it a day. Retention is hard work! You've got to understand who your customers are and what problems they are trying to solve or what jobs they are trying to do. Then you've got to use that understanding to design an experience that helps customers achieve their goals. That's the key to putting the customer in customer experience! Ultimately, you need to bring the customer voice into all meetings, decisions, processes, and designs. The customer must be at the center of all you do. After all, it's all about the customer! In this book, I cover the three approaches to customer understanding: surveys and data, personas, and journey mapping. I could've written the whole book about journey mapping, but there's so much more to building a customer-centric business than journey mapping. The culture must first be deliberately designed to put the customer at the heart of the business. And all foundational elements of a CX transformation must be in place to make that happen. With that knowledge, read this book and: Learn about the three approaches you must use to understand your customers, why you must use them, and how they work together. Create an action plan to ensure insights gleaned from these three approaches are implemented in your organization. Develop and assign personas to your customers in order to better understand their needs, goals, problems to solve, and jobs to be done. Learn the difference between touchpoint maps and journey maps and how touchpoint maps can still be a valuable asset in your customer experience toolbox. Understand why journey mapping is called the backbone of customer experience management - and how to make it so in your organization. Set up and facilitate your own current-state and future-state journey mapping workshops with customers. Set up and facilitate service blueprint workshops with internal stakeholders. Find out how to put the customer at the heart of your business. And more!

Is your organization prepared for the next paradigm of customer experience, or will you be left behind? This practical book will make you a winner in a market driven by experience, enabling you to develop desirable offerings and standout service to attract loyal customers. Author Simon Clatworthy shows you how to transform your organization into one that aligns your customers’ experiential journey with platforms, organizational structures, and strategic alliances. Rather than treat customer experience as an add-on to product and service design, you’ll discover how experience-centricity can drive the whole organization. Learn the five steps necessary to transform into an experience-centric organization Explore the underlying structure needed to design and deliver memorable experiences Understand how customers and clients experience products and services Develop experiential DNA as an extension of your brand DNA Be proactive by translating cultural trends into experiences

A 2019 Axiom Business Award winner. In The Customer Centricity Playbook , Wharton School professor Peter Fader and Wharton Interactive's executive director Sarah Toms help you see your customers as individuals rather than a monolith, so you can stop wasting resources by chasing down product sales to each and every consumer.

This book presents strategies that put the customer at the center of an enterprise. It elaborates on the reasons for viewing customers as assets that a firm needs to acquire, develop and cultivate in order to generate profitable relationships, and champions customer profitability as the metric for measuring business performance. Further, it advocates the need to provide solutions to customers’ requirements with bundles of products and services. It broadens the definition of customer value beyond tangible benefits and price to include both tangible and intangible benefits and total ownership costs, while embracing a variety of unique customer needs. The book highlights the value of business planning, marketing and sales mechanisms and changing employee behavior to create lifelong, high-value profitable customer relationships that satisfy the customer’s needs. Competitive Advantage of Customer Centricity maps a new journey that entire organizations must undertake in order to achieve these lucrative goals.