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Customer journey analysis and optimization is among the top investment priorities for customer experience practitioners, according to the CMSWire State of Digital Customer Experience 2021 report. It trailed the top area: analytics, insights and dashboarding.
Customer journey mapping combines a lot of those two investment areas. It is a discipline that involves interdepartmental collaboration, research, technology and customer data management. The goal? Determine how customers interact with brands from marketing to acquisition to onboarding to loyalty programs and lifetime customer value efforts and improve customer experience along those journeys. Ultimately, create the ideal customer journey map.
Organizations approach customer journey mapping in many ways. Here, weâll explore some of the foundational elements, the initial steps in crafting a customer journey mapping program.