What Journeys Really Are: Customers’ Paths And Perceptions As They Pursue A Goal

To focus on customers, your organization may adopt “customer journeys.” Unfortunately, you’ll fail if you conflate journeys with concepts like customer lifecycle or business process, or if you narrowly view them as customers’ interactions with your firm. This report helps you succeed by sharing key truths about journeys and what you need to do differently as a result: A journey starts before customers first interact with you and ends only when they accomplish their goals; it includes interactions with people and organizations other than you; customers bring baseline emotions to a journey, and how they reflect on it affects future behaviors; and journeys don’t occur in isolation but influence each other.