CHAPTER 1: THE CUSTOMER JOURNEY

In this introductory chapter, we’ll review a key concept for DSV – the customer journey. The content includes:

The concept of the customer journey; and

How to design and improve customer journeys.

ITIL 4 describes a customer journey as “the complete end-to-end experience customers have with one or more service providers and/or their products through the touchpoints and service interactions”.

Value streams and customer journeys

Figure 1 shows the relationships between value streams and customer journeys.

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Figure 1: Relationships between value streams and customer journeys1

A customer journey will always rely ...

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