For those of you familiar with our work you will know that we successfully validated the link between a customer centric culture and new product success. Our chart below shows the links between our 8 dimensions of a customer centric culture and the key business performance outcomes.
Essentially organizations that develop a cultural focus that is obsessed with customers, outperform everyone else in the markets in which they play.
I just came across a great example of how this can work in reverse for a company that has not developed a customer culture – Comcast Cable.
Comcast recently announced a major new product – they are now a cell phone provider in the US market:
Here is the reaction I found in some comments people who saw this announcement on LinkedIn (the majority of the comments were along the same line….):
This is of course only anecdotal evidence, however, it is going to make it tough to make this product launch a success with an undercurrent of negative feelings towards the experiences many customers have had with the brand in the past….
How you treat your current customers today will have a massive impact on how they will respond to new product introductions in the future.
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