Customer Excellence will bring new technologies, new
challenges and new opportunities, so organizations will have to get ahead of
this trend. To this end I am happy to announce a new customer excellence
collaboration with Gero Decker and Mark McGregor which will lead to a new body
of work that brings together a new Customer Excellence program, a new framework
for change, new customer excellence journeys, new methods, and new combinations
for technologies under new ownership approaches. The result is different
thinking when it comes to technology and projects. If you want to register to one of the free copies, click here
Technology is no longer just the domain of special teams or
something hiding in the basement. The technology lines have blurred, so much so
that in many cases technology and product are now the same things. Cars that
diagnose themselves and schedule dealer visits, or the banking that you expect
to do via your smartphone, lights that know when to turn themselves on and off.
These are not just exciting fun technologies. These are technologies that are
completely changing our organizations and the relationships with the people and
processes inside them. Twenty years ago, when BPM came along, it was still seen
as a means to automate processes in the back-office, gradually moving more into
the front-office, now it potentially has to branch out to survive. For today,
the processes that historically BPM, Workflow or even ERP automated, are more
fragmented, more embedded and even less visible than before.
Don't be surprised to see orchestration used even more
widely. The process will become the only way to serve the customer in a
flexible manner at the scale you need. But, process, in order to act as the
orchestrator or conductor, needs to live outside the technologies it is working
with. The speed of technological change means that the underlying technologies
might be replaced every two years. Think RPA and robots, it is highly unlikely
that the robots you use tomorrow will be the ones you bought already. However,
the processes they support may still be the same.
There will be new business approaches and new journeys to
bust silos while taking an outside-in approach to orchestrating the jungle of
automation organizations currently have to manage localized excellence.
Organizations will be charged with removing friction from customers and laying
it on technology combinations that deliver customer outcomes while delivering
automation savings for the bottom line. These changes will be disruptive but
absolutely necessary to thrive in the future.
Net; Net
Organizations need to get ahead of and ride the Customer Excellence
wave or be struggling to stay afloat. As we look at the market today, no vendor
has a complete offering to address the full requirements of Customer
Excellence. In future blogs we will look at which pieces different vendors
address and discuss where we think the complete Customer Excellence come from,
vendors building out from their base or creating best of breed platforms.
It seems that the voice of the customer - which needs to be constantly and carefully listened to - and the performance indicators thereof, need to be directly linked, somehow, to those organization organs that can affect it, be they people, bots, processes, events, IT assets, data, reports, etc.
ReplyDeleteTherefore the current vendor landscape "behind" customer excellence, which is very diverse for now, is likely to eventually undergo some kind of consolidation, if at all customer excellence becomes the focal point for organizations willing to build products and services that have effective value.
Also, a lot can be expected from new entrants in a disruptive change period. What do you think?
I do believe there will be a convergence of methods, techniques and technologies to support customer excellence. It will be fun to watch, advise and participate in the near future.
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