Design Thinking : Customer Journey Mapping

About this course

Design Thinking is an alternate approach to strategic problem solving so that you can create experiences users love.  It aims to gain deep insights about customer's, their preferences and perspective about how they go about in their lives and in doing so, avail value from your products and services. So, as a product or service provider, seeing it through their customer's lens can provide immense value in improving customer experience and loyalty. It can guide teams to effectively brainstorm innovative ideas (more importantly on the right problems) and test those new ideas, refine them and before taking business decisions such as investments or strategic direction.Customer Journey Mapping is an important tool of Design thinking which can create immense value, excel in CX delivery that entrepreneurs, product managers, business leaders, can use to unlock value and map customers' unarticulated needs and expectations along their buying and servicing lifecycle (Customer Lifetime)  The purpose of the customer journey map is to identify the touch points of engagement with customers. The interaction at the touchpoints can help you to identify customer needs and expectations that are not visible to you as a product manager. An important element of customer journey map is that it is not a mere point in time analysis of customer needs at one single step at a time, but a coherent study of customer's journey across their life cycle of the product or service, as the customer uses it.Through a Case Study, this course will teach you to create Customer Journey Map of your own organization. Journey Mapping is a design thinking tool and is widely used to understand and empathize with the customers. Using the Customer Journey Mapping, barriers and levers in the customer's end to end journey can be identified and they can be used to re-design or re-think the entire customer experience

Course objectives

• help teams brainstorm innovative ideas
• improve customer experience and loyalty
• facilitate strategic decision-making based on customer insights