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1. 2010 National BDPA Technology Conference
Turning a Business Crisis into Revenue
Restoring Customer Confidence After a Conflict
Michael Davis
July 28th – July 31st
Philadelphia, PA
@2010 MJD Management Group, LLC All Rights Reserved
3. Introduction
+ Guest Speaking
+ Pay-It-Forward Networking
+ Mentoring
Other
Consulting
Non Profit
Teaching
• International Business
• Management
• General Business 3
4. Workshop Objectives
• Review the importance of company culture
for customer engagement and advocacy
• Explain the customer mindset and supplier
relationship from the customer perspective
• Provide insight into customer perspective
and expectations during a crisis
• Provide strategy, tactics, and best practices
for restoring customer confidence after a
crisis
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6. Company Culture
• Difficult to express, but you know it when you
sense it
• Comprised of assumptions, values, norms, and
tangible signs of employees and their behaviors
• Customer impressions are from perceptions
and experiences at every touch point
• Culture types dictate strategy, tactics, and
execution for organizational change
Control (Hierarchy), Collaborate (Clan),
Compete (Market), Create (Adhocracy)
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7. Company Culture
• Understanding your company culture is the first
step on the customer advocacy journey
• Understanding the customer culture is essential
• Aligning IT with cultures and PM processes are
the most common reasons for project failures*
• Relationship with credibility and reputation
impacts the „investment‟ scope and time
required to restore customer confidence
*Source: Tilmann and Weinberger, 2004
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9. Customer Requirements
• Intense focus on value, ROI, TCO and
expense levels
• Tools to manage and reduce ongoing
complexity are strategic
• Productivity of knowledge workers
• Greater usage of industry standard
building blocks
• Vendor stability and strength are
important buying criteria
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10. What Customers Want
1. Listen to me 9. Show me your care
2. Know more than I do (about 10. Don‟t waste my time
your product or service)
3.Be easy to work with 11. Be honest
4. Give me what I came for 12. Offer alternatives if you
don‟t have what I want
5. Smile 13. High quality and low prices
6. Tell me your name 14. Don‟t try to sell me. Just help.
7. Acknowledge my presence 15. Do what you say
8. Don‟t treat me like I‟m an 16. Kept me informed
interruption
Source: Group Customer Service Survey - Kevin Stirtz, 2006
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11. What Customers Executives Want
• Assurance of IT uptime
• Easily accessible services,
processes, and technology
expertise
• Flexible availability mapped to
business needs
• Trained and knowledgeable staff
• Maximum return on investment
and quality of service
• Single point of accountability
• Partnership with joint risk
sharing
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12. How Important is Your Customer?
Yes No
Does CEO communicate customer experience is a key strategy?
Does the company‟s strategic plan(s) discuss the customer?
Is executive pay tied to customer experience objectives?
Do the BU‟s have a clear set of customer-centric objectives?
How frequently does management meet with the customer?
Does a formal closed-loop voice of the customer program exist?
Are your customer metrics customer experience relevant?
Are customer support activities closed loop?
Do you seek and actively listen to customer feedback? Commitment
Level
Are quality processes used for learning and improvement? # of Yes Items
Are customer advocacy actions incented and celebrated? 0 to 6 Low
7 to 9 Moderate
Does an active executive sponsor program exist? 10 to 12 High
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13. Crisis
Symptoms
Apparent Causes
Root Cause
Root Cause
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14. Customer View vs. Reality
Business or situation issues
Technology and support
Hardware and support failures,
patches, capabilities, cost
External
Economic, competition, regulation
Sales
Requirement issues, unrealistic
budgets, re-orgs, mgmt turnover
Customer process issues, training
Business acquisition, divestment, $$
Customer expectations
SLA vs. price paid for solution, time,
resource, etc…
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15. What is a Crisis?
• The most severe form of customer conflict
Business
Technical
Other
Any combination
• The problem management process fails to meet
customers‟ real or perceived expectations
• Customer formally complains that revenue or
penalties are at risk or the business relationship
is in jeopardy
• Proactively requests to obtain engagement and
awareness in advance of a deadline where a
negative outcome could be catastrophic
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16. Why do Customers Escalate?
Responsiveness issues Expectations
Problem management process is Custom expectations where
unable to resolve within required missed, misset, or never set
timeframe
Lack of confidence Chronic issues
A lack of confidence that the Chronic business issues or
problem solvers ability to resolve intra/inter organization issues (i.e.
the situation coupled with support product, partner, or project)
and business solution
Risk or loss Relationship
Significant financial loss, penalty, Business relationship is in
or bad publicity jeopardy or legal action possibility
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17. Customer Expectations During a Crisis
• A clear understanding of how the problem impacts
their business and operations
• An appropriate action plan with clear
contingencies, ownership, and dates
• Communication with management and technical
teams with regular updates on the progress or
problem resolution status
• Short-term solutions or workarounds to minimize
the business impact
• Recommendations that will prevent or mitigate the
crisis root cause from reoccurring
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18. Restoring Confidence
How do we get there from here?
