“By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator for B2B.”
- Walker
Customer Centric Solutions LLC was founded with the goal of helping companies better focus on their customers.
We believe that a great customer experience is both a necessity and a competitive advantage. That easy, effective, and memorable experiences don’t simply happen by chance. They are designed.
They’re designed after first having an in-depth understanding of customer motivations, expectations, wants & needs, and delivered through both people and technology at different points in the customer journey.
We bring the expertise and experience of a large firm without the high overhead and cost. We’ve built a proven-methodology for defining both who your most important customers are and how you can deliver an experience that meets or exceeds their expectations.
We are committed to building customer experiences that are easy, effective, and memorable. Easy in that they are frictionless. Effective in that they directly serve a customer need. Memorable in that they tap into your customer’s emotions.
We help you determine the moments of truth along the customer journey that matter most to your targeted customers. The points in the journey, that if done right and with consistency will drive increased acquisition, engagement, and retention.
In May 2021, John Gusiff (Founder), sat down with Adrian Tennant, VP of Insights at Bigeye agency and creator of the In Clear Focus podcast to chat about applying design thinking and jobs-to-be-done principles and methods to CX Strategy and Experience Design.
Becoming customer centric requires a mindset of curiosity. Asking questions, listening, and observing. Seeking foremost to understand, not to explain.
We help you build a clearer, deeper understanding of your customer’s mindset. We uncover what motivates them, what values they hold, and what is truly at the core of their affinity and emotional connection to you and your brand.
How do you make sure you are delivering on your overall brand promise? Do you have an overall CX Strategy, unique to your brand, that delivers on the functional, emotional, and social needs of your targeted customers? We’ll help you define that!
Looking for a better way to segment customers? Our approach helps you uncover the different elements of value that form the basis of the unique bond between you and your targeted customer segments.
Want to better understand switching behavior, why people “hire” your product or service? We leverage the JTBD interview method to determine the motivational forces at play (push, pull, habit, and anxiety) as customers consider your product or service offering?
Journey maps are an important platform on which to build a better understanding of customer expectations, wants and needs. We use a data-driven approach to journey mapping integrating both qualitative and quantitative research.
The Design Sprint process, created by Jake Knapp of Google Ventures, has proven to be an effective method for quickly conceptualizing, designing, and testing new product or service concepts. We’ve had great success leveraging this process to envision the ideal customer journey.
Great experiences don’t happen by chance. They are designed. Experience blueprinting helps you co-create, think through and map out both on-stage experiences as well as back-stage operations. It helps you align cross-functional teams on what it will take to deliver the desired customer experience.
- Walker
- Marketing Metrics
- Bain & Company
- ThinkJar Research
- Murphy & Murphy
We’ve worked with some of the most highly respected brands in their industries each striving to leverage customer experience as a competitive advantage.
We take great pride in helping our clients align their customer experience strategy with their brand positioning and become more customer centric.
What is our share of garage (e.g., cars, motorcycles, power equipment)? What is the life-time value of the household? How to we drive leads or fill auto service bays in our dealer network? How do we keep existing owners in the Honda family?
What are the motivations behind why homeowners take on different home improvement projects? How do homeowners prioritize what to fix, upgrade, repair and maintain around the home? What types of projects do they take on themselves (DIY) vs. seek out a pro?
What are patient expectations when being discharged from the hospital? How do you make their transport experience part of the overall continuum of patient care? How do you partner with hospitals and SNFs to make the patient transfer experience a positive experience?
How do we envision the ideal experience at different stages of the journey? How do we tell the overall brand story better? Increase engagement with the brand? Improve the online and retail store shopping experience? Demonstrate we stand behind our product?
What are the motivations behind why different people travel? What’s the difference between a traveler and a tourist? What do people like or dislike about small group travel? To what degree to they appreciate a local, culturally immersive experience? Are sustainable travel practices important to them?
What do different customer segments value? When a core differentiator like “quality” is being questioned can you overcome it? How do you take unique retail experience and bring it online? How do you serve the needs of a diverse customer base?
We enjoy what we do and sharing what we’ve learned. We’re happy to talk with you about your CX initiative at whatever stage of the process you are at.