Voice of the Customer

Hearing the Voice of the Customer

At the core of every successful business is a strong focus on customer experience. The voice of the customer is one of the most important things to a business, yet it is too often overlooked. Learn below how to channel the voice of the customer into your business and how to really listen to what they’re saying by using industry-leading analytics.

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?

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.

Ten B2B KPIs to Track, Starting Now (none are NPS) – Business KPIs

March 5, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, CX B2B, CX Vision, Net Promoter Score, Voice of the Customer /by Jim Tincher

Measuring Customer Experience’s (CX) business impact is hard. It’s one of the biggest challenges in passing the CCXP exam. One reason is that CX pros are very customer-focused; we’re confident that if we just focus on customer needs, the ROI will take care of itself. Unfortunately, our business partners aren’t always so confident.

Interview with Marlanges Simar – Director of CX at Prime Therapeutics

February 12, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, CX Interviews, CX Vision, Voice of the Customer /by Jim Tincher

Marlanges Simar is the Director of Customer Experience at Prime Therapeutics (Prime) managing their CX (Customer Experience) Architect team. Prime manages pharmacy benefits on behalf of health plans, employers and government programs. I interviewed her to better understand their role, and how they help Prime improve the customer experience.

CX architects play a strategic role in improving the experience of our different customer groups (members and health plan clients), as well as the prescribers and pharmacists we work with. This can range from fixing a problem to reworking or developing an entirely new portion of the experience.

Four Ideas for Navigating Backorders with B2B Customers

February 7, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Journey Map, CX Vision, Employee and Customer Engagement, Voice of the Customer /by Jim Tincher

As 2018 wrapped up, we finished mapping three very different B2B journeys – healthcare, manufacturing, and distribution. We found one major consistency: customers in all three reported recent backorder issues.

The customers were all businesses, but that’s where their similarities ended. Some were mom and pop retail storefronts; others were global manufacturers whose names you would immediately recognize, but their stories were similar:

Journeys are for Action, not Maps

January 10, 2019/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Voice of the Customer /by Jim Tincher

In preparation for the upcoming Customer Contact Week, CCW shared their special report on journey mapping with me. Given our focus and expertise on journey mapping, I’m commonly asked to review these types of reports. Unlike most, however, CCW’s special report truly gets to the heart of the matter – journey mapping is not about creating a map; it’s about driving customer-focused change in your organization.

Survivor Bias is a Big CX Measurement Risk

December 18, 2018/0 Comments/in Customer Centric Culture Change, Customer Experience, Customer Journey Map, Customer Segments, CX Vision, Employee and Customer Engagement, Voice of the Customer /by Jim Tincher

As defined by RationalWiki, “survivorship bias is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone tries to make a decision based on past successes, while ignoring past failures. It is a specific type of selection bias.” Applied to CX, it’s when you focus only on existing customers and ignore those who have left.

Let’s look at an example. There’s a national sports bar which saw its CX scores continually improving. Unfortunately, at the same time, revenue was declining. While CX was celebrating, the rest of the organization was panicked. Read more