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Customer Journey Mapping SERVICE 03 / EXPERIENCE

Understand the experience from the customer’s point of view.

Customer journey mapping turns fragmented interactions into an end-to-end view of the experience.

We map stages, needs, expectations, touchpoints, pain points and moments that influence how people experience a service.

That gives teams a shared view of where the experience works, where it breaks down and where improvement matters most.

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CUSTOMER JOURNEY / END-TO-END NEED → EXPERIENCE → OUTCOME
01 DISCOVER Understand
02 CONSIDER Decide
03 REQUEST Act
04 RECEIVE Experience
05 RESOLVE Outcome
EXPERIENCE
NEED
Find clear information
Understand options
Complete request
Know what happens next
Achieve outcome
TOUCHPOINT
Search
Website
Form / Adviser
Email / Updates
Support
FRICTION
Low
Unclear
Repetition
Waiting
Resolved
NEEDS TOUCHPOINTS EMOTION PAIN POINTS OPPORTUNITY
JOURNEY PRINCIPLE

Organisations see departments and channels. Customers experience one journey.

Why Journey Mapping

See the service through the experience of the person using it.

Customers do not experience organisational structures, internal ownership or departmental boundaries.

They experience a sequence of interactions that together determine whether the service feels simple, confusing, reassuring or frustrating.

Journey mapping brings those interactions together so that teams can understand the experience from beginning to end.

That shared view helps identify where expectations are not met, where customers need more support and where service improvement can create the greatest value.

What journey mapping reveals

Understand what people need at every stage of the journey.

01 STAGES

The journey structure

Understand the stages people move through from initial need to final outcome.

02 NEEDS

What people are trying to achieve

Identify goals, questions and expectations at different points in the service.

03 TOUCHPOINTS

Where interactions happen

Map digital, human, communication and physical interactions across the journey.

04 EXPERIENCE

How the journey feels

Understand moments of confidence, uncertainty, effort, delay or frustration.

05 FRICTION

Where experience breaks down

Identify repeated effort, confusing information, dead ends and service gaps.

06 OPPORTUNITY

Moments that matter

Identify points where improvement can meaningfully change the overall experience.

Journey anatomy

More than a line of customer touchpoints.

A useful journey combines evidence about what people do with what they need, experience and encounter along the way.

01 STAGES

Journey phases

The major steps or phases people move through to achieve an outcome.

02 ACTIONS

What people do

The actions, decisions and behaviours that occur at each stage.

03 NEEDS

What people need

Questions, expectations, information and support required at each stage.

04 TOUCHPOINTS

Where interaction happens

Channels, communications, people and physical or digital service interfaces.

05 EXPERIENCE

How the service feels

Emotional response, confidence, effort and perceived service quality.

06 OPPORTUNITY

Where to improve

Evidence-based opportunities to reduce friction and improve outcomes.

Experience across time

A single bad interaction can affect the entire journey.

Experience is cumulative.

A customer may encounter an excellent website but become frustrated by unclear communication later in the journey.

Another customer may tolerate a slow process if expectations are set clearly and progress is visible.

Journey mapping helps teams understand those relationships rather than evaluating individual touchpoints in isolation.

01 EXPECTATION Before

What people expect before interaction.

02 INTERACTION During

What actually happens in the service.

03 EMOTION Feeling

Confidence, frustration, uncertainty or trust.

04 OUTCOME Result

Whether the person’s need was actually met.

05 MEMORY Perception

How the complete journey is remembered.

Journey mapping activities

Build the journey from evidence, not assumptions.

Strong journey maps are grounded in research and real service evidence rather than workshop opinion alone.

01 SCOPE

Define the journey

Agree the user group, outcome, starting point and ending point.

02 RESEARCH

Gather customer evidence

Use interviews, feedback, analytics and service evidence to understand experience.

03 MAP

Structure the stages

Organise actions, needs and interactions into a coherent end-to-end journey.

04 ANALYSE

Identify pain points

Find friction, uncertainty, unnecessary effort and moments where people struggle.

05 PRIORITISE

Identify moments that matter

Understand which moments have the greatest influence on trust, effort or outcome.

06 REDESIGN

Shape the future journey

Explore how the experience could work better across stages and channels.

Journey mapping outputs

A shared view of the customer’s experience.

The journey becomes a practical tool for aligning teams around customer needs and prioritising service improvement.

01

Current-state journey

A visual representation of the existing end-to-end experience.

02

Customer needs

Clearer understanding of what people need at each stage.

03

Pain points

Evidence of friction, confusion, delay and unnecessary effort.

04

Moments that matter

Priority interactions that strongly influence overall experience.

05

Future-state journey

A clearer model for the experience the organisation wants to create.

06

Improvement priorities

Practical opportunities for service, channel and operational change.

When Journey Mapping helps

Useful when the customer experience feels fragmented.

01

Customers move across multiple channels, teams or systems to achieve one outcome.

02

Customer feedback identifies frustration but the journey causing it is unclear.

03

Different teams own different stages and no one sees the complete experience.

04

A digital service is being redesigned without understanding the broader journey.

05

Repeated contact, abandonment or customer effort needs to be understood.

06

Teams need an evidence-based future-state experience around which to align.

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We can help map the complete journey, identify pain points and make the most important opportunities for improvement visible.

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