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11 Pillars & UCD - Overview
Customer-centricity is an operating model, not a sentiment. It changes structure or it changes nothing.
An overview of what customer-centricity means in practice: organizational change as a requirement, 11 pillars of behavior and governance, grounding in ISO standards and Human-Centered Design, UCD as the execution model, and journeys treated as task-driven, end-to-end systems.
Customer-centricity gets treated as a slogan. In practice it is an operating model with specific commitments: internal change is non-negotiable, eleven pillars define behavior and governance, and User-Centered Design is the canonical way work gets executed.
It also has a formal backbone. ISO standards and Human-Centered Design anchor the discipline, which matters when leadership wants to dismiss CX as taste. And journeys are reframed as task-driven, end-to-end, ecosystem-aware systems — funnel-based and awareness-centric journey thinking is explicitly rejected.
Use this foundation for three things: assessing CX maturity, designing the operating model, and setting strategic governance.
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