Service Summary

Customer Experience Strategy

Typical Benefits

The following personas/roles may also be involved and benefit:

CMO, Chief Sales Officer, COO, CFO, Customer Success, CTO

Loyal customers with a high lifetime value

Understanding customer needs so an organisation can prioritise the right products, services, resources and operational processes that address these needs. This can be done at a segment and persona level and delivers personalisation, sales and marketing messages and operational efficiencies.

Motivated employees who are engaged, understand their role and are empowered to focus on the customer

 

Overview

Creation of a CX strategy to support the overall business goals

A measurement framework that delivers functional, emotional and financial value to the customer

Activities can include:

A maturity assessment to understand the customer’s current maturity level if they have an existing programme to understand the strengths, gaps and how to progress.

Understanding the customer journey as is, identify the gaps and plot the ideal journey. Building feedback into each stage along with relevant CX Measures

Obtaining a 360 degree view of the customer from various sources of feedback

A continuous improvement programme an action plan

A governance plan to ensure CX stays top of mind and strategic and tactical actions are being taken and individuals held accountable

An employee and customer communication plan explaining roles, impact, changes as a result of customer feedback.

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  • Improve clarity of responsibilities and capabilities to deliver against them
  • Identify, agree and prioritise new ideas and opportunities to generate business value
  • Ability to demonstrate, socialise and communicate concepts, outcomes and business cases
  • Improved internal satisfaction, loyalty and customer value
  • Agree and define actions and a feasible roadmap
  • Gain context and insight to enable faster, more informed decisions and actions
  • Clarify initiative dependencies and definition of success
  • Reduce time in delivering change from skills gaps or capacity issues
  • Reduce ambiguity around vision, goals, strategy and roadmaps
  • Understand weaknesses and capability gaps to better plan for structured, feasible improvement
  • Reduce blockers to progress due to personal and structural agendas
  • Reduce time and errors in decision making, learning and adoption
  • Reduce inconsistencies in approach, communications and associated reputational damage

Our Requirements of You

Open to change, honest feedback from customers and committed to acting on change

A desire to bring employees with on the CX journey

Work with us to obtain Stakeholder and sponsor buy in

Holding management and employees accountable for change but also willing to recognise and reward employee success

Sharing data and processes

 

Our Commitments to You

Will lead by example

Invest in understanding the clients business, employees and customers. No two customers are the same and we will work with you to create a bespoke programme that works for you.

Share best practice, frameworks and guidance

Challenge you respectfully and propose alternative  ways of achieving results

 

Deliverables

Depends on your needs and our recommendations:

It can be an end-to-end service managing your CX programme with you, a kickstart package to get you going with regular check ins, ideas on how to drive immediate improvements or work on discreet deliverables eg. faciliating journey workshops, creating a measurement framework, helping you put an RFP together for a new technology platform, create an internal cultural change framework, a communications plan with associated content.

Available Service Engagement Models

*This service may be engaged via multiple engagement model options to provide maximum flexibility.

Project Based Engagement

Project based engagements operate on the basis of agreeing work and any outcomes or milestones for delivery in advance of commencement of any engagement in a ‘Statement of Work’. Prices are fixed for the agreed deliverables and should changes be required, these may incur changes to delivery costs. Payment for Project Based Engagements are agreed on a case-by-case basis, giving consideration to risk, contract value, client payment history, relationship longevity and duration.

Subscription Service

A HiveMind Subscription Service enables clients to flexibly engage with HiveMind Expert(s) in line with the subscription purchased. Subscriptions typically run for 12, 24 or 36 months or can also be arranged on a rolling 6 monthly basis. Subscriptions for 6 or 12 months are billed at the commencement of service, with billing for 24 or 36 month contracts taking place on the annual anniversary of subscription commencement.

Focus In On: Responsible for Innovation

New Areas of Value:

Enabling positive behavioural change

Effective delivery against financial targets

Fostering a human centric, transparent, trustworthy and agile culture

More satisfied and engaged employees with increased retention and productivity

Improved business agility and ability to rapidly respond to change and opportunity

Increased credibility, confidence and influence across the business

Enabling competitive differentiation and increasing market share

Increase customer acquisition, advocacy and lifetime value

More consistent and sustainable profitability and business growth

Gain access to additional budget through success

Direct positive impact on internal and external customer satisfaction

Viable, scalable and actionable roadmap to deliver innovation and change

Improvements around:

Inefficient or misaligned operating model and lack of business agility

Lack of exec sponsorship and track record

Lack of appropriate capabilities, skills, tools and methods

Unclear business strategy and requirements

Unclear or inefficient internal communications

Disconnect between culture and future vision

Misaligned goals across business and silos

Lack of clarity around market landscape