The Customer Centric Blueprint

Book Description: Our world is undergoing rapid transformation. In this tide of change and upheaval, customers are stepping into their power and making demands the likes of which have never been seen before. Building sustainable competitive advantage and leading a superior 21st century organisation requires a new approach - placing your customer at the heart of everything you do, implementing a customer-centric business model and boldly leading your organisation through the transformational journey required. Using the REAP Customer-Centric Organisation Blueprint(r) as an architecture, this book explores all the interconnected components of a truly customer-centric business model and how you can apply its principles practically and with tangibly significant business results. It will support you to strategize, plan and operationalise the future in order to create, deliver and capture value, whilst delivering sustainable, superior business performance. About the Author: Doug Leather, CEO of REAP Consulting (Pty) Ltd, is a Wharton Business School Alumnus who has a diverse and varied background, including engineering and commercial. He is a leading expert in Customer Management working globally with large blue-chip organisations, and is best described as a Customer Management Evangelist, Activist and Futurologist as a result of his intense passion, broad multi-industry and multi-country insights into customer management capability understanding, best practice application, customer experience, business models and business performance improvement. The primary focus of his client work today is in helping people in businesses think, and work differently together to understand the importance of customer asset management, assessing the maturity of customer management capability and then conceiving, planning, developing/repairing, driving and measuring strategy and programmes for the 21st Century Organisatio

An updated version of the must-have book for SaaS sales teams, which The SaaS Sales Method defines to include Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success. Because of their very nature, SaaS companies live and die on revenue growth. And once the service is ready there is a very small window in which to scale. Missing that window is the difference between massive success and mediocrity. With such high stakes, it is crucial to get a sales team and process in place that will scale. Yet most early stage companies build their sales teams by the seat of their pants. This book distills the authors' years of building high performance SaaS teams into a set of highly detailed instructions that will allow sales leaders to design, implement and execute all around sales plans.Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization provides detailed guidance for SaaS sales leaders on how to build an sales organization that works together across the entire customer relationship. It builds on the concepts in The SaaS Sales Method and provides detailed information on how to structure teams so that they apply fundamental sales skills during Moments That Matter.

Boost Revenues with Top-Notch Customer Experience! Get the digital version of this book for FREE when you purchase a paperback copy! Do you know the value of exceptional customer experience? Do you want to optimize your customer experience blueprint? Would you like to streamline your operations with customer journey mapping? When you read Dr. Janne Ohtonens The 5-Star Customer Experience, youll discover the three secrets of providing a phenomenal customer experience. This fascinating guidebook helps you understand your current level of experience and what you can do to improve and excel! Secret 1: Create a Customer Experience Blueprint Develop a Customer Experience Strategy that boosts revenue, profit, and customer satisfaction. Secret 2: Map Your Customers Journey Learn how people interact with your business, weed out frustrations and time-sinks, and increase cost efficiency. Secret 3: Experience Stunning Results Take your strategy and plans into action and see your revenues grow, cost base decrease and customers smiling! With your purchase of this book, youll also get FREE digital downloads of the authors other two books! Inside The 5-Star Customer Experience, youll discover: Why innovative and constantly improving customer experience creates sustainable revenue growth A practical way for creating a customer experience blueprint that wows the customers and brings in the profit for the business How to use customer journey mapping tools, including step-by-step guides and examples with illustrations to optimize cost efficiency "If you want to ensure long-term business success, then you will find Dr. Ohtonen's book invaluable--a must-read blueprint for putting the customer at the heart of your organization" (Marcos Moret, Managing Director). "An awesome read. You will find yourself inspired to approach the challenge of becoming more customer-centric in a structured and methodical way" (Anthony Pearmain, Customer Experience Consultant). "I realized how important it is that the whole company works together to achieve more customer centric approach. This is not a book to be read just by the business owners or decision makers; it is a useful book to be read by people at all organizational levels in all industries" (Jenna Heinonen, MBA). Do the right thing for your business, your customers, and the world Dr. Ohtonen donates part of the proceeds from every book sold to charity! This essential business guide includes practical, how-to steps for optimizing your customer service. Youll discover a wide variety of real-world case studies so you can benefit from the hard lessons experienced by other companies. By understanding, designing, and improving your customers experiences, you can see dramatic growth in your sales and revenues! Dont let your competition get an edge on you Order your copy of The 5-Star Customer Experience TODAY! Its quick and easy Just scroll up and click the BUY NOW WITH ONE CLICK button on the right-hand side of the screen.

