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COVID-19 Makes Journey Mapping More Important Than Ever. Here’s How to Build One.

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

If you have a journey map, I hope you are using it. COVID-19 and the ongoing fallout from it — remote teams, changing budgets, new family dynamics — are competing for your attention, but don’t let your journey map collect dust right now. Why Journey Maps Matter Now More Than Ever.

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Epic Fail of Customer Journey Mapping — Part 2

CloudCherry

In our last post, we discussed three common pitfalls companies encounter in their customer journey marketing (CJM) initiatives: little support from the C-suite, a short-sided view of the end goal, and limited customer perspective. As Gartner notes , those successful CJM programs create usable journey maps.

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Feeling Overwhelmed By Journey Mapping? You’re Not Alone

Kerry Bodine

Whenever we conduct one of our open enrollment journey mapping workshops , we start by asking attendees to list three words that describe their current feelings toward journey mapping. Committing to paper your hypotheses and assumptions about your customers’ experiences can, in fact, be dangerous.

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My Rock, My Story: Building a Customer Journey Map from Scratch at the Smithsonian

Customer Bliss

In this “My Rock, My Story,” Samir Bitar , Director of the Office of Visitor Services at the Smithsonian Institution , shares how he and his team built the organization’s first customer journey map in order to create a unified understanding of the visitor experience across its many museums and affiliates around the world.

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Journey Mapping Q&A: Customer Journey Mapping Workshops

Kerry Bodine

Back in May, I presented a webinar called “ 10 Ways To Use Customer Journey Maps ” as a part of Qualtrics ’ CX Week. Part 1 of this series focused on common journey map components and how to use maps to prioritize customer experience initiatives. What is the process for creating journey maps?

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Why Journey Map? 3 Problems They Can Solve

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Why Create Customer Journey Maps? Journey maps can be extraordinarily impactful upon how an organization approaches their products, services, and interactions. Stop for a moment and imagine a customer journey map in your mind. Customer journey maps are tools to solve your business challenges.

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Unlocking the Practical CX Power of Design Thinking for B2B Companies: A Step-by-Step Guide

eglobalis

Techniques like shadowing clients or performing customer journey observations are particularly effective in B2B contexts. Tools : Empathy maps and journey mapping to visualize customer experiences and uncover pain points in their processes.

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