It‟s both an art and a science...and time
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19. Restoring Confidence
• Begins with engagement at first crisis meeting
• Engaging a single focal point (trusted advisor)
• Executive empowered… „one throat to choke‟
• Take ownership and accept responsibility
• Acknowledge customer pain and business impact
• Jointly developing initial status report (situation,
scope, impact, status, resolution criteria)
• Obtaining buy-off for SMART action plan providing
relief, stabilization, and improvements
• Demonstrating consistent customer advocacy
• Leveraging closed loop life cycle and methodology
• Utilizing quality tools for root cause/opportunities
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20. Restoring Confidence
Customer
Advocacy
Trusted
Advisor
Crisis Life
Cycle
Crisis
Methodology
Best Practices
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21. Customer Advocacy
• Doing the „right thing‟ and putting customers first
• Really listening to customers, understanding them
and solving their problems
• Taking ownership of a customer call or issue, even
if it was misdirected to you
• Taking steps outside your job to help a customer
• Supporting sales and service team both before,
and when, they ask for help
• Infuse the company with deep customer insights
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22. Customer Advocacy
• Demonstrating a personal commitment to meeting
customer needs in everything you do, no matter
how far away you “think” you are from the customer
• Finding the customer link in daily activities; create a
introduction, “I provide value to customers by…”
• Going against the crowd if necessary and taking a
risk to highlight internally something that really
doesn‟t make sense for customers
• Communicating openly and honestly with customers
by always doing what you say you will do
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23. Trusted Advisor Role
Executive sponsored, Empowered as focal point
senior program manager
(with expense account)
Focuses resources on risk Owns restoring customer
mitigation and improvement confidence in products,
opportunities services, and people
Responsible for regular Focuses all necessary
communicating situation resources on problem
status to all parties resolution
Responsible for the overall Owns direct customer
situation success contact and visits
Provides internal/external Leverages quality tools
executive reviews
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24. Trusted Advisor Characteristics
Ombudsman, diplomat, Strong communication skills
conductor, truth teller, task (especially effective listener)
master, advocate, coalition
builder, negotiator
Knowledgeable Integrity
Accountable Accepts responsibility
Confident Can be firm and direct
Integrity Can do attitude
Sets proper expectations Keeps commitments (never
over commits)
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25. Crisis Management Life Cycle
Initiation Phase
Continuous Crisis declaration Active Phase
Improvement Phase Situation assessment
Acceptance Issue definition
Post mortem executed Notification Define resolution criteria
Action planning Action planning
Opportunities leveraged Project management
60 or 90 day checkpoint Project reviews
Closure Phase Monitor Phase
Formal agreement Checkpoint reviews
Internal surveys Normal problem mgt
Customer evaluation
Post mortem planning
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26. Crisis Methodology
Executives
HQ Operations
Risk
Assessment Issues
List Customer
Pain
Problem Quality
Action
Triggering Analysis Plan
Effect
Situation
Customer Satisfaction Situation
Resolution Resolution
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27. Opportunity Window
• Start intelligence gathering at
Initiation Phase
Internal business / support plans
Customer business, drivers, goals,
strategy, wish list
What keeps exec. up at night?
Other problem or issues
• Solve a few other executive items
• Opening during Active Phase
• Connect the dots with
improvements to business goals
• Ombudsman “.we…meeting your
future goals”
• Offer assistance for road maps,
strategy, solution
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28. Conclusion
• Company culture is an corporate asset
• Make an advocacy commitment and stick to it
• Do the „right thing‟ and putting customers first
• We do what is measured, incented, and celebrated
• Know what keeps your customer up at night
• Trusted advisors are the “last line of defense”
• Executive sponsorship/empowerment is mandatory
• Listening, leadership, and accountability
• Communicate openly and honestly to customers
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29. Contact Information
Michael Davis, Managing Director
MJD Management Group, LLC
michael@mjdmanagementgroup.com
404.654.0964
www.mjdmanagementgroup.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljohndavis777
michaeljdavis twitter
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31. Crisis Best Practices
Account Management
Communication
Process
Documentation
Quality
Metrics
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32. Crisis Resolution Best Practices
1. Engage the customer at all levels Account
Mgmt
2. Jointly define resolution and criteria Account
Mgmt
3. Own/lead the situation Account
Mgmt
4. Own the documentation Doc.
5. Accept responsibility for the problem Comm.
6. Communicate, communicate, communicate Comm.
7. Control the message Comm.
8. Focus on root cause Process
9. Focus on mitigating problem reoccurrence and Process
improvement opportunities
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33. Crisis Resolution Best Practices
10. Develop overall plan with stabilization, recovery, Doc.
and improvement components
11. Develop action plan with clear responsibility and Doc.
accountability
12. Develop multiple contingency plans Doc.
13. Conduct a joint post mortem Quality
14. Identify other improvement opportunities outside Account
crisis and assign ownership Mgmt
15. Jointly defined post monitoring time period Process
16. Facilitate executive sponsor assignment Account
Mgmt
17. Implement metrics to measure and improve Account
Mgmt
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34. Why IT Project Fail?
• The most common reasons for project failure are
rooted in the project management process and the
aligning of IT with organizational cultures *
*Source: Tilmann and Weinberger, 2004
• The primary causes for the failure of complex IT
projects:**
Poor planning
Unclear goals and objectives
Objectives changing during the project
Unrealistic time or resource estimates
Lack of executive support and user involvement
Failure to communicate and act as a team
Inappropriate skills
**Source: Coverdale Organization Cushing, 2002