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3 Traps on the Way to Becoming a Customer-Centric Company

Researchers analyzed data from more than 1,000 customer-centricity transformation projects over the past 25 years. They found that only 15% of CEOs and sales teams have a customer-centric strategy. Most run their company or customer relationships based on a product-focused mindset, which puts the onus on finding a market to sell one’s products to, rather than orchestrating growth together with customers. Instead, firms should ask three key questions to ensure customer centricity: Are our strategic objectives and transformation efforts aligned with our customers’ priorities? Are our solutions-design and deployment efforts configured based on customer-validated input? And, are our organizational setup and investments allocated to customer commitments for mutual success?



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