How do you establish shared, customer-centric motivation in your teams? Group IQ is the ability of teams to perform well. Groups with high emotional intelligence outperform those with high cognitive abilities (Goleman). Harmonious groups try harder and pull together. Shared motivation provides the ‘pull’ in the same direction. So how do leaders establish shared, customer-centric […]
Presentations That Punch
Spending much of my time with clients doing research, I invest time looking at how others present findings. This new information to enrich our understand hit me with a punch. For your own unfettered reaction read the short article here. This research by Morning Consult and the New York Times took my breath way. I sit here still […]
How To Get Your Team Started With Customer Journey Mapping
For some organizations the core objective of customer journey mapping is to reduce the loss of prospects. For others, the goal is to start understanding the experience of prospects and customers who are trying to navigate your organization. For those responsible for product and service development, it’s about uncovering opportunities to serve customers better. In […]
Voice of the Customer – How To Develop A Discussion Guide
In order to understand customers, voice of the customer projects undertake to speak to actual customers! A discussion guide focuses the conversation on key topics about which you want to learn while leaving room for unexpected learnings.
Capturing Voice of Customer
Whether you are working on the fuzzy-front end of product or service development, developing customer personas to better target your marketing communications or diving into customer experience, doing voice of the customer market research typically means sitting down with customers, listening and capturing their ideas. So how do you get set up for success when collecting […]
Learning Innovation From Successful Startups
Because innovation is not just for startups. Are you are looking to move the balance of revenue away from existing towards new innovative solutions? Or perhaps operationally you’re in great shape but are looking to the future. But building something new is fundamentally different from operational excellence. So with so much focus on technology, startups and […]