Developing Compelling Service Chain Linkages

Developing Compelling Service Chain Linkages

As we explained in an earlier blog post on Service Chains, a Service Chain is a pre-planned set of offerings that have an entry offering with linkages and methods that pull-through the other offerings. Service chains formalize implied client value propositions by...
Evaluating Ideas: Criteria to Foster Customer Intimacy

Evaluating Ideas: Criteria to Foster Customer Intimacy

When developing Service Chains™ it is important to evaluate their business value and your ability to implement them in the market. At McMann & Ransford, we recommend tracking the following criteria to help foster customer intimacy:Strategic...
Leading with Ideas: The Key to Customer Intimacy

Leading with Ideas: The Key to Customer Intimacy

Let’s take some time and discuss the power of ideas and their importance as the central component of a True Solutions™.  Good ideas facilitate the road to true customer intimacy. A solution is the embodiment of an idea – and how the idea can be...
Developing True Solutions – Not Product Development

Developing True Solutions – Not Product Development

Typically in the Form phase of the Customer Intimacy Journey, you will develop the initial True Solutions™ sets and take them to market. Like product development, a framework and process exists to define, develop and take your Solutions to market in a deliberate...