Mapping experiences : a complete guide to customer alignment through journeys, blueprints, and diagrams / Jim Kalbach.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-398) and index.

Visualizing value: aligning outside-in — Fundamentals of mapping experiences — Employee experience: aligning inside — Visualizing strategic insight — Initiate: starting a mapping project — Investigate : make it real — Illustrate: make it visual — Alighnment workshops : find the right problem to solve — Envisioning future experiences : build the right solution — Service blueprints — Customer journey maps — Experience maps — Mental model diagrams — Ecosystem models.

Customers who have inconsistemt experiences with products and services are understandably frustrated. But it's worse for organizations that can't pinpoint the causes of these problems because they're too focused on processes. This updated book shows your team how to use alignment diagrams to turn valuable customer observations into actionable insight. With this powerful technique, you can visually map existing customer experience and envision future solutions. Designers, product and brand managers, marketing sepcialists, and business owners will discover how experience diagramming helps you determine where business goals and customer perspectives intersect. Armed with this insight, you can provide the people you serve with real value. Mapping experiences isn't just about product and service design; it's about understanding the human condition. Emphasize recent changes in business using the latest mapping techniques ; Create diagrams that account for multichannel experiences as well as ecosystem design ; Understand how facilitation is increasingly becoming part of mapping efforts, shifting the focus from a deliverable to actionability ; Explore ways to appy mapping of all kinds to noncommercial settings, such as helping victims of domestic violence.