B2B Customer Strategy
For businesses that need to refresh their marketing activities, their sales effectiveness or their Customer Service capabilities, reworking your B2B Customer Strategy is a great place to start.
Following hundreds of client engagements focused on Customer Experience (CX) and transforming Customer Strategies, Customer Attuned has honed its approach to developing and implementing effective B2B Customer Strategies. As with all our work, we look to build cultures of customer centricity based on trust that deliver mutual value.
What is a B2B Customer Strategy?
A good Customer Strategy defines an organisation’s view of their customer and maps this against their products and services, and illustrates how the business best serves the customer to deliver, typically, organisational growth through achieving customer satisfaction. From the strategy departmental plans are drawn that come together to achieve targets.
In our experience, the best B2B customer strategies genuinely join up people, processes, insight and systems around a customer centric purpose and a systemic approach to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes.
In order to achieve these aims, Customer Attuned has created a tried and tested approach to customer strategy development based upon 12 “building blocks”. These blocks respond to the question “what are we doing, who are we engaging with and how are we doing it?”.
What makes a good Customer Strategy?
The following 12 elements are, we believe, essential components that when applied well build an effective b2b customer strategy.
Purpose: What are we trying to achieve?
1. Vision & Rules of Engagement
2. Customer Culture
3. Customer Value Objectives
4. Business Case and KPIs
Insight: Who are we engaging with and when?
5. Analytics & Segmentation
6. Lifecycle & Life Stage
7. Experience & Journey Design
8. Omni-channel Engagement
Action: How are we going to do it?
9. Propositions & Contact Plans
10. Capability Enhancement
11. Data & Technology
12. Voice of the Customer
Read a full explanation of the 12 core building blocks of an effective b2b customer strategy.
We build a B2B Customer Strategy from where you are at
The proven Customer Attuned methodology investigates the “As Is” based upon the ‘Intention’, ‘Reality’ and ‘Impact’ of related Best Practices, from the perspective of those involved within the business. This results in identification and prioritisation of the gaps, and from where we co-create the the “To Be” customer strategy. Working closely with internal teams throughout, this strategy is then carefully implemented.
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