Designing Operations Around the Customer Experience
Customers experience the handoffs between departments — a structural reality most operating models are not engineered around.
Misdiagnosing the Friction
When customers receive inconsistent information from different departments regarding the same order, the instinct is often to retrain staff or introduce a coordination role. Neither addresses the underlying condition: sales and delivery frequently optimize against different, unaligned objectives.
“Sales and delivery frequently optimize against different, unaligned objectives.”
Mapping the Actual Journey
Mapping the customer journey end to end tends to reveal a small number of specific friction points. Order confirmation, change requests, and delivery scheduling are common sources.
A Targeted Redesign
A targeted redesign of those specific processes, extending downstream teams direct visibility into upstream commitments, is frequently sufficient — addressing the operational root cause directly, without the cost of a full reorganization.
- Map the customer journey across departments as a single continuous process
- Target the specific handoff points generating customer friction for redesign
- Extend downstream teams direct visibility into upstream commitments at the point they are made
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