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Roadmapping Customer Success Maturity
The document outlines the customer success maturity roadmap, detailing five levels from 'Heroic' to 'Optimizing' that guide organizations in enhancing their customer success processes. It emphasizes the importance of defining core processes, implementing data-driven management practices, and fostering a customer success culture across all teams. The roadmap encourages companies to regularly assess their maturity and evolve their strategies to better meet market demands and customer needs.
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- 1. Roadmapping Customer Success Maturity ©2017 Totango Proprietary and Confidential
- 2. Register today! www.customersuccesssummit.com • Thepremier customer success event in the industry • March 5-6 at The Palace Hotel, San Francisco • Kick off 2018 strong with best practices • Network, learn, collaborate, and have fun with peers • Early Bird pricing runs through December 31
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- 4. Where do westart?
- 5. Where do westart? Where do we go from here?
- 6. What is theMaturity Roadmap? • Defines core Customer Success processes and KPIs • Assesses and baselines an organization’s current CS capabilities • Aligns roadmap to advance business outcomes, mitigate CS risks • Helps meet market demand for a managed Customer Experience © 2017 Totango Proprietary and Confidential
- 7. The Maturity Roadmap 1:Heroic • CS is ad-hoc and reactive, but Core CS Processes may be defined 2: Mapped • Customer Journey is mapped, Health Defined, Core CS Processes are defined 3: Practicing • All Processes are defined, documented, standardized, and integrated to each other 4: Managing • Processes are measured by collecting data on them and quality 5: Optimizing • Continuous Process Improvement adopted by quantitative and qualitative feedback, piloting new ideas © 2017 Totango Proprietary and Confidential
- 8. Culture of CustomerSuccessLevel2:Mapped Journey Mapping Health Onboarding Growth Support Renewal Customer Analytics Level3:Practicing Formal CS Practice Democratize Customer Data Early Warning System Escalation Management Upsell Voice of Customer / Feedback Churn Analysis Level4:Managing CS Best Practice Management Portfolio Management Customer Prioritization Customer Acquisition Financials Advocacy Analysis Level5:Optimizing Causal Analysis & Refinement Risk Management Product Evolution / Customer Advisory Board CS Process Innovation © 2017 Totango Proprietary and Confidential Customer Team Alignment: CS, PS, Support Customer Team Consolidation Departmental Alignment: Sales, Marketing, Finance Culture of Customer Success
- 9. Level 1: Heroic Success CustomerSuccess as a discipline often reactive and relies on heroic actions. Characteristics: • No formal Customer Journey • Customer data is scattered • Processes are undefined, or inconsistent • No systems to manage Customer Success • Business often led by escalation © 2017 Totango Proprietary and Confidential
- 10. Let’s get Started! • Define business objectives and priorities • Review your end-to-end Customer Journey • Segment your Customers • Define “healthy” Customers (based on churn risk) • Identify, consolidate Customer data • Define core CS processes • Onboard • Adopt • Grow • Retain / Renew • Set a cadence for review
- 11. Level 2: Mapped Customer Successis focused on delivering value on a customer-by-customer basis. Characteristics: • Coverage of Customer Journey w/ outreach cadence • Key Segments, Health are applied • Customer Data & Content is accessible to team • Delivery process and value attainment may vary per-customer • CS functions may be centralized • Value attainment is clearer, but surprises still happen © 2017 Totango Proprietary and Confidential
- 12. Formalize Proactive Success • Charter a CS Team with accountable leader • Build internal partnerships, process alignment • Centralize/aggregate Customer data and content • Segment by value, incorporate value attainment into Health • Regularly review churn, revise health (based on escalation) • Deploy an Early Warning System, pre-empt escalations • Open Lines of Communication to Customers
- 13. Level 3: Practicing Customer Successis formalized, standard and proactive processes applied through Customer Journey Characteristics: • CS is a formally chartered function, partnered with the rest of the business • Proactive processes are fully defined, universally applied • Customer Health & Early Warning System drive risk management • CS is regularly reviewed, optimized • Customer Data is Democratized © 2017 Totango Proprietary and Confidential
- 14. Manage the Process • Identify and consolidate your Best Practices • Focus on Growth: Internal = LCV, Customers = Strategic Value • CSM Book = Portfolio Management • Health & Segmentation -> Customer Prioritization • Align and integrate Customer Acquisition • Build Customer Advocacy
- 15. Level 4: Managing Customer Successis proactive, data- driven, and analytical Characteristics: • Evolving Best Practices • Focus on Lifetime Value • Prioritization of Customers • Customer Champions & Advocates © 2017 Totango Proprietary and Confidential
- 16. Culture of CustomerSuccess • Customer Success is Everybody’s Business! • Approach Customer as Partners • Continuous Process Improvement • Experimentation, Causal Analysis
- 17. Level 5: Optimizing Customer Successmanages risks and opportunities well in advance; and it is embedded in the company culture. Characteristics: • Customer Success as a Culture • Proactively course-correct for the future © 2017 Totango Proprietary and Confidential
- 18. Where do yougo from here? • Review your current maturity level, include feedback from multiple stakeholders internal and external • Crawl, Walk, Run - Bridge gaps before advancing • Commit to evolution on a regular basis 2-4 times per year © 2017 Totango Proprietary and Confidential
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