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Connected strategies for success: strategy and growth planning

Writer's picture: Melanie FosterMelanie Foster

Connected strategies are not just a passing trend. Have you explored how they can be the key to establishing a sustainable competitive advantage for your business's future?


Revolutionary business models involve new products and services and maximising value by overcoming barriers in customer relationships. Connected strategies play a vital role in these models.


By responding to customers at every step and identifying them at every touchpoint, you can offer more valuable and relevant customer experiences, which is where the power of connected strategies lies: in your hands, to create experiences that truly resonate with your customers.


Thanks to new technologies enabling frequent, low-friction, customised digital interactions, companies can now address customers’ needs when they arise—and sometimes even earlier. What's genuinely innovative here is not the technologies these strategies incorporate but how companies deploy those technologies to foster continuous relationships with customers. A well-defined framework is crucial for companies to determine how they should interact with customers, with whom they should interact, and how these interactions should vary across channels.


A connected strategy revenue model identifies ecosystem players, understands their conflicting objectives, and leverages technology to maximise value.


Have you considered understanding and tapping into buyers’ expectations to create a connected customer experience? By implementing an effective strategy and growth planning, you can drive customer satisfaction to new heights, showing your customers that you are attentive and responsive to their needs.


73% of customers say that one company’s exceptional experiences had raised their expectations with other companies.


The more data a company has, the better it can tailor its offerings. Many companies strategically invest in data gathering and analytics to shape their future. A sustainable revenue model hinges on demonstrating how data benefits customers. By better understanding our customers, we can use networked data to deliver the relevant customer experience that today’s reality demands.


Our mature clients use customer data to fulfil their needs reasonably and without compromising privacy. They use the data and knowledge collected to personalise and link customer experience.


The new customer journey allows a company to match better an individual customer’s needs with its existing products and services. Integrating a single customer view across all channels and customer touchpoints is crucial.


Today’s customers are demanding and expect companies to know the next step in the customer journey before they do. Networked customer data can help us better understand the touchpoints that make up the customer journey. Companies must consistently have great experiences at multiple touchpoints, from the web to mobile to social media and even the physical world.


A connected customer experience includes meaningful engagement at every customer journey point.


  • Reassure your customers that their privacy and security are paramount.

  • Show them you will only recommend products and services in good faith and safeguard their personal information.


Please direct customers to the most efficient support channels, use technology to proactively remind them of their needs and how you meet them, and provide both encouragement and solutions to achieve their goals.

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