The document discusses the concept of customer centricity, emphasizing its importance for business success and why many products fail due to a lack of understanding customer needs. It highlights methods to achieve customer centricity, including empathy, feedback loops, and investment in technology, using examples like the failure of Google Glass and Juicero, as well as the success story of Sephora. The key takeaway is that organizations must prioritize customer needs and continuously innovate to stay relevant in a competitive market.

1. Understanding
Customer Centricity

2. About Me
Zehra Mehdi
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3. Agenda
1 Failed Products & why products fail?
2 Customer centricity & why it is important
3 Agile & customer centricity
4 How to achieve customer centricity
5 Success Story
6 Q&A

4. Failed Products
Studies show that 60-80% of products
fail.

5. Year 2012
A device of the future
Priced at $1500
A hands-free smart phone letting users access
web, camera, maps and other apps through
voice commands
A wearable technology that just didn’t fit well
with the consumer.

6. Google Glass

7. Year 2016
Raised $120 million in funding
A juicer with a price tag of $700!
Wifi enabled and equipped with a special camera to
scan QR codes to check expiration dates on the juice
packs
Provided fresh squeezed fruits and vegetables
sourced directly from the farms
Zero cleanup for a usually messy process
After launch, consumers realized that the juice
pouches could be squeezed by hand, so why bother
paying so much for the machine?

8. Juicero Press by Juicero

9. So, what was the problem?
Sometimes consumers are not ready for a
product yet or sometimes they can't find a
use for it.
#1 reason products fail is because of a
failure to understand customer needs and
wants.
Such products failed to create value
Organizations failed to put the customers
first.

10. Customer Centricity
Putting customers at the center of
everything you do as a business.
Knowing your customer.
Listening to customers and
understanding their needs or pains
- Practicing Empathy!
Deeply understanding the effects
of your organizations decisions on
the customers.
Creating a delightful experience at
every stage of the product usage
or creating that wow moment.
Getting constant feedback

11. Why is customer centricity important?
Back then, customers had fewer choices
so organizations could get away with
mediocre services.
Today, every industry has competition. So
customers have a lot of options.
Power have shifted to the customers.
They have sky high expectations -
Everything is shared on social media - the
good, the bad, the ugly!
Famous Quote - Customers are always
“beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied,”
and if you focus on always trying to make
them happier, it’s hard to go wrong.

12. Some Statistics
Out of the 100 most
empathetic companies, the
top 10 “increased in value
more than twice as much as
the bottom 10, and generated
50% more earning.
Harvard Business Review
In the US, the cost of customer
switching due to poor
customer experience is $1.6
trillion
Accenture
84% of customers say the
experience a company
provides are as important as
the products and services
Salesforce

13. Agile and Customer Centricity
First principle based on the Agile Manifesto - “highest priority is
to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of
valuable software.”
Customers are part of the solution from the beginning rather
than receiving only progress reports or having meetings at
scheduled intervals.
User stories are always written from the point of view of the
customer.
Build, Measure, Learn feedback loops - continuously deliver, get
feedback and improve
Scaled Agile Inc brought customer centricity at the center of the
SAFe® 5.0 model. It defines customer centricity as a mindset: a
customer centric organization will deeply consider the effects on
its customers every time it makes a decision.
*Refer to Scaled Agile

14. Achieving Customer Centricity
Listening to customers and
thinking from their point of view to
understand their needs
Creating products that solve those
needs
Using Design Thinking tools like
empathy maps, user personas and
customer journey maps**
Get to know your
customers through empathy maps
Investing in technology and
collecting data and using it to
enhance user experience
Investing in AI and machine
learning to provide personalized
product recommendations
Innovating and improving all the
time!

15. Success Story - Sephora
A beauty lover’s favorite and a powerful beauty chain. Has 1900 stores
worldwide.
Unique and personalized in-store experience providing a wide range of
beauty products and services
First one to start the try-before-you-buy for cosmetics
Invested heavily in technology and innovation - own innovation lab called
Sephora Labs!
A large online community for its “Beauty Insiders” and a loyalty and rewards
program
Educational videos - teach customers how to use different products
Online chat - live chat with other Sephora shoppers
“Quiz” tools - provide answers to get personalized product
recommendations.
Stayed ahead of consumers’ adoption of natural and organic beauty -
introduced Clean Beauty products

16. Takeaways
Organizations have to be customer centric to survive
and thrive.
Not just the leadership, but each individual should
cultivate a customer centric attitude.
Be passionate about the customer, show empathy,
focus on their needs, and get feedback
To stay relevant, invest in technology and leverage
data to make smart decisions.
Constantly reinvent, innovate and work towards
creating unique experiences so customers keep
coming back!

17. Questions?