The Experience Differentiator: An Introduction to Customer Experience Design (Denver Startup Week 2015 Presentation)
It has never been easier to get new products and services to market, leading to increasing competition and market saturation. In this environment of near total product and service parity, the customer experience is often the only meaningful differentiator.
This talk was delivered at Denver Startup Week 2015
Three Key Misconceptions About Experience Design
There are three key misconceptions about customer experience design that are limiting its effectiveness in many organizations. These must be resolved for companies to design experiences that are effective, enjoyable and differentiated.
Designing a Customer Decision Journey Driven Sales and Marketing Framework - Part 2
We start the design process by collecting information about who our clients customers are, what our clients customers are doing and why they are doing it.
Designing a Customer Decision Journey Driven Sales and Marketing Framework - Part 1
A step by step guide for designing a flexible framework that enables sales and marketing to adapt to changes in customers buying behaviors.
Journey Driven Sales and Marketing
Marketing and sales must evolve to become services that deliver value independent of a purchase. They must make the customer better at who they are attempting to be and what they are want to accomplish. Shifting to service based sales and marketing requires a disciplined program of customer research, journey analysis and insight development.
The Dangers of Benchmarking
Industry benchmarking is worthless activity unless the others in your industry are the best. If you compete with mediocre companies you will only achieve mediocrity.
The ethics of connecting things to the internet
As the recent Jeep hacking incident vividly demonstrates, the risks inherent in connecting things to the internet continue to grow and the impacts of those breaches are growing more serious.
If we make the assumption that everything can and will eventually be hacked, what are the ethics of building connected devices?
5 Key Principles for Creating a Positive Customer Experience
Enjoyable and effective customer experiences don't just happen. They must intentionally and deliberately designed across every touchpoint. This requires a deep understanding of your customers and an unwavering focus on their perspective. There are 5 key principles that help guide the creation of great experiences: