Customer Experience
Retrofitting the magic vs duplicating the model
In business, when you’re small you think about growing and when you’re big you long for the advantages of being small. It’s a dichotomy for two seeming extremes – both of which will be familiar to many; At one end if you are successful it’s because customer experience is the business – but it’s the thing that may stop you growing. At the other end, not getting customer engagement on anything deeper than price is potentially the very thing that thwarts your continued growth, or worse, actually threatens your future.
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Branding is dead. Long live the brand!
I’d suggest that alot of what I do as Strategy Director at DNA is customer experience design. Simplistically if you design and deliver customer experiences you are branding.
“Brand” is all the past, present and future associations about an organisation that have some value in the eyes of the customer.
“Branding” is designing, building and operating everything in the present thereby creating positive memories and valuable future promises.
Customer experience is the interaction between a person and a business at any number of touchpoints. If you design and deliver customer experiences you are branding. So they are one and the same or another term for the same thing.
The problem with this thinking is that it is completely wrong.
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