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A customer journey map is an incredibly useful tool that allows you to better understand the perspective of your customer throughout each stage of their experience with your business. They show a customer’s desires, frustration, concerns, and more. By creating and analyzing a customer journey map, you can better grasp what it’s like to be your customer and how that experience can be improved. This can lead to dramatic results that directly impact ROI including increased loyalty. See what happens when you put the customer at the core of your business. Learn more below.

How to Recruit and Interview B2B Customers for your Customer Journey Mapping Project

April 30, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, Customer Experience Surveys, Customer Journey Map, CX B2B, CX Interviews, CX Vision, Minneapolis CX, Voice of the Customer /by Corey Pawlak

This post, written by Heart of the Customer Project Manager Corey Pawlak, is the first in a week-long series about some of the ways journey mapping differs from traditional market research. Guest authors Corey Pawlak, Cathy McLane and Nicole Newton will share their expertise in recruiting and interviewing B2B customers, why 10-page reports are better than 50-page reports, and using video to bring the customer experience to life.

In journey mapping, customer interviews are used to validate, refine and revise internal beliefs about customer perception and experience with your firm. It’s essential for understanding and reflecting the voices of actual customers. Therefore, recruiting customers to interview for the customer journey mapping process is a crucial—yet potentially time-consuming—step.

The first step is to define the targeted interview pool criteria.

How Journey Mapping Differs from Traditional Market Research

April 29, 2019/3 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, Customer Experience Surveys, Customer Journey Map, CX Vision, Employee and Customer Engagement, Minneapolis CX, Voice of the Customer /by Jim Tincher

We find a lot of confusion in the marketplace around journey mapping. Some think that journey mapping is just a workshop where you take all the people who created your broken, siloed experience, give them Post-It Notes, and Bam! You have a journey map. Others go the opposite direction, considering journey mapping to be traditional market research with a nice-looking report. It’s this latter group that we’re focusing on this week in a series of posts about what exactly is different between traditional market research and best-practice journey mapping. Read more

May is (Journey) Mapping Month!

April 25, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Experience, Customer Journey Map, CX Vision, Journey Mapping Resources & Tools, Minneapolis CX /by Jim Tincher

The Most Important Question: Who’s on your Journey Mapping Team?

April 16, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, Customer Journey Map, CX Vision, Employee and Customer Engagement, Minneapolis CX, Voice of the Customer /by Jim Tincher

Note: We’re celebrating the upcoming launch of our new book, “How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer? Using Customer Journey Mapping to Drive Customer-Focused Change,” by Mapper-In-Chief Jim Tincher and B2B Practice Lead Nicole Newton. In the book, we introduce five journey mapping questions to answer as you launch your customer journey mapping effort.

First, Jim walked through “What’s the Business Problem or Opportunity?;” Nicole introduced the topic of “What is the Right Journey?,” Jim wrote about “Who’s the Right Customer?” and Nicole documented how to select the right approach.

Interested in the five journey mapping questions? Watch the intro to our YouTube series on the topic here.

Now we come to the fifth question, and, as they say, “last, but not least,” but in our case, the last question is actually the most important to answer. That’s because we’re working to ensure that journey mapping drives change, but we know that usually, it doesn’t.

Collecting Information About Your Customer’s Journey: What’s the Right Approach?

April 11, 2019/1 Comment/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, Customer Experience Surveys, Customer Journey Map, CX Vision, Journey Mapping Resources & Tools, Voice of the Customer /by Nicole Newton

Note: We’re celebrating the upcoming launch of our new book, “How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer? Using Customer Journey Mapping to Drive Customer-Focused Change,” by Mapper-In-Chief, Jim Tincher and B2B Practice Lead, Nicole Newton. In the book, we introduce five journey mapping questions to answer as you launch your customer journey mapping effort.

Three weeks ago, Jim walked through “What’s the Business Problem or Opportunity?,” two weeks ago Nicole introduced the topic of “What is the Right Journey?” and last week Jim wrote about “Who’s the Right Customer?”

Interested in the five journey mapping questions? Watch the intro to our youtube series on the topic here.

Once you’ve defined the customer and the journey you would like to map, you will need to select the best approach to collect information about the experience.

Who’s the Right Customer to Map? Your Third Journey Mapping Question

April 3, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, Customer Journey Map, Customer Personas, CX Vision, Voice of the Customer /by Jim Tincher

Note: We’re celebrating the upcoming launch of our new book “How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer? Using Customer Journey Mapping to Drive Customer-Focused Change,” by Mapper-In-Chief Jim Tincher and B2B Practice Lead Nicole Newton. We’re using the launch as a cheesy excuse to walk through the Five Journey Mapping Questions.

Two weeks ago, Jim covered “What’s the Business Problem or Opportunity,” and, last week, Nicole introduced the topic of “What is the Right Journey?”

Defining Scope: Should You Map an End-to-End Journey or a Specific Sub-Journey?

March 28, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Experience, Customer Journey Map, Customer Personas, CX Vision, Employee and Customer Engagement, Minneapolis CX, Voice of the Customer /by Nicole Newton

Editor’s Note: As we get ready for our book launch in May, we’re previewing the major topics. This post was written by co-author Nicole Newton, HoC’s B2B Practice Lead. You can read more about our book at https://heartofthecustomer.com/book/.

Mapping the Right Journey

At Heart of the Customer, we recommend starting a journey mapping project by answering these five questions:

What is the business problem or opportunity behind mapping?
What is the right journey to map?
Who is the right customer to map?
What is the right approach to gathering the voice of your customer?
Who are the right people to be on your journey mapping team?

Three Common Customer Journey Mapping Business Cases

March 21, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, Customer Journey Map, Customer Personas, CX B2B, CX Vision, Employee and Customer Engagement /by Jim Tincher

Editor’s Note: As we get ready for our book launch in May, we’re previewing the major topics. You can read more about our book at https://heartofthecustomer .com/book/.

What differentiates a mapping program that drives action from one that doesn’t? A major factor is the reason for doing journey mapping in the first place.

We can confidently predict whether a mapping program will be successful in our very first conversation. Does the company have a solid reason they want to do mapping? Or is it because they heard it’s a good thing to do?

How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer Journey Mapping Book

Introducing “How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer? Using Journey Maps to Drive Customer-Focused Change”

March 12, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, Customer Experience Surveys, Customer Journey Map, Customer Personas, CX Interviews, CX Vision, Journey Mapping Resources & Tools, Minneapolis CX, Voice of the Customer /by Jim Tincher

At Heart of the Customer, we’re pleased to introduce our forthcoming book on journey mapping best practices!

Journey mapping opens up extraordinary avenues for business growth, but only when done wisely and well. Through insight from CX pros, extensive research, and real-world case studies, you can learn the best way to capture your customers’ experiences to drive action that gets results, boosting loyalty, satisfaction, and your bottom line.

What is the Right Level of Granularity for Your Customer Journey Map?

February 27, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, Customer Journey Map, CX Vision /by Jim Tincher

Two weeks ago I hosted a webinar with Intouch Insight (you can view the recording here), and I was blown away with all of the good questions we had. We left fifteen minutes for Q&A and weren’t even able to get through everything!

Samuel, in particular, asked two good questions we often hear from companies considering journey mapping, so I thought I’d share his questions – alongside my answers – for our broader audience.

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