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A couple of years ago, I read a book that changed the way I thought about my business — and my life: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. My main takeaway was Gay’s framework for describing four “zones” that we all function within: The Zone of Incompetence: When you’re in this zone, you’re doing things you’re not good at — and that others are. Gay suggests we all avoid doing these tasks by delegating them to someone else or finding another workaround. MORE
This morning I sent an email to my payroll provider. Not to a generic inbox, but to the real live person who’s assigned my account. A moment later, I received the following auto response: “XXXXX XXXXXXX is no longer employed with us. MORE
As cities and countries around the world grapple with plans to reopen, we’re all wondering what our “new normal” will look like — both personally and professionally. But if you’re reading this post, you don’t have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines and watching it unfold. To succeed throughout the rest of the pandemic and whatever comes next, you need to proactively develop a customer experience strategy that will serve both your customers and your business. MORE
It’s the time for service designers from around the world to connect. MORE
We’re in the midst of the most rapid change to human behavior that many of us will ever see. What you knew about your customers back in January just doesn’t apply now — and if you’ve got existing journey maps, they are officially out of date. Prior to the pandemic, my general advice for when organizations needed to update their journey maps went something like this: Think about this activity like you think about servicing your car. Maintenance Mode. MORE
It’s the first day of spring, and we’re looking forward to enjoying a few days in our favorite Chicago season when we travel there for our Journey Mapping and Facilitation bootcamp on May 8 and 9. Day 1 mirrors that of our signature journey mapping bootcamp to help you build a strong foundation in the concepts and methods of journey mapping. MORE
The emerging role of the journey manager represents one of the most important developments since the creation of the Chief Customer Officer, yet many in the customer experience field have yet to encounter a journey manager within their organizations—or to develop a working knowledge of their typical job responsibilities and challenges. That’s not surprising: Compared to the 1.6 million product managers that you’ll find today on LinkedIn, journey managers number fewer than 2,000. MORE
In-person training won ’ t be back for a while… But the need to understand your customers’ behaviors, needs, and expectations remains as important as ever. MORE
If you’re looking for customer experience or service design inspiration, look no further. We’ve just announced our ten 2020 Service Design Award finalists. And no, that’s not a typo… Covid through a wrench into our annual awards schedule.). The Finalists. Commercial Work. MORE
When I bumped into a former colleague at a recent conference, he was eager to chat about a journey mapping initiative his organization (a major financial services provider) was kicking off. But I got a blank look when I asked what journeys his team planned to focus on. “We We were going to do the whole lifecycle,” he told me. “We We want to map from the awareness phase all the way through retention and loyalty.”. That boil-the-ocean approach is common, but problematic. MORE
This past weekend I tackled a long overdue task: Changing all of my old and not-so-secure passwords. What can I say… These are exciting times.) MORE
We’re in the midst of the most momentous and rapid change to human behavior that many of us will ever see. Even as countries around the world look to ease restrictions on citizens’ movement, this transformation will have a lasting impact on both our personal and professional lives for months and years to come. That means the need to understand your customers’ behaviors, needs, and expectations is greater than ever. MORE
While my co-author Harley and I were prepping Outside In for publication back in the spring of 2012, I learned about the strange practice of soliciting “blurbs,” those pithy words of praise on a book’s back cover that tout the messages inside. MORE
Join me on Wednesday, August 12 at 1:00pm ET for a webinar with the Toronto Customer Experience Professionals Association. It’s FREE for CXPA members and CAD$65 for everyone else. Webinar overview. Journey mapping has reached fever pitch in the customer experience world. MORE
While some in-person customer experience conferences in parts of the world less affected by the pandemic seem to be moving forward for fall 2020, there’s no clear indication of when the global events industry will get back to some kind of new normal. MORE
Of the four types of customer journey maps , the current-state map is the most ubiquitous. That’s not surprising, given how many organizations are trying to understand their customers’ current pain points and improve the customer experience. Wondering how you can get started mapping your own organization’s current-state journey map? Follow these 10 steps: 1. Identify an important problem area through existing (mostly quantitative) data. MORE
