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CX Strategy
A documented plan defining the target customer experience, priority segments, value proposition, capabilities, and governance, aligned with business strategy and measurable outcomes.
Experience Principle
A durable rule that guides design decisions and employee behavior across touchpoints, expressing how the organization intends customers to feel and be treated.
Moment That Matters
A touchpoint with high emotional intensity, high perceived risk, or high influence on overall perception, making it disproportionately important to experience outcomes.
CX Governance Council
A cross-functional body with decision rights for CX prioritization, funding, standards, and issue resolution, connecting strategy to execution across business units.
Outside-In Perspective
An approach that starts with customer needs, desired outcomes, and journey context, then works back to processes, technology, and organizational design.
Customer Segmentation
Grouping customers by shared needs, behaviors, value, or attitudes to tailor experience strategy; demographics alone usually do not explain experience preferences.
Journey Map
A visual model of a customer's actions, thoughts, emotions, channels, and pain points over time for a defined scenario and segment.
Persona
A research-based archetype representing a customer segment's goals, behaviors, needs, and pain points, used to focus design and decision-making.
Empathy Map
A structured tool that captures what a customer says, thinks, does, and feels, helping teams surface unstated needs and emotional drivers.
Kano Model
A framework classifying features as must-be, performance, attractive, indifferent, or reverse based on how their presence affects customer satisfaction.
Jobs to Be Done
A needs framework describing the functional, emotional, and social progress a customer seeks in a specific situation, independent of a product.
Triangulation
Combining multiple research methods, data sources, or analysts to test findings and increase confidence in customer insights.
Design Thinking
An iterative human-centered process of empathizing, defining the problem, ideating, prototyping, and testing solutions with users.
Service Blueprint
A map that extends the customer journey with frontstage actions, backstage processes, support systems, evidence, and fail points.
Prototype Fidelity
The degree of realism in a prototype, from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity functional models; lower fidelity tests concepts faster and cheaper.
Co-Creation
A collaborative process in which customers and stakeholders actively generate, evaluate, and refine solutions with the design team.
Journey Orchestration
Coordinating timing, channel, content, and data across touchpoints so customers receive a coherent experience throughout the journey.
Net Promoter Score
A relationship metric calculated as the percentage of promoters (9-10) minus the percentage of detractors (0-6) on a 0-10 likelihood-to-recommend question.
Customer Satisfaction Score
A metric measuring satisfaction with a specific interaction or overall relationship, typically collected on a defined rating scale and reported as a percentage or average.
Customer Effort Score
A metric measuring the perceived effort a customer expends to resolve a need, often used to identify friction in service interactions.
Customer Lifetime Value
The expected net value a customer generates over the relationship; a simple form is average purchase value times purchase frequency times lifespan.
ROI Formula
Return on investment equals net benefit divided by cost, multiplied by 100; net benefit is total benefit minus total cost.
Leading and Lagging Metrics
Leading indicators predict future outcomes, such as effort or sentiment; lagging indicators confirm results, such as churn, retention, or revenue.
RACI Matrix
A responsibility chart assigning who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed for each activity or decision in an initiative.
ADKAR Model
An individual change model with five outcomes: awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and reinforcement, used to diagnose adoption barriers.
Journey Owner
An accountable role responsible for end-to-end experience outcomes across functions and touchpoints, with authority to prioritize improvements.
CX Steering Committee
A cross-functional leadership group that sponsors CX work, sets priorities, allocates resources, and resolves escalated experience issues.
CX Operating Model
The arrangement of CX roles, decision rights, and capabilities across centralized, federated, or hybrid structures to deliver experience outcomes.
Voice of Customer Program
A systematic process to collect, analyze, act on, and close the loop on customer feedback across listening posts and journeys.
Closed-Loop Feedback
A process that follows up with the customer who gave feedback and triggers internal action on the root cause, then tracks completion.
Listening Posts
Sources of customer feedback such as surveys, interviews, social media, reviews, call transcripts, and complaint data used to understand experience.
Service-Profit Chain
A model linking employee satisfaction and engagement to service quality, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and ultimately business performance.
Customer-Centric Culture
Shared values and behaviors that prioritize customer outcomes, evidenced by leadership modeling, employee empowerment, and recognition of customer-focused actions.