Although customer journey mapping has been around for a while, there is renewed interest in it as the journey becomes increasingly digital. Nancy McCrave, customer experience designer at Catalyst, suggests in CRM Magazine (January 2016) that journey maps are only effective when treated as living, breathing things.
“Often,” she says, “stakeholders see customer journeys as one-and-done deals, but this is not the case. Companies need to continually follow through as they map the journey and be vigilant about avoiding experience rot,” or the tendency to add too much complexity.
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About Catalyst
Catalyst is a marketing agency that helps clients develop more profitable customer relationships. We take the guesswork out of marketing decisions by combining our intellectual curiosity and inquisitiveness with hard-core analytics and measurement.
We call it Science + Soul.
It's a powerful combination that improves our clients' marketing, because it yields deeper insights that anticipate customers' needs better.
Nancy McCrave | Senior Experience Designer
For more than 15 years, Nancy McCrave has designed, researched and evaluated user interfaces across a variety of content management systems, as well as financial, retail, and custom/proprietary digital platforms.
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