379: Journey Mapping Masterclass 1: Frame The Effort
Nov 5, 2024
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Joana de Quintanilha, a journey mapping expert at Forrester, dives into the intricacies of journey mapping. She explains how effective journey mapping acts as a change management tool, detailing a structured seven-step approach. The discussion highlights essential preparations for journey mapping workshops, including identifying key participants and crafting customer personas. Joana emphasizes the importance of thorough scoping, stakeholder involvement, and balancing qualitative with quantitative data to drive meaningful customer experience improvements.
Framing the journey mapping effort is essential, as it establishes a clear purpose and aligns with business objectives to drive meaningful change.
The customer journey mapping canvas is a crucial tool that guides teams in structuring their efforts, focusing on essential questions for improved outcomes.
Deep dives
Understanding Journey Mapping as Change Management
Journey mapping serves as a vital tool in driving change within organizations, functioning as both a mapping and management process. It encompasses three primary phases: framing the mapping effort, creating the journey map, and ensuring the sustainability of improvements. The framing phase is crucial as it sets the foundation for success by defining a clear purpose, such as addressing customer churn or enhancing a particular user experience. Establishing a sense of urgency and identifying key stakeholders is essential during this phase, as it ensures that the mapping process is aligned with specific business objectives.
The Importance of the Journey Mapping Canvas
The customer journey mapping canvas is an influential tool designed to aid organizations in effectively structuring their journey mapping efforts. It prompts users to reflect on essential questions like the specific business challenge being addressed, metrics for success, and the audience for the journey map. This tool not only helps frame the current effort but also prepares teams for subsequent mapping stages by guiding their thinking around fundamental aspects like stakeholder involvement and data sources. Overall, utilizing this canvas can significantly enhance the likelihood of meaningful outcomes from the journey mapping exercise.
Identifying the Right Personas and Journeys
Selecting the appropriate persona and journey to map is critical to the success of the journey mapping process. Organizations must consider various factors, such as strategic importance and pain points, to prioritize which journeys to undertake. Personas should be developed based on qualitative and quantitative data to create empathy and ensure a deep understanding of customer motivations and challenges. This understanding allows teams to map journeys in a way that aligns with customer needs while also addressing organizational goals, ultimately facilitating effective change.
This is the first in a 4-episode deep-dive on journey mapping with our journey mapping expert, Joana de Quintanilha. In this episode, Joana gives an overview of the journey mapping effort, from scoping through to improving the customer experience itself.
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