Customer Focus Audit + Ideas

What should we Focus on?

What should I examine from the Customers’ Perspective? Business Research

Check out every part of your business

Your entire business should be focused on anticipating, identifying, developing, and satisfying customers’ needs and wants – profitably. This is the basic definition of Marketing. 

But, in reality, organisations have a natural tendency to be
inward-looking. This provides customer-intelligent organisations with an excellent opportunity to gain, and maintain, a profitable competitive lead.

What specifically?

Study every aspect of your business that impacts on sales, costs, profits, and customer stimulation and satisfaction:

your strategy – plans – projects – structure – business processes – products – services – premises – R & D – manufacturing – supply – distribution – marketing – selling – feedback systems – your Leadership, teams, people, performance management system – corporate culture – training & development - your communications (internal and external) ...

How can I do it?

How can I get this INSIGHT into what customers really want

and how they see our products, plans, people, communications, our entire organisation?

By learning how to SEE from the Customers' Viewpoint, and applying our unique:

♦ 4-stage Customer-Focusing Process

♦ Customer Focus Questions, Tests, and Prompts

♦ Business----Customer Thinking Styles
   ... polar opposite ways of thinking, both crucial to performance

♦ Many other Thinking Styles that your Teams should engage
   when planning any initiative … see Clear Thinking

♦ Buying and Marketing/Selling experience
   ... invaluable knowledge of these two ‘opposite’ experiences

in Team/group Workshops, interviews with staff, research surveys, customer role-plays, and analysis of business processes, selling, and communications.
  4-stage Customer-Focusing Process
How you can use our 4-stage Customer-Focusing Process
What are the Customer Focus Questions, Tests, and Prompts?  
Classic Cases in costly Customer Focus mistakes
Have a Demo Email us for an introductory discussion and demonstration of our Customer-Focusing Process applied to any aspect of your business.