380: Journey Mapping Masterclass 2: Workshop Your Journey
Nov 12, 2024
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Joana de Quintanilha, a journey mapping expert at Forrester, shares her insights into the creation of journey maps and the planning of effective workshops. She emphasizes the importance of using digital tools like Mural and Miro for hybrid settings. Key discussions include mastering customer experience storytelling, maintaining workshop momentum, and fostering engaging ideation sessions. Joana also unveils techniques for prioritizing customer experience improvements and bridging gaps between customer pain points and organizational perceptions.
Selecting the right format for journey mapping workshops, especially virtual tools like Mural and Miro, enhances collaboration and engagement.
Incorporating essential elements like emotion curves and key metrics in journey maps tailors insights to different audiences and clarifies customer experiences.
Deep dives
Effective Journey Mapping Strategies
When creating journey maps, selecting the right format is crucial, especially in light of the recent shift towards remote and hybrid work environments. Virtual journey mapping workshops have gained popularity, utilizing digital tools such as Mural and Miro to facilitate collaboration among geographically dispersed participants. These virtual setups can enable a more condensed and flexible schedule, allowing facilitators to break the workshop into manageable and engaging segments, ensuring participants remain focused without enduring long hours on video calls. Prioritizing interactive exercises during real-time sessions also enhances the quality of discussion, allowing teams to generate viable insights and solutions for the customer journey.
Building a Comprehensive Journey Map
A well-structured journey map should include several essential swim lanes that depict customer interactions throughout their experience. These typically encompass the steps taken by the customer, their thoughts and emotions, touchpoints utilized, and the behind-the-scenes processes that support these interactions. To effectively narrate the customer's story, additional elements such as key metrics or an emotion curve can be incorporated, allowing the map to be tailored to different audience needs, especially when communicating insights to executives. This layered approach not only clarifies customer experiences but also highlights the interconnected ecosystem that contributes to the overall journey.
Transitioning from Mapping to Solutioning
After mapping the journey and identifying pain points, transitioning to the solution phase requires careful facilitation to harness creative ideas effectively. Techniques like brain writing or the CX pyramid can encourage diverse thinking and enhance idea generation among participants while ensuring everyone contributes and feels comfortable in the brainstorming process. Following ideation, prioritization becomes essential, allowing the group to evaluate potential solutions based on value to the customer and feasibility, ultimately identifying quick wins and strategic initiatives. This structured approach not only fosters productive sessions but also sets the stage for further validation and implementation of the proposed solutions.
This is the second episode in a 4-part deep-dive on journey mapping with Forrester’s journey mapping expert, Joana de Quintanilha. In this installment, Joana digs into the journey map creation process, discussing the importance of planning journey mapping workshops and breaking down common challenges and best practices.
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