There are many customer experience journey maps in the world – beautiful ones, ugly ones, complicated ones, intriguing ones, short ones, long ones and some more impressive ones than others. What does amaze me though is how much focus there still is on processes and procedures and how little focus on emotions, feelings and values (for both internal and external customers). True, if the basics of procedures and processes are in place there might be less frustration for customers, but if this is the only consideration and looked at in isolation, I have a problem with it. Humans are more complex than this – systems are static and can usually be fixed, but add humans into the mix and things gets complicated. Its messy and un-predictive, but herein lies the secret…
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