Customer Experience Management
Implement your Signature Customer Experience
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The 6-steps to creating & implementing the :
Customer Experience Management Strategy







Our Philosophy
Customers believe in companies not because of what they say, but because of what they make them experience. Acumen believes that if customers are not provided with a consistent experience at each touch point, your brand image and hence your sales takes a beating
Ensuring Customer Experience Success

This is an organization-wide initiative

The Brand promise workshop is attended by all the top-management team members

The customer experience and signature sales experience workshops are conduct for all customer facing people.
Duration: 6 – 9 Months
Benefits
For the participant




For the organization




Our Approach
Gauge
Though the fundamentals always remain the same, each company has its own unique way of doing things. This step helps our team of sales analysts gauge your current style of functioning and understand your philosophy and business priorities. It throws light on customer management and sales management and also one important element, which is the team’s conviction on the brand and the product. This becomes our foundation for realizing the forthcoming steps.
Mechanism
- Discussions with Sales Head
- Regional Sales Managers
- Sales visits
- Sales data analysis
- Mock calls, if possible
Outcome
Analysis
- Sales Experience Scorecard
- Strengths of the team (positive deviants and positive practices being practiced by different team members)
- Process gaps, if any
Understanding
- Customer psyche
- Current conviction on brand proposition
- Current process
Experience Design
In today’s competitive market, it is difficult to differentiate a product from it’s competition. While everyone is fighting with each other on cost, quality and delivery, the differentiator of the future is going to be ‘customer experience’. In this step a session of straight and difficult questions are put in front of the management team towards unearthing brand uniqueness and creating a convincing brand promise. Apart from the unique brand promise, the differentiator in giving a unique and lasting sales experience also gets defined.
Mechanism
- Discussion with sales and product heads on :
- Customer need prioritization
- Strength v/s uniqueness
- Defining clear and convincing brand uniqueness
Reverse brainstorming with the management team
- Defining the sales experience
Outcome
- Value proposition
- The sales pitch
- The sales experience for the customer
- The accountabilities for the sales experience
Symphony
The alignment of the HODs on the brand promise is of utmost importance to ensure that the promise gets delivered. More than awareness, they also need to know their role in ensuring that the defined promise gets delivered and that they become the biggest brand ambassadors of the brand promise. The alignment of the HOD happens during a session where their buy-in is taken through an interactive approach.
Mechanism
Session with HODs
- Value proposition
- The sales pitch
- The sales experience for the customer
- Their respective accountabilities for the sales experience
- Action plan to roll out the sales experience
Outcome
- Alignment of all HODs
- HOD ownership on the sales experience
- Plan of action
Roll Out
The biggest stakeholder in the experience is the sales team. A powerful training workshop is designed to ensure they get coached on different elements gauged during the first step and the elements of sales experience. While the basic training programs focus is only on product or solution selling, this training takes them a step ahead in creating their differentiator. The training questions the fundamentals of the team on their attitude and approach to customers & coaches them on skills to ensure a great experience for the customer.
Mechanism
Designing
- The Training Outline and Action Assignments
- The Training Collaterals
Training
- 3 training days per batch (not more than 20 participants)
Outcome
- Sales team awareness about the expected customer experience to be delivered
- Skill enhancement to bridge the gap
Sustanance
Knowledge without action is futile.
Hence the learning’s from the workshop get translated into assignments for the sales team to roll out each element piece by piece and to get a better understanding of it by experiencing it.
Mechanism
Action assignment roll out
- 6 weekly assignments per batch
- Assignments sent through mails
- Weekly reports sent by participants
Outcome
- New approach being practiced on field
- Understanding of implementation challenges faced
Certify
The roll out phase showcases a lot of learning’s about the team’s approach, the challenge areas and also the customer reaction on the new approach. This analysis helps in tightening and bettering the experience and also in planning a mechanism to help the team in their challenge areas. Finally all great work needs to be rewarded. The performers get distinguished from the non-performers and felicitated through Certification Grades.
Mechanism
Discussion with management team
- Grading of performance of team on assignments
- Action points for Heads – handholding for weaker areas of team
- Modifications in the sales experience design, if required
Session with sales team
- Recap of learning’s
- Certification
Outcome
- Sales team’s performance on the assignments
- Analysis of areas where sales team is facing challenges
- Redefined sales experience, if required
- Learning’s refreshed through sessions
- Challenge areas addressed through sessions
- Certification
Our Team of Expert Facilitators

Jayesh Talpade

Tanveer Shaikh

Sameer Pimpale

Snehal Kole
Why Acumen?
- Experience of companies ranging from Real Estate and Manufacturing to Service Sectors
- Currently 22 consultants on rolls and an external Talent Pool of 20 subject matter experts
- Clientele across India as well as overseas
- In-depth understanding of Business that makes Acumen the preferred partner of both conglomerates as well as small & medium enterprises
- Business model of providing customized solutions to meet customer’s current and future needs
- Ability to deliver interventions based on values and ideologies
- Being Instrumental in creating transformation in various organizations
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