At Open we identify and examine customer issues. At DNA we deliver on that thinking.

Customer Experience

Branding is dead. Long live the brand!

Martin Grant August 2011

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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