The practical, expert guide to reaching the new consumer Customer-Centric Marketing is a comprehensive game plan on succeeding in the new marketing landscape by focusing on the customer. Written by one of Canada's top communications pioneers, this book examines the complex forces influencing the rise of empowered and demanding customers and outlines a framework that helps marketers exploit these forces to engage them. You'll find actionable advice to help you pull together these seemingly independent elements to create a customer-centric business model that is ideally positioned to take on the dynamic requirements of today's marketing environment, and learn the strategic rules that CMOs can use to model their organizations to win. Valuable insights on customer experience, innovation, content, social media, and operating strategies will help you formulate a workable plan, and when combined with the practical guidance and expert advice, enable you to put your plan into action today. The new purchasing journey has created a whole new set of customer touch points with unique needs, and has identified key activity areas that drive success or failure in the marketplace. This guide helps you sort it all out, and make your organization rise to the top. Define the new customer-purchasing journey Identify and influence the new consumer Engage, nurture, and utilize brand advocates to spread your message Position your organization to win in the new marketplace As customers evolve, smart companies evolve with them, and, with a track record that speaks for itself, putting the customer at the center of strategic thinking is the key to a winning plan,. Consumer evolution is happening more rapidly than ever before, and keeping your organization out in front has never been more important. Customer-Centric Marketing provides the concrete framework, expert insight, and actionable advice that turns strategy into reality.

This book offers a breakthrough formula for creating a sustainable customer centric organization, which forms the key to enduring business success. This new blueprint entails a systematic and integrated journey towards customer centricity. In this book, Dr. Zafer has provided a sorely needed guidebook for executives to become a successful customer centric company. He shows us how companies can deliver a superior customer experience that result in trusted customer relations that can boost profitability. This is the book you should read if you want to deliver a superior customer experience in a sustainable way.

Not all customers are created equal. Despite what the tired old adage says, the customer is not always right. Not all customers deserve your best efforts: in the world of customer centricity, there are good customers...and then there is pretty much everybody else. Upending some of our most fundamental beliefs, renowned behavioral data expert Peter Fader, Co-Director of The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, helps businesses radically rethink how they relate to customers. He provides insights to help you revamp your performance metrics, product development, customer relationship management and organization in order to make sure you focus directly on the needs of your most valuable customers and increase profits for the long term.

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!

The success of private sector companies as well as public sector organizations is positively correlated with the level of customer experience they deliver. Outstanding experiences lead to high performance, satisfied customers, and many other positive outcomes. Poor experiences lead to countless negative problems and obstacles within the company and dissatisfied, frustrated customers outside.Given the importance of experiences, substantial resources are invested in improving them. Yet, the results are often disappointing. Companies have a difficult time fulfilling customers' expectations and satisfying their needs consistently, over time. Especially in the digital era we live in. This raises a question: Is there a roadmap that can help people and organizations achieve their experience goals? This book focuses on this issue.This interdisciplinary book offers a holistic, step-by-step blueprint for students, practitioners, and managers interested in understanding how to create exceptional customer experiences and learning how to effectively manage them. A unique model is presented. It includes four parts which are broken down into fourteen lectures. Each lecture deals with a specific topic and includes research-based figures and graphs, practical tools, and easy-to-implement customer-focused actions. Every lecture is one piece of the blueprint and together, they offer a path to experience leadership.