Customer strategy & disruption

Customer strategy & disruption

Your truly disruptive power lies in meticulously tuning in on the 'jobs to be done'

Customer strategy is the process of increasing revenue by understanding, anticipating and responding to customers’ changing needs better. Implementing customer strategy almost always has a disruptive effect on the business, and – when successful – on entire markets.

A lot of companies want to be like Airbnb: a disruptive force born from a deceptively simple idea that upends the market and lays waste to competition. However, despite rising innovation spending, only a handful ever reach that status. The reason? Their (lack of) customer strategy.

Too often, companies are completely preoccupied with either their products or their internal processes. Instead, they should focus on what Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen calls ‘the job to be done’. What are your customers hoping to accomplish when they engage your services or products?

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Apple isn’t really in the business of selling laptops or smartphones, but of making connections, sharing content or apps and unlocking your creative or professional potential. 

The most successful breweries aren’t just selling drinks either: they’re selling great experiences. The drinks just function as a catalyst for social experiences in which people come together in connect. In this way, the ‘jobs to be done’ theory provides a powerful tool that companies can use to stave off competition. Identifying this ‘job to be done’ is no easy feat.

In the age of big data, many marketers and product developers tend to focus only on customer profiles and correlations, and not enough on what customers are trying to achieve in a specific circumstance.

The problem is not that there isn’t enough data – far from it – but that it doesn’t have the required quality level. This means companies need to talk to customers and non-customers alike to identify specific needs in their markets that have not been met to this day.

your product or service isn’t necessarily what your customers need right now

What delaware can do for you

With over 15 years of experience in business, marketing, and technologies, delaware is uniquely positioned to help you develop and set up a customer strategy that really connects with your customer. We help you define a disruptive vision that transcends your daily business, and offer proven analytical methods to test it.

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How we can help you?

  • Create awareness through workshops, business games and quick scans
  • Define improvement programs and offer vision, strategy and roadmaps
  • Support deep learning and advanced customer analytics
  • Execute transformation at your company
  • Build your business process architecture, monitor it, and train your people

Why choose delaware?

  • We offer a structured approach
  • We offer end-to-end solutions
  • We collaborate closely with your team
  • We have 15 years of experience in business transformation in numerous industries

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