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Mapping Experiences, 3rd Edition
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Mapping Experiences, 3rd Edition

by Jim Kalbach
July 2026
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
10h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Index

A

  • Accelerom AG, 53

  • activating a mapping solution, 191–218

    • alternative worlds approach, 208–209

    • backcasting, 215–216

    • customer transformation focus, 210–211

    • design sprints, 203–205, 214–215

    • future state maps, 194–197, 212–213

    • hypothesis testing, 217–218

    • running experiments, 201–202

    • user story maps, 194–200

  • activating insights, customer-centered collaboration, 24–26

  • activity system map, 273–275

  • Agile development, user stories, 83

  • Airbnb, 4

  • Air Sandwich, 273

  • AI systems and tools

    • drafting a model with, 115

    • employee experience role, 257

    • human-centric company culture to balance, 243

    • for illustrating diagrams, 156

    • for interviewing, 118

    • investigation for a mapping project, 111–112, 113

    • job map generation, 334

    • journey management platforms, 231

    • limitations of, x, 11–12, 23, 235

    • for persona creation, 116

    • qualitative information, 142

    • for research analysis, 123

    • role and limitations, xixii

    • thin versus thick data, 112

  • Alamir, Diego, 14

  • alignment

    • AI limitations in team alignment, 12

    • inside-across. See inside-across (internal) alignment

    • multiple alignment scope, 48–50

    • outside-in. See outside-in (customer experience) alignment

    • for point of view of map, 41

    • principles of, 12

  • alignment attrition, 22

  • alignment diagrams, 5–9

    • in alignment workshop, 164–166

    • benefits of, 13–15

    • customer journey maps. See customer journey maps (CJMs)

    • determining experiences to map, 98–99

    • employee experience, 246–249

    • experience maps. See experience maps

    • framing the mapping effort, 40–48

    • future state maps, 194–197, 212–213, 236

    • identifying moments ...

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