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How an organisation acts to reflect a culture aligned to the customer How an organisation generates, distributes and acts upon learning about customers and their needs How the organisation is structured, configured and aligned to continually adapt and develop its value proposition How the organisation interacts and relates with its customers to deliver superior experiences and if appropriate, build relationships

When building customer focus, it is necessary to develop strategies and identify improvement opportunities in several areas. The OMC Group’s Customer Focus Assessment and Development Framework is used to identify and measure an organisation’s current situation and potential for customer focused innovation and change. It does this by organising the most important dimensions of successful customer-focused organisations into four Opportunity Zones. Each denotes a particular emphasis and related set of capabilities for creating customer value and generating organisational benefit by moving an organisation closer to its customers.

Based on extensive research into successful customer-focused organisations, each Opportunity Zone contains a series of factors and criteria to allow managers to assess their own organisation’s current situation and performance against known best practice. Example assessment factors in each Opportunity Zone are as follows:

How an organisation acts to reflect a culture aligned to the customer

Senior management priorities and interests
Shared beliefs and purpose about customer focus
Understanding of customer value drivers
Empowerment and risk-taking attitude

Cultivation of entrepreneurial mindset

Cost / Investment attitudes towards customer interactions

 

 

 

How an organisation generates, distributes and acts upon learning about and from customers

Types of customer learning

Feedback from frontline employees

Learning from active listening to customers by management

Understanding of the customer journey

Mix of learning methodologies
Ability to sense latent needs on an ongoing basis

Styles and impact of customer probe and learn

Openness to learn from customers (permeability)
Knowledge and use of customer and market segments

Internal sharing and interpretation of customer knowledge
Use of customer complaints to fix root-causes
Adequacy of customer-information systems

Involvement of partners in knowledge-creation

How the organisation interacts and relates with its customers to deliver superior experiences and if appropriate, build relationships

Use of planned customer experience elements

Openness of marketing and communications

Level of customer collaboration and partnering
Inbound channel adaptability

Knowledge and skills of frontline employees
Pace of innovation and change in the customer interface

 

 

How the organisation is structured, configured and aligned to continually adapt and develop its customer focus

Types of strategic business planning 

Links with strategy-making and investment planning

Relations between functions
Ability of information systems to support inter-functional coordination
Basis of employee rewards and incentives

Alignment of standards, measures and targets

Ability of management to react to developments and new opportunities

Inter-business unit coherence

Brand portfolio alignment
 

The tool assesses current activity and performance based on the specific scope, context and objectives of each client engagement. As well as capabilities, we also examine important organisational factors (resources, culture, behaviour, alignment, structure) that act as enablers or barriers to change. Importantly, we do not rely solely on our own assessment tools. We  review current rules and policies and assess any behaviours, targets and measures as well as internal threats that may hinder the development of dynamic capabilities and objectives. We also inform our findings with existing research and reports, for example using customer complaints, MIS and other performance measures, external reports, employee and customer feedback.

Contact us for further information about the Four Zone Customer Focus Assessment and Development Framework and how it works.


 

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