Hoo boy. It’s crazy out there. But you — yes, YOU — have an amazing opportunity to support both your fellow humans and the organization you work for. You have an opportunity to make changes to your offerings and your customer experience today that will: Support your customers’ wildly changing needs and expectations, Drive crucial revenue in the short term, and. Build customer loyalty that will ensure the long-term viability of your business. MORE
Note #1 — I’m posting this now because: It’s timely to the launch of Amazon’s new show Making the Cut , which premiered on March 27, 2020. It will be, I hope, a helpful reference for people designing integrated TV + shopping experiences in the future. It gave my brain something to focus on other than the coronavirus — and maybe you’re looking for such a distraction, too. MORE
Never in my life have I witnessed so many people collectively anticipate the turn of a calendar page. Yet many of the challenges from 2020 still remain. MORE
It’s the beginning of a new year, which is always the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past and make grand plans for the future. And just in case you’re wondering, that’s exactly what we’re doing here at Kerry Bodine & Co.) As part of that effort, I recently took a look back at our most popular posts of 2018 — and I wanted to share them with you here. I hope they inspire your work for 2019 and beyond! So without further ado, let’s begin the countdown…. MORE
I’m thrilled to announce the addition of Jade to the Bodine & Co. As our project manager, she’s working both with clients and behind the scenes to streamline our processes and communications — and, of course, create effective, easy, and enjoyable client experiences across all of our speaking and consulting engagements. Previously, Jade spent seven years at Cydcor, a global leader in outsourced sales and marketing, as a business process analyst and IT project manager. MORE
This post celebrates Service Design Day and everyone who’s working to create our new normal. While walking across the Millennium Bridge in London a few years ago, I noticed a group of people standing around and looking down curiously at a man who was laying at their feet. My first thought was concern: Is this man alright? Is he sick? Does he need help? But as I got closer, I realized that he was not only fine — he was painting. I would find out later that the man was Ben Wilson, a.k.a. MORE
The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in a new way of life for people around the world. And, no big shocker here: Our collective behavior is impacting businesses large and small. With data starting to trickle out about what people are actually doing during the time of COVID-19, I thought it would be helpful to consolidate this information so that businesses can make informed decisions about how to move forward. I’ll continue to update this as I receive more data. MORE
This journey map for the Exploratorium , a science museum in San Francisco, is one of my favorites. That’s because the folks at the former design agency Adaptive Path (which was acquired by Capital One back in 2014) did a great job of highlighting two key things: 1) The entirety of the customer experience. MORE
On Wednesday I presented a webinar with the Toronto Customer Experience Professionals Association. We got a ton of great questions about the content I presented. So many, in fact, that I didn’t have time to answer them all on the webinar itself. MORE
In 2020, many contact centers were forced into “do or die” changes in order to overcome the challenges brought on by the pandemic. However, these often heroic changes haven’t come without their consequences. MORE
I’m thrilled to announce our new three-part open-enrollment virtual journey mapping bootcamp. And the best part is, you can mix and match the sessions based on your role or business needs. MORE
I’m a strong proponent of including a short description of the customer persona on each journey map. Otherwise, how do you know whose journey is being represented?) MORE
It’s been… a year. And while it feels a bit odd to celebrate 2020 with a “Best of” post, I wanted to share the Bodine & Co. content that CX professionals leaned on most during this trying time. MORE
Imagine you’re in the midst of a journey mapping workshop and your customers are bombarding you—in a good way—with insights about their needs and expectations. Somewhere along the way, a participant recounts a particularly bad experience, and you feel compelled to explain the behind-the-scenes factors that derailed her experience. Well, that’s because of a regulation we don’t have control over,” you begin to say. MORE
Amazon tells me that I last purchased Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness on August 26, 2010. The timing was fortuitous. MORE
Kerry Bodine
FEBRUARY 6, 2021
I’m a strong proponent of including a short description of the customer persona on each journey map. Otherwise, how do you know whose journey is being represented?)
Kerry Bodine
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
If you’re looking for customer experience or service design inspiration, look no further. We’ve just announced our ten 2020 Service Design Award finalists. And no, that’s not a typo… Covid through a wrench into our annual awards schedule.). The Finalists. Commercial Work.
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Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 27, 2021
Never in my life have I witnessed so many people collectively anticipate the turn of a calendar page. Yet many of the challenges from 2020 still remain.
