Omni Core · Customer Journey Mapping · Module

Redesign

Changing the journey deliberately, with the internal changes that requires — the half that makes mapping worth doing.

The idea

How it works

Journey mapping produces a wall of paper and no change more often than not, because the changes it implies cross functional boundaries and belong to nobody.

The changes that matter are usually organisational rather than interface-level: who does what, in what order, with what information. That is harder to authorise and is where the improvement is.

Working with it

In practice

  1. 01

    Pick three changes, not thirty

    A map produces a long list. Three that happen beat thirty that are documented.

  2. 02

    Name what has to change internally

    Process, ownership or system. A journey change with no internal change attached will not happen.

  3. 03

    Find an owner who spans the boundary

    Changes crossing functions need someone senior enough to authorise both sides.

  4. 04

    Measure the moment, not the programme

    Whether the specific moment improved, rather than whether overall satisfaction moved, which is too noisy to attribute.

One level in

The components of redesign

A component is something that exists afterwards which did not exist before — a deliverable or a mechanism, not an intention.

  1. The changes

    What is being changed in the journey, and where.

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  2. The internal requirement

    What has to change inside the organisation for it to happen.

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  3. The measurement

    Whether the specific moment actually improved.

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A journey change with no internal change attached to it will not happen, however well the map is drawn.