Customer Insights Begins With Me (Synchronous e-learning)
About This Course
In the digital economy, customers are making decisions quicker, and many companies find themselves powerless in influencing such decisions. The prime reason is simple: the transparency of the web has changed the business game forever. Customers are empowered and dictate what they want, when and where they want it. Following Google’s philosophy, “focus on the customer and all else will follow” many organisations are becoming more customer-centric.
This course will enable participants to embark on a journey of revisiting and co-designing customer-centric strategies in 1 day.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Conduct user research and synthesize data from multiple sources in order to discover unmet needs and develop ideas.
• Leverage the power of Data Analytics, and understand customers’ preferences and buying patterns.
• Use cost-effective small-scale experiments to fine-tune customer focus.
What You'll Learn
• Approach: Understand customer behavior
Leveraging the power of data analytics, you can get closer to your customers and understand their preferences and buying patterns. First, you will identify and define a business problem that can be solved by using external and internal customer data. Following that, you will learn and practise relevant data collection and analytical methods to solve those problems. Critical issues such as “when to use what techniques”, and “which is the best tool” will be addressed.
• Create: Predict customer behavior
Using historical data is a double-edged sword. Although we can learn from the past, it will also hinders our creative thinking and progress. Arguably, historical data often fails in predicting customers’ future needs. Most customer breakthroughs originate from a unique ‘insight’ – the identification of an unmet need. To create a customer insight for tomorrow, we need to understand problems from a human perspective, and to find meaningful purpose behind innovation. Guided by behavioural research, you will learn new ways to uncover insights behind what customers need and desire and practise relevant techniques in searching for novelty and usefulness of customer insights.
• Validate: Influence customer behavior
There are huge economical and social implications if your customer insights are wrong. For the purpose of validation and evaluation, examples and methods will be introduced to design and conduct Action Research in a simple way. You will see quick results of small-scale experiments and fine-tune your customer insights, to reduce business risks and uncertainties.