11. Connected Strategy: Building Continuous Customer Relationships for
Competitive Advantage by Nicolaj Siggelkow, Christian Terwiesch
https://a.co/53P54Rx
“At its core, a connected strategy transforms traditional, episodic
interactions with customers into connected customer relationships
that are characterized by continuous, low-friction, and
personalized interactions.“
12. WHY does the customer
engage with our product?
HOW does the system
respond?
HOW does the
customer engage?
WHAT can we learn to improve the
connection and the relationship (Feedback
Loop)
14. Laura is a new graduate with a
degree in CS. She wants to
become a technical PM but feels
that she is lacking some skills.
While at school, she was using
Coursera to complement her
education so she is better
prepared, she is trying to decide
what courses to take.
15. Laura started her journey at Coursera few years
ago, the platform has good understanding of Laura’s
journey so far, goals, past behavior history and
interests so it can recognize and translate her
signals accordingly.
I need to find a way to upskill myself so I can be
competitive and get a job as a PM in a Fintech
company.
17. Laura knows what she
needs
Laura knows what her goal is at this point in her journey, she understand how to find what
she needs, she is in the driver seat. The platform provides Laura with all the tools to help
her easily find what she needs so it can accurately respond to Laura’s requests.
Respond to
request
Laura
knows what
she needs
Curated
offering
18.
19.
20. Laura knows what she
needs
Laura knows her goal and have been signaling to the platform about it.
The platform detects the signal and upon logging in, provides Laura with curated offering
to match her need.
Respond to
request
Laura
knows what
she needs
Curated
offering
21.
22.
23. Laura has a latent need
Laura is not sure what she needs to do next. The platform detects that she is looking into
different courses randomly and that she might need assistance. This triggers a coach
behavior to help Laura move along her journey.
24.
25.
26. Laura has a latent need
Coursera is detecting signals based on Laura’s behavior and automatically signs Laura up
for courses that will help her reach he goals; all she needs to do is log in and start taking
the course.
30. Engage Utilize Move On
RECOGNIZE the
customer’s need
REQUEST the
desired option
RESPOND and provide
the desired option
How does the data flow?
What does the customer do?
Where are the friction points?
Latent Need
Decide on
options
What does the customer see?
Awareness of
Need
Look for options Order Pay
31. What does the customer see? - Visibility to ACTUAL screens, deep dive to vertices [Figma, Mural,
Sketch, Miro]
What does the customer do? - Visibility to customer behavior [Amplitude, Mixpanel, Heap]
How does the data flow? - Data In/Out at each step, customer profile [Data Lake]
Where are the friction points? - Cross teams / X-Functional workshops [Design Thinking, Design Sprints, JBD]
32. Latent need
Awareness
of need
Look for
options
Decide on right
option
Order Pay Engage Utilize Move On
Request
the desired option to meet the need. Respond
to provide the desired option.
Paths to discovery Paths to acquisition
Recognize
the customer’s need.
33. Key Takeaways
X-Functional collaboration requires empathy and
understanding.
Business frameworks can also be tools for designers.
Pay attention to the E2E journey.
Understanding the customer’s awareness of their need can
help shape how we design the interaction.
Knowing what we know / don’t know about our customers
can shape how we connect with them.
Good evening, morning and afternoon everyone!
I am very excited to be talking to you from Los Gatos, CA !
Today I will be talking about driving better connection with our customers through data and user journey.
Before I talk about customer journey, I will share a bit about my journey and what brought me to where I am today. Then I will touch briefly on the Connected strategy framework and share a use case that demonstrate how we can apply the framework when we design and lastly I will share some tactical information on how to use this framework when you design and build products in your own company.
So let’s start with my journey
Currently, I am a principle designer at Intuit, financial software company that develops and sells financial, accounting, and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants, and individuals working on Quickbook in product discovery and growth..
But before we start, a little bit about my journey and how I got to where I am today…
But before we start, a little bit about my journey and how I got to where I am today…
But before we start, a little bit about my journey and how I got to where I am today…
But before we start, a little bit about my journey and how I got to where I am today…
But before we start, a little bit about my journey and how I got to where I am today…
So why think about frameworks? Grate products are built through collaboration of many stake holders from X functional teams. In Intuit for example we work in triads of an XD – the designer, a PM – the product manage and PD – the developer. we also work very closely with data scientists and marketing. As such, it is very important that we learn to understand each others language so we can have more empathy to the specific problems that each one of us is trying to solve. So for me it means learning as much as I can about the other things that are involved in the products that I build. Whether it’s educating myself about blockchain when I build blocjchain application of education when I build platform for universities etc. I am very interested in business frameworks and methodologies that I can ad to my tool box when trying to solve business problems through design. And that’s what brought me to discover the Connected Strategy.
The connected strategy, which was developed by Nicolaj Siggelkow, Christian Terwiesch is a great example for a framework that can help designers think about how to connect with customers in a relevant and meaningful way.
The connected strategy book is really a business framework on how drive growth but what resonated most with me is how to leverage the customer’s journey to create, as they say in the book “continuous, low friction and personalized interactions”.
This is just an example of one business framework and how we can integrate it into our design process.
So if you think about the main phases of the customer journey and the steps they go through, you have 3 main phases… Recognize…..
To demonstrate how to apply this framework to design I will share a use case from Coursera, which is a MOOC – a massive open on line course platform. I am not affiliated with them in any way and I choose them over Intuit because I like the challenge of looking at other companies and trying to understand how they apply different frameworks to design and build their business.
She is already a customer
Coursera has data about her – profile, preferences, previous courses, behavioral data, etc…
To better understand how we can connect with Laura in a relevant and meaningful way, we need to understand where she is at her journey
- Follow the journey to understand the behavior
Detect signals
Determine what the signals are, is she aware of her need? Does she have a latent need? How should we interact with her?
Two things can happen with Laura, she might be aware that she has a need or she might have a need that she is not aware of yet but the platform can detect based on her behavior… and when we build the product, we need to account for all these possibilities so we are prepared to respond to Lauras need in the best personalized way that is sutibal to her at the point that she is in.
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