Customer Experience Demystified

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Customer Experience Demystified
Expectations, Capabilities & All Hands On Deck

When a customer’s reality is less than their expectations:
. . . they look at it as a poor customer experience.
When a customer’s reality matches their expectations:
. . . they look at it as a good customer experience.
It’s All About Expectation Sets
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Select Get Use
Capability
Customer Experience = Reality ÷ Expectations
Customers’ Realities versus Expectations
Customer experience excellence
is about perceived realities across everything
customers employ to select, get, and use your solution,
toward achieving the capability they’re seeking

Customers Buy Capabilities (Not Product per se)
Capabilities
Every purchase is about a
capability
• To relax
• To be entertained
• To avoid pain
• To grow
• To live
• To make money
(serve B2B customers)
(What a Customer Wants)

What You Sell is a Means Toward Capabilities
Capabilities
Your offerings are a
means-to-an-end
• To relax
• To avoid pain
• To grow
• To live
• To make money
Your Offerings / Solutions
(What a Customer Wants)
(Means-to-an-End)

Capabilities Are Customers’ “Jobs-to-be-Done”
Capabilities
We buy because
we have a
job-to-be-done
• To relax
• To avoid pain
• To grow
• To live
• To make money
(Customer’s Job-to-be-Done)
(Means-to-an-End)

A “Job-to-be-Done” Integrates Various Things
Capabilities
A customer’s job-to-be-done
integrates
your offering with other …
(Means-to-an-End)
Integrated with
Other Things
• People
• Processes
• Products
• Services
• Technologies
This is the bedrock of customer expectations

When Does Customer Experience Begin/End?
Need
Awareness
Need
Extinction
Capabilities
Customer experience
begins
when a customer is aware
of needing a capability
Customer experience
ends
when a customer no longer
perceives need the need
for that capability
… as opposed to company-announced obsolescence
or the last interaction with the company

What Drives Customer Expectations?
Need
Awareness
Need
Extinction
Capabilities
Circumstances
that trigger
need awareness
create an expectation set
for a customer
Circumstances
A customer may have a
different expectation set
for each circumstance
• Aspirational
• Corrective
• Risk avoidance
• Other
Segmenting customers by “expectation sets” streamlines what it takes to “manage to expectations”

What Are Customer Expectations?
Need
Awareness
Need
Extinction
Capabilities
Built-in judgments
measure goodness of
functional & emotional
needs toward achieving the
capabilities
Circumstances
Functional:
• Does it build the capability?
Emotional:
• Any personal consequences?
• Any social consequences?
Emotional
Functional
This is why organic customer feedback is so valuable to drive action company-wide

Need
Awareness
Need
Extinction
Capabilities
Circumstances
Emotional
Functional
Everything Has a Ripple Effect on Customers
Product Service
Business Model
Affinities Convenience
Policies Processes
Culture
(Means-to-an-End)
This is why “all-hands-on-deck” company-wide is necessary for customer experience excellence

“Jobs-to-be-Done” = A Guiding Light to All
Customers’ desired capabilities & integrations
are the growth-promoting context for roles company-wide.
Most roles are typically viewed in a revenue context, or simply for the sake of completing tasks.

Customer Experience
Customers’ realities in selecting, getting, and using a solution
that enables a capability they want.
Customer Experience Management
Discipline of treating your customer relationships as assets
with the goal of engaging customers as brand advocates.
Customer Experience Optimization
Natural customer passion for a brand
through company-wide alignment with buyer priorities
for enduring revenue and profit growth.
Customer Experience Enablement
Bridge between voice-of-the-customer & customer engagement
to earn trust, loyalty, and enduring profit growth.
.
Customer Experience Defined

Customer Experience ROI Building-Blocks
All blocks work in tandem to maximize & sustain business results.
Left-right flow. Start simply with a stepping stone in each block; build maturity over time.
Customer experience excellence is a way of life and an ongoing internal journey as market forces evolve.
http://ClearActionCX.com/cx-success-factors

Customer Experience ROI Success Factors
In our 4-year study, companies with these practices tended to have stronger business results.
http://ClearActionCX.com/success-factors

ClearAction founded the world’s 1st and largest global B2B customer experience practices study
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