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Foundational concepts
Customer-centricity is a system for delivering what was promised, not a slogan.
A working vocabulary for CX strategy: customer-centricity as systems that make delivery match the promise, behavior triggers that intervene at the moment of struggle, and the organizational failure modes, like product dictatorship and careless democratization, that undermine both.
Customer-centricity is not a value statement. It is a set of systems and processes ensuring the delivered product or service matches what was promised to the customer. Everything else in CX strategy hangs off that definition.
- Behavior triggers: proactive, real-time help at the exact moment of struggle, before users become sad metrics
- Product dictatorship: product teams holding absolute power over what gets built, without accountability
- UX ecosystem strategy: a strategic layer balancing business goals with deep user understanding
- Democratization of CX: letting any employee do specialized research or design work, regardless of training
- Accessibility as mismatch: disability as a gap between a person's current state and their environment, not a medical condition
Two of these are counterweights. Ecosystem strategy exists to check product-centered mindsets. The mismatch framing of accessibility widens the design problem beyond permanent disability to temporary and situational states everyone experiences.
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