Season 1 / Episode 3 S1E03

The Customer Journey as an Operating System

Understand, through a simplified five-stage teaching framework, the operational work behind each stage of a customer's experience.

Episode overview

The customer journey isn't just marketing. Every stage, from awareness and inquiry to onboarding, delivery and retention, has a visible experience and invisible work behind it. In this lesson we map both layers with a simplified service blueprint, follow a fictional freelance designer, find the handoffs where journeys often break, and give every handoff an owner.

What you will learn

  • Understand, through a simplified five-stage teaching framework, the operational work behind each stage of a customer's experience.

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