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 30, 2021
This morning I sent an email to my payroll provider. Not to a generic inbox, but to the real live person who’s assigned my account. A moment later, I received the following auto response: “XXXXX XXXXXXX is no longer employed with us.
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Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 18, 2021
While my co-author Harley and I were prepping Outside In for publication back in the spring of 2012, I learned about the strange practice of soliciting “blurbs,” those pithy words of praise on a book’s back cover that tout the messages inside.
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Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 23, 2021
Amazon tells me that I last purchased Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness on August 26, 2010. The timing was fortuitous.
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 14, 2021
In 2020, many contact centers were forced into “do or die” changes in order to overcome the challenges brought on by the pandemic. However, these often heroic changes haven’t come without their consequences.
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 9, 2021
I’m thrilled to announce our new three-part open-enrollment virtual journey mapping bootcamp. And the best part is, you can mix and match the sessions based on your role or business needs.
Kerry Bodine
JUNE 1, 2020
This post celebrates Service Design Day and everyone who’s working to create our new normal. While walking across the Millennium Bridge in London a few years ago, I noticed a group of people standing around and looking down curiously at a man who was laying at their feet. My first thought was concern: Is this man alright? Is he sick? Does he need help? But as I got closer, I realized that he was not only fine — he was painting. I would find out later that the man was Ben Wilson, a.k.a.
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Kerry Bodine
AUGUST 14, 2020
On Wednesday I presented a webinar with the Toronto Customer Experience Professionals Association. We got a ton of great questions about the content I presented. So many, in fact, that I didn’t have time to answer them all on the webinar itself.
Kerry Bodine
MAY 11, 2020
As cities and countries around the world grapple with plans to reopen, we’re all wondering what our “new normal” will look like — both personally and professionally. But if you’re reading this post, you don’t have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines and watching it unfold. To succeed throughout the rest of the pandemic and whatever comes next, you need to proactively develop a customer experience strategy that will serve both your customers and your business.
Kerry Bodine
AUGUST 25, 2020
It’s the time for service designers from around the world to connect.
Kerry Bodine
AUGUST 21, 2020
In-person training won ’ t be back for a while… But the need to understand your customers’ behaviors, needs, and expectations remains as important as ever.
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Kerry Bodine
JULY 21, 2020
While some in-person customer experience conferences in parts of the world less affected by the pandemic seem to be moving forward for fall 2020, there’s no clear indication of when the global events industry will get back to some kind of new normal.
Kerry Bodine
JULY 20, 2020
This past weekend I tackled a long overdue task: Changing all of my old and not-so-secure passwords. What can I say… These are exciting times.)
Kerry Bodine
MARCH 18, 2020
Hoo boy. It’s crazy out there. But you — yes, YOU — have an amazing opportunity to support both your fellow humans and the organization you work for. You have an opportunity to make changes to your offerings and your customer experience today that will: Support your customers’ wildly changing needs and expectations, Drive crucial revenue in the short term, and. Build customer loyalty that will ensure the long-term viability of your business.
Kerry Bodine
AUGUST 1, 2020
Join me on Wednesday, August 12 at 1:00pm ET for a webinar with the Toronto Customer Experience Professionals Association. It’s FREE for CXPA members and CAD$65 for everyone else. Webinar overview. Journey mapping has reached fever pitch in the customer experience world.
Speaker: Esther Kieft, Delivery Manager (Group Technology) at Domino's Pizza Enterprises
It is well known that empathy is a key ingredient in creating lovable products, yet not all products offer the best customer experience. From meeting stringent deadlines to insufficient resources being available to carry out customer research, there is a range of reasons why customer empathy could be missing in product development. Join Esther Kieft, as she breaks down using empathy at a distance to evaluate the problems that customers are experiencing during this global health crisis.
Kerry Bodine
APRIL 4, 2018
When I bumped into a former colleague at a recent conference, he was eager to chat about a journey mapping initiative his organization (a major financial services provider) was kicking off. But I got a blank look when I asked what journeys his team planned to focus on. “We We were going to do the whole lifecycle,” he told me. “We We want to map from the awareness phase all the way through retention and loyalty.”. That boil-the-ocean approach is common, but problematic.
