Customer Requirements & Moments of Truth

  • Selecting a Mobile Phone Family Plan for a Family in Transition

    Moments of Truth in Consumer Telecommunications

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    When the kids go off to college, a family needs a new mobile phone plan to support multiple locations. In this Test-drive, we apply the Product Select and Buy Customer Scenario pattern and its key Moment of Truth.
    Jul. 5, 2007
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  • Research, Compare, and Select a New Retail Bank

    Customer Experience Test Drive of: Bank of America, Citibank, and Wells Fargo

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    We apply the Product Select and Buy Customer Scenario pattern and its “I want to find the product or service that best addresses my requirements” Moment of Truth to a customer’s research, comparison, and selection activities for a new retail bank.
    May. 3, 2007
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  • Outside In

    What’s Beyond Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0? Biz 3.0!

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    Tim O’Reilly got the world thinking in new ways about the Internet with his principles of Web 2.0. Expanding from these principles, we can define the next generation of business, or Biz 3.0.
    Apr. 19, 2007
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  • Dealing with a Moment of Truth in a “Purchase a Gift” Scenario

    The Case of the Purple Flip Flops: Test Drive of Linda Anderson.com

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    A failed shopping experience at lindaanderson.com demonstrates the importance of meeting and measuring your customers’ moments of truth. It also shows the importance of empowering support staff to fix a broken relationship.
    Mar. 15, 2007
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  • How to Get From Product 2.0 to BIZ 3.0

    Redeploy your Product-related Web 2.0 Services to Help Customers Reach Their Goals

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    Web 2.0 offers the ability to support each product lifecycle phase with Internet-enabled services. We call this approach: Product 2.0.
    Feb. 15, 2007
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  • Customer Innovation Guide: Taking the Fifth Step

    Open Up Your Products and Engage Customers in Peer Production

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    A key to innovation is to assume that customers will want to roll up their sleeves and customize your products and services to meet their needs. Make it easy for them to do so. Provide customization and configuration tools.
    Jan. 18, 2007
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  • Customer Innovation Guide: Taking the Second Step

    Provide Customers with Tools to Use to Reach Their Outcomes

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    This guide provides a self-assessment to see how far along your company is in making these tools available to your lead customers.
    Nov. 9, 2006
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  • Move Over Portals; Prepare for Scenario Nets!

    The Next E-Business Model: Task-Specific Cross-Company Workflows

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    We’ve invented a new e-business model. We call it Scenario Nets—interlinked Web sites that help you complete a complex task.
    Oct. 20, 2006
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  • Customer Innovation Guide: Identify and Study Lead Customers

    Have You Taken the First Step towards Customer-Led Innovation?

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    This guide provides a self-assessment to see how far along your company is in the important first step towards customer-led innovation by identifying, interviewing, and engaging with your lead customers.
    Oct. 19, 2006
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  • Customer Innovation Guide: Five Roles Your Customers Should Be Playing

    How Engaged Are Your Customers in Shaping the Future of Your Business?

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    This guide explores the five different roles that customers can play and companies can leverage to become an outside innovation organization.
    Oct. 11, 2006
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  • A Customer Experience Journey

    Signing Up for CitiCards Rewards Proves Daunting

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    Citibank changed the rewards on my preferred credit card, offering a bonus for paying household utilities with the credit card. But signing up the various utilities to take advantage of this offer proved to be somewhat of an exercise in f(utility).
    Oct. 5, 2006
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  • GE ColorXpress® Services

    Helping Customers Design Differentiated Products

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    By making it easy—and exciting—for customers to become part of the color design team, GE Plastics has created an innovative business that brings customers back time and time again.
    Sep. 21, 2006
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  • Help Customers Do Their Jobs

    Become a Vital Resource in Helping Your Customers Achieve Their Outcomes

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    The sixth critical success factor originally introduced in Customers.com is “Help customers do their jobs.” By helping them succeed in their jobs, you ensure that they will remain loyal to your products, services, and organization.
    Aug. 31, 2006
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  • Muji

    Engaging Customers to Help with Product Design

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    Muji—a well-known retail brand in Japan—has integrated customer input and suggestions into its core business operations. Muji encourages customers to submit product design ideas and to comment and vote on each others' ideas.
    Jun. 15, 2006
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  • Staples

    Customers Help Bring a Customer Experience Promise to Life

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    Staples, the office supplies retailer, has outpaced its competition by deeply understanding what its target customers—small business office supplies buyers—really care about.
    Jun. 8, 2006
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  • Customer Scenario® Design: An Approach for Outside Innovation

    Co-Designing Your Business with Your Customers

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    Here are the fundamentals of Customer Scenario Mapping, our methodology for outside-in co-design.
    Mar. 23, 2006
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  • The History of Customer Scenario® Design

    Co-Designed and Evolved with Customers

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    Our Customer Scenario® Mapping methodology was a long-term result of our first outside-in design session with customers, almost 20 years ago.
    Mar. 23, 2006
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  • Zopa Case Study: How Zopa Is Creating a New Financial Services Exchange

    Peer-to-Peer Lending and Borrowing for “Freeformers”

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    Here’s a description of what the Zopa team did to meet their target audiences’ key scenarios and to design their business once they clearly understood those scenarios.
    Feb. 23, 2006
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  • Streamline Business Processes that Impact the Customer

    Make Sure the Customer’s Point of View Is the Design Center for Continuous Process Improvement

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    The third critical success factor originally introduced in Customers.com® is “Streamline the Business Processes that Impact the Customer.”
    Jan. 12, 2006
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  • Target the Right Customers

    The First Step in Making It Easy for Customers to Do Business with You

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    Of the eight critical success factors originally introduced in Customers.com, “Target the right customer” is the first step towards making it easy for customers to do business with you.
    Oct. 20, 2005
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