Advice & Insight
Reflections on customer advisory boards, customer relationships, and what it takes to strengthen them both.
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What Makes a Customer Advisory Board Unique and Effective?
As you look to what your priorities are for the future — whether for the rest of this year or next, or five years on the horizon, have you wondered whether you’re making the right decisions? Is your strategy for X, Y, Z sound, and if not, how should you tweak it? How can one gather outside perspectives, advice and feedback that are unbiased? Maybe, starting a customer advisory board is the right answer.
Some Organizations are Focusing on Sustainability, and Customer Advisory Boards Can Help
How organizations can help build a sustainable environment, and on a global scale, has been front and center over the last year. We see it on the news, when reading online content, and we hear it from clients in our work at Farland Group — sustainability has increasingly become a topic of interest for many on our customer advisory boards.
Need Help With Your Security Strategy? Start a Customer Advisory Board
We hear about many different strategy areas and areas of investment from clients for the customer advisory boards and councils that we help facilitate at Farland Group.
Customer Advisory Boards: Invