Thursday, May 1, 2014

Customer Centricity

Every organization talks of need to be customer centric.
How do employees who are not in customer interfacing roles understand necessary call for action from them?  Here are some options:
·         You can obviously have leaders state asks from different teams. But this may not lead to inspiration/motivation as you are just following asks and not necessarily seeing link between ‘asks’ and final impact for ‘customer’.
·         You educate employees on how different customer/marketing related terms/concepts relate to product/service, e.g. – how 4Ps of marketing relate to your product/service, what drives repurchase decisions of your products/services.
·         Sharing customer stories from different context/scenarios - how is your product/service actually getting used in different customer scenarios?  
I find second and third option more powerful. It increases chances of ‘meaning making’ by employees – figuring out for themselves how their work could contribute to enhanced customer experience.  Since we find our own meaning - our commitment to actions will usually be higher too.
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Sourav

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