The Customer Catalyst
How to Drive Sustainable Business Growth in the Customer Economy
Chris Adlard, Daniel Bausor
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The Customer Catalyst
How to Drive Sustainable Business Growth in the Customer Economy
Chris Adlard, Daniel Bausor
About This Book
How organisations can drive growth in the Customer Economy
The Digital Revolution has changed the business landscape in remarkable ways and will continue to do so. Organisations across industries and around the world are being disrupted and digitised at increasing pace â putting far more power in the hands of both customers and end-consumers. The traditional inside-out, functionally-siloed business model, typical of the product and sales-led growth era is over. The Customer Catalyst shows how organisations can put customers truly at the heart of their business and catalyse genuine, sustainable growth.
Future business models are no longer about functions â they are beginning to revolve around customers. Customer-led companies will, over time, unpack their static functional activities and transform their structure. Customer advocates already wield massive influence in a customer's buying process, and this is only set to increase. This is already changing the role and nature of business functions and Sales is no longer seen as the only source of growth. The Customer Economy is placing greater demands on businesses and offers greater rewards to the businesses that meet and exceed customer expectations. This invaluable book will enable readers to:
- Lead their organisations to more profitable and sustainable growth
- Transform their organisations to become truly customer-centric with the C-change growth engine
- Explore in-depth stories from leaders of companies such as Zoom, Signify, Starling Bank, Ritz Carlton, Microsoft and Finastra with frank advice and practical stepsto achieve success
- Help their companies adapt to, and profit from, the new realities of the Customer Economy
- Gain important insights from business leaders on best practice in key customer-centric growth areas
The Customer Catalyst shows businesses how to survive the transition to the Customer Economy, transform to align around today's dynamic customer needs, and ultimately, drive sustainable business growth.
Frequently asked questions
CHAPTER 1
VOICE
Keep your fingers on the customer's pulse and react accordingly
C-CHANGE GROWTH DRIVERS
- Organisations should put in place a Voice of the Customer (VoC) programme to find out what their customers really think about their brand, products and services. This is often the starting point when it comes to driving customer-led growth.
- Embed your VoC programme into your company's culture. The VoC programme is not a one-off, single-strand activity. Instead, it should be considered as a continuous customer listening channel. VoC programmes take on board feedback from multiple data and knowledge sources, multiple customer segment groups and personas, and across many regions (national or international).
- Companies should avoid the classic VoC pitfalls â for example, by only running a net promoter system (NPS) survey once a year and calling it âVoCâ or just doing it to tick the box of listening to customers. This can produce completely skewed results. Often in such a scenario, the NPS survey delivers invalid responses that ultimately lead to, or simply just validate, poor business decisions. Instead, the VoC programme should be authentic and probe for deeper meaning and root causes.
- Create an outcome-oriented VoC team. Once the continuous customer listening channel has been firmly established, organisations should be prepared to drive actions and improvements on a regular and constant business. Some improvements can be executed quickly and have an immediate positive impact on Customer Experience (CX). Other changes are cross-functional and more medium term â nevertheless, they must be planned and actioned over time.
âWe have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speakâ.â Epictetus
âMost people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to replyâ.â Stephen R. Covey
âWhat good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds?ââ James 2: 14, NIV