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How Customer Focussed
Are You Really?
How to implement customer obsession
in your optimization process.
Tim Herbig
@herbigt
Key Takeaways
Bonus:
No Animations
“I already know what
customers need.
I am one myself!”
Everybody is dying...
1955 2015
+ Countless Startups
every day
Customer Centricity
Caring about your users
because you have to.
Customer Obsession
Caring about your users
because you want to.
Transformation through
Customer Obsession
Focus on Method-Problem Fit
ProblemConsProsMethod
Quick-Start for
new hypotheses
Can lead to over-
optimization
Measure behavior
change
Requires scale
Untestable projects
Customer has
"seat at table."
Customers “lie”
@herbigt
Pillars of Customer
Obsession
PROCESSSTRUCTURE ATTITUDE
STRUCTURE
Democratize Access
to User Feedback
User
Research
Product
Marketing
Design
Analytics
Engineering
Sales
PROCESS
Embrace Uncertainty
while Planning
NOW NEXT LATER
Theme 1
Theme 4
Theme 3
Theme 5
Theme 6
Theme 7
ATTITUDE
Unlearn Successes
from the Past
@herbigt
3 Things to
do on Monday.
Start to Monitor
Customer Access Metrics
1
TrendPrev. MonthThis Month
Share of employees
which have direct
access to customers
x% x%
No. of steps it takes
to talk directly to a
customer for any
employee
x x
Share of employees
who responded to
customer support
tickets themselves
within the last month
x% x%
Switch Incentives to
Customer Metrics
2
Customer MetricsBusiness Metrics
Release Dates
No. of Features
Shipped
Sprint Velocity
Generated Revenue
for Customer
No. of Support
Requests for Features
Cross- or Upsell
within Product
Establish Direct Access
Channels for Employees
3
Shared
Feedback Source
User
Feedback Coffee
Teams
own Support
Where’s the Proof?
Source: konversionskraft.de/e-commerce-conversion-benchmark-report-preview
Where’s the Proof?
Source: konversionskraft.de/e-commerce-conversion-benchmark-report-preview
Keep in mind
Thanks!
@herbigt
herbig.blog/gms-slides
iridion.com/gms18
tim.herbig@iridion.com
bit.ly/DigitalGrowth2018

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How Customer Focussed Are You Really? - How to implement customer obsession in your optimization process. at growth marketing SUMMIT 2018

Editor's Notes

  1. I’m here to challenge your perspective on Customer Centricity and I already apologize for being ‘the one’ between you and the lunch break Quick show of hands: Who in this room would describe themselves as “customer focussed”? Ok, now keep your hands up if you would describe your company/company you work for as customer centric? See that? That’s part of the problem, but we’ll get to that.
  2. How will I do that? Key takeaways Relevance of Customer Obsession Which players have mastered it and how What you can take with you for when you return to work on Monday
  3. And, as a special contribution to our host Andre: No animations
  4. Let me tell you a story about the absolute lack of customer focus
  5. Potential result of lacking customer focus Not going to bore you with this one
  6. Instead, let’s talk about what can prevent you from dying
  7. Instead, let’s talk about what can prevent you from dying
  8. Netflix mastered challenge of transforming their entire business through customer obsession
  9. Mastered it because they didn’t randomly throw methods around, but became aware of which problem
  10. Experiment of combining A/B Testing and Qualitative/long term brand factors for decision Short-term revenue drop vs. long-term brand building Source: https://www.slideshare.net/RebeccaMosner/netflix-from-product-strategy-to-execution?from_action=save Result • • • • • Launch, or not? Launched to all Positive WOM and brand effect Customer more likely to restart Revenue shift not loss? Possible long-term gain?
  11. Customer Obsession requires a changed approach to three core parts of your business
  12. Static Silo and single responsibility Shift to shared responsibility and democratized access
  13. Time based roadmaps may give you perceived security, but actually let leave you in the dark
  14. Environmental factors change rapidly and so does the impact of the same experiment over time
  15. Tim, that all sounds great in theory, but how on earth should I make this work in my company Fear no more, here’s exactly what to do on Monday!
  16. We made the shit on the left side up to keep us busy all day But the ones on the right can at least serve as a proxy for how much we have been able to help our customers to succeed By incentivizing teams for metrics on the left, you support the wrong behavior and risk features being developed aside from customer needs
  17. Slack channel where all customer feedback lands with mandatory joining of teams Schedule weekly customer interviews in advance → Rotating interviewers Let (product) teams rotate through answering customer support for their features
  18. n=242 asked companies
  19. n=242 asked companies
  20. Method-Problem Fit Check attitude, process and structure You can improve things immediately
  21. Not control instance for employees → Reminder for Management in terms of enablement
  22. Instead, let’s talk about what can prevent you from dying
  23. So, what’s happening here? Everything around us is changing at a freaking pace Companies are build upon 3 pillars: People, Product and Process And every single one of these is going through incredibly radical change: People → employee turnover has drastically reduced. Coming from dying within a company to considering 2 years a max. Product → emerging platforms & business models. The reduced friction to start new businesses makes is impossible to defend yourself against new incumbents Process → ways of working (e.g. agile & remote). New products, and a changed employee mindset ask for new ways to organize companies and the entire concept of working principles like agile or remote is based on changing rapidly
  24. We love to pride ourselves of being customer centric But in order to survive, you need to become customer obsessed
  25. Netflix didn’t just throw every method against the wall Recognized downside of every method to determine right moment to use them Story about informed decision regarding roll-out of subscription renewal confirmation, not only listen to one method → think of long-term
  26. So, what’s happening here? Everything around us is changing at a freaking pace Companies are build upon 3 pillars: People, Product and Process And every single one of these is going through incredibly radical change: People → employee turnover Product → emerging platforms & business models Process → ways of working (e.g. agile & remote)
  27. So, what’s happening here? Everything around us is changing at a freaking pace Companies are build upon 3 pillars: People, Product and Process And every single one of these is going through incredibly radical change: People → employee turnover Product → emerging platforms & business models Process → ways of working (e.g. agile & remote)
  28. Netflix didn’t just throw every method against the wall Recognized downside of every method to determine right moment to use them In general: Qualitative: What people day Quantitative: What people do Story about informed decision regarding roll-out of subscription renewal confirmation, not only listen to one method → think of long-term
  29. So, what’s happening here? Everything around us is changing at a freaking pace Companies are build upon 3 pillars: People, Product and Process And every single one of these is going through incredibly radical change: People → employee turnover Product → emerging platforms & business models Process → ways of working (e.g. agile & remote)
  30. So, what’s happening here? Everything around us is changing at a freaking pace Companies are build upon 3 pillars: People, Product and Process And every single one of these is going through incredibly radical change: People → employee turnover Product → emerging platforms & business models Process → ways of working (e.g. agile & remote)
  31. Let’s set things straight in terms of the terminology here first So, why should you actually rather want to center your work around customers instead of having to do it → let me show you
  32. Feedback river Change your thinking from seeing customer feedback as a silo task/knowledge, to a river of wisdom running through your company And just like it is in the real world, an environment can only thrive if everybody has access to a river You need to democratize access to customer feedback!
  33. So, I promised