Putting ‘Customer Experience’ At The Heart of IT Service Delivery and Development.
Thousands of Customers With Different Needs
In a increasingly competitive market place and to support the university’s 10 year vision, the IT Services department of this international research and education provider sought to switch towards a “customer experience” mentality.
With tens of thousand of customers with different goals and types of experiences working with the team, teasing out differing needs was critical. Jane was engaged for the project.
Project Goals
1. Develop a shared understanding of customer needs & pain points through development of customer persona(s) based on knowledge (not opinion).
2. Collect and analyse disparate knowledge across teams and data silos.
3. Build on team enthusiasm for understanding of customer needs.
Project Action Plan
- Understand core market context, particularly on-going change through preparatory market research.
- Explore ~40 market research data sources, including digital customer touch points, such as web analytics, and customer support analytics.
- Identify disparate data sources, pool team knowledge and encourage engagement via internal stakeholder interviews and an alignment workshop .
- Fill knowledge gaps and give the team first-hand experience of frank customer feedback via ~70 semi-structured customer interviews.
- Analyse qualitative data via the team-based “LP”, language processing, analysis enabling knowledge sharing and identification of critical ‘voices’.
Case Study Results
- Five detailed B2B customer persona each with their ‘ecosystem’ of influences grounded in the market space, and each clearly differentiated from the others.
- The ability to develop customer experience metrics and improvements aligned to customer need, including those formerly invisible.
- Customer empathy and a shared language as corner stones for change which requires team involvement and commitment.
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