❶ Create strategic excitement

Generate excitement about a new direction before a crisis, e.g., sagging sales, occurs. Then people will be inspired, not scared.

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❷ Enlist "points of light"

Don't worry about gaining a consensus. Find people willing to try new things and let them inspire others.

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❸ Articulate the new market space (desired customer outcome)

Rely on "intelligent hypothesis" rather than research alone, since you are in a way inventing the future. Build cross-functional teams and let people in different product groups and disciplines see how they could contribute to the new market space.  >>>

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❹ Identify the value opportunities

A high-level team should use the customer-activity cycle to identify gaps (what customers could or should do) and fill them.

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❺ Build a compelling case

Use the customer-activity cycle to develop detailed stories that exert rational and emotional appeal.

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❻ Size the prize

Determine how much the bottom line will improve with deep customer focus.

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❼ Model the concept

Start with a customer workshop demonstrating the customer-activity cycle. Let customers validate, or amend, the value proposition (filling of gaps).

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❽ Get people working together

A hierarchical, departmental attitude doesn't lead to deep customer focus. Establish cross-functional customer service collaborations driven by shared passion for customers.

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❾ Get critical mass

Make it easy for customers to choose a new option by quantifying both the financial and non-financial benefits. Collect "before" and "after" data to create and educate the market.

Customer Value Proposition

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❿ Gather momentum

Because customer value is created using information, it can be used repeatedly. Once knowledge is gathered, it can be adapted to other markets and areas at low cost.

Customer Value Journey

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