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Customer-Led Innovation
Customers.com® Consulting Services


Your customers have "jobs" to do and outcomes they care about. Only by deeply understanding your customers' context and their desired outcomes can you design solutions that will truly meet their needs.

Outside innovation is a process to engage directly with lead users and passionate customers to commercialize their ideas and to co-design solutions that will better meet their needs.

It's a myth that customers can't show you what they need. Customers are delighted to roll up their sleeves to help your cross-disciplinary team develop innovative products and services, transform business processes, and identify mutually profitable new business models.

Outside innovation should account for more than 50% of your R&D, decreasing your costs and accelerating adoption.

Let us help you to:

  • Identify and recruit lead users to leverage their insights and ideas
  • Establish an outside innovation program
  • Run customer co-design sessions
  • Engage lead customers in ongoing collaborative projects with your subject matter experts
  • Create a customer-centric ecosystem of partners and suppliers to dynamically spot new needs and provide new solutions

Use our unique and repeatable approach to deliver breakthrough innovations. We provide the structure that lets you co-design with lead customers and gain organizational commitment to change.

We can help you nurture your lead customer community so you'll have 24x7 access to customers' insights and validation as you execute on customer co-designed and customer-critical initiatives.

More information on our Customer Co-Design methodology, Customer Scenario Mapping and Voice of the Customer (VOC) services.



 

Contact us to configure a project for your needs:
Phone: +1.617.742.5200
Email: consult "@" psgroup.com

 

For more information, see Customer Co-Design and Customer Scenario Mapping ® Methodology and Voice of the Customer (VOC) services.

For examples of our research in these key areas, see:

Innovation
Customer Co-Design
Customer Advisory Boards
Customer Communities
Online Strategy
Social Media/Web 2.0

 


 

Customer Led-Innovation Strategy Consultants





 

   
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How ready is your firm to practice customer-innovation?

CLIENT EXAMPLES

Agilent:
Lab managers identified, co-designed, and defined valuable new diagnostic services that these customers are now buying.

CitiCard:
Customers in four different segments identified valuable new services that were incorporated into Citi's successful 360-degree service offering.

Toro:
Golf course supervisors, irrigation consultants, and Toro distributors identified and designed a profitable new line of business (training and certification). Commercial real estate developers and Toro distributors co-designed a new business model for fixed price bidding that resulted in saving 6 months and millions of dollars in lost condo sales.

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Customer Scenario® Design: An Approach for Outside Innovation
Co-Designing your business with your customers