Customer Strategy — how the customer can improve the organization
Customer strategy creates a new suite of tools to help the organization align, involve and collaborate with the customer — in different shapes and forms. But why would you involve the customer?
In the current overview I have organized the list of tasks and activities I have worked on with different customers over time, in order to make clearer the different opportunities the customer can offer to the organization.
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STRATEGY AND TARGETS
- What is the link between our strategy, targets and customer value?
- How are we appreciating the efforts made to increase customer value at an individual or team level?
- How are we motivating the organization to increase the customer value and how is this directly linked to the organizations business metrics and individual score cards?
CUSTOMER DATA
- What does the current customer data tell us, how is it valuable to us?
- How could the organization benefit from more customer data and how can we gather this?
- How can we make the data available to different teams in the organization and in what format?
- How can we implement a system of action continually feeding the organization in a way that promotes decisions and action?
- How will the organization improve from better customer data?
OPERATIONS AND PROCESSES
- Why are we organized the way we are, who is benefitting from this?
- What does a customer process look like, is it efficient and confined or are customer problems cross functional and messy?
- How can we optimize to solve customer problems better?
- How is the customer present in todays organization and processes?
- Does the organization see or anticipate an increase in customer influence and does it need to reorganize to changing customer needs?
CUSTOMER TOOLS
- What customer tools could the organization benefit from?
- How can different tools help us solve our different challenges?
- How can we retain the customer focus in the organization over time / implement a continuous presence / role for the customer in the organization?
UNDERSTANDING THE CUSTOMER
- How can we make the customer more valuable to the organization?
- In which contexts and what formats would the customer insight be helpful?
- How can we demonstrate this value, surprise and motivate the organization to engage with the customer in these contexts?
- How can we implement this?
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
- How do we improve our current products and services?
- How do we align them to the market?
- How do we exploit new opportunities or respond to direct or asymmetric competition?
- How do we continually tweak and optimize what we are already offering?
FUTURE CUSTOMER DEMANDS / DISRUPTION
- How do we understand the customers future demand patterns?
- How can we organize ourselves, so that we are able with swift flexibility to continuously probe and learn from the customer?
- How do we understand the changes in the customers motivation and priorities and how we can meet or solve new / asymmetric challenges?
OPERATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL EXCELLENCE
- How do we optimize our business model?
- How is the company organizing to provide the current offering and with what efficiency?
- Which tools and partners are we using and are we using these in the best possible way?
- How does our deliverable through our interactions and meeting places coordinate with the needs of the customer at any one time of the customer journey?
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP / CUSTOMER LIFE TIME VALUE
- How do we develop direct, immediate and long lasting relationships with the customers?
- How do we make these relationships more valuable?
- What is the and how do we increase the customer life time value?