Kerry Bodine
APRIL 9, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in a new way of life for people around the world. And, no big shocker here: Our collective behavior is impacting businesses large and small. With data starting to trickle out about what people are actually doing during the time of COVID-19, I thought it would be helpful to consolidate this information so that businesses can make informed decisions about how to move forward. I’ll continue to update this as I receive more data.
Kerry Bodine
MAY 15, 2020
We’re in the midst of the most rapid change to human behavior that many of us will ever see. What you knew about your customers back in January just doesn’t apply now — and if you’ve got existing journey maps, they are officially out of date. Prior to the pandemic, my general advice for when organizations needed to update their journey maps went something like this: Think about this activity like you think about servicing your car. Maintenance Mode.
Kerry Bodine
APRIL 25, 2019
I’m thrilled to announce the addition of Jade to the Bodine & Co. As our project manager, she’s working both with clients and behind the scenes to streamline our processes and communications — and, of course, create effective, easy, and enjoyable client experiences across all of our speaking and consulting engagements. Previously, Jade spent seven years at Cydcor, a global leader in outsourced sales and marketing, as a business process analyst and IT project manager.
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Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 29, 2019
The emerging role of the journey manager represents one of the most important developments since the creation of the Chief Customer Officer, yet many in the customer experience field have yet to encounter a journey manager within their organizations—or to develop a working knowledge of their typical job responsibilities and challenges. That’s not surprising: Compared to the 1.6 million product managers that you’ll find today on LinkedIn, journey managers number fewer than 2,000.
Kerry Bodine
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s the first day of spring, and we’re looking forward to enjoying a few days in our favorite Chicago season when we travel there for our Journey Mapping and Facilitation bootcamp on May 8 and 9. Day 1 mirrors that of our signature journey mapping bootcamp to help you build a strong foundation in the concepts and methods of journey mapping.
Kerry Bodine
APRIL 23, 2020
A couple of years ago, I read a book that changed the way I thought about my business — and my life: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. My main takeaway was Gay’s framework for describing four “zones” that we all function within: The Zone of Incompetence: When you’re in this zone, you’re doing things you’re not good at — and that others are. Gay suggests we all avoid doing these tasks by delegating them to someone else or finding another workaround.
Kerry Bodine
APRIL 19, 2020
We’re in the midst of the most momentous and rapid change to human behavior that many of us will ever see. Even as countries around the world look to ease restrictions on citizens’ movement, this transformation will have a lasting impact on both our personal and professional lives for months and years to come. That means the need to understand your customers’ behaviors, needs, and expectations is greater than ever.
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Kerry Bodine
MARCH 29, 2020
Note #1 — I’m posting this now because: It’s timely to the launch of Amazon’s new show Making the Cut , which premiered on March 27, 2020. It will be, I hope, a helpful reference for people designing integrated TV + shopping experiences in the future. It gave my brain something to focus on other than the coronavirus — and maybe you’re looking for such a distraction, too.
Kerry Bodine
OCTOBER 20, 2016
This journey map for the Exploratorium , a science museum in San Francisco, is one of my favorites. That’s because the folks at the former design agency Adaptive Path (which was acquired by Capital One back in 2014) did a great job of highlighting two key things: 1) The entirety of the customer experience.
Kerry Bodine
OCTOBER 14, 2016
Of the four types of customer journey maps , the current-state map is the most ubiquitous. That’s not surprising, given how many organizations are trying to understand their customers’ current pain points and improve the customer experience. Wondering how you can get started mapping your own organization’s current-state journey map? Follow these 10 steps: 1. Identify an important problem area through existing (mostly quantitative) data.
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 11, 2019
It’s the beginning of a new year, which is always the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past and make grand plans for the future. And just in case you’re wondering, that’s exactly what we’re doing here at Kerry Bodine & Co.) As part of that effort, I recently took a look back at our most popular posts of 2018 — and I wanted to share them with you here. I hope they inspire your work for 2019 and beyond! So without further ado, let’s begin the countdown….
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Kerry Bodine
JUNE 14, 2018
Imagine you’re in the midst of a journey mapping workshop and your customers are bombarding you—in a good way—with insights about their needs and expectations. Somewhere along the way, a participant recounts a particularly bad experience, and you feel compelled to explain the behind-the-scenes factors that derailed her experience. Well, that’s because of a regulation we don’t have control over,” you begin to say.
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