Friday, March 8, 2013

Embedded Customer

The phrase “customer experience” is used often when describing customer’s feedback. Studies show us that creating “wow” experiences and “please” customers doesn’t often improve the experience, especially if the was one time interaction. It didn’t increased customer loyalty once thought. Moreover, customer becomes more and more powerful.

Company’s focus (not just the support organization) started changing from a complete organizational view to a customer-centric view. An organization that foresees the future are in a process to be fully connected to "embedded" customer.

The "embedded customer" main principle is to to engage the customers in decisions taken by the company. One can see it as a seat in an advisory board of the company. However, companies must keep their balance as they face the challenge not to become too friendly with the “advising” customer. It should only be involved customers who have a genuine interest in the development of the company.

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