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11 pillars & ucd: diagnostic: are you actually customer-centric?
Customer-centricity is tested by organizational behavior, not by counting CX activities.
A maturity diagnostic built on self-assessment questions: how the organization handles trade-offs, rewards, evidence, and feedback. These test organizational behavior, not CX activity. Failing even a few signals a customer-peripheric culture.
Most maturity checks count activities: journey maps made, surveys sent, workshops held. The real diagnostic asks how the organization behaves when it matters — what it trades off, what it rewards, and what evidence it accepts before deciding.
- Long-term versus short-term trade-offs
- Customer outcomes versus internal metrics
- What the reward system actually pays for
- Evidence-based decision making
- Leading versus lagging indicators
- VOC depth: improving feedback, not just scores
Add one more: whether employees face barriers to acting on customer needs. Failure on even a few of these dimensions indicates a customer-peripheric culture, whatever the CX team's activity log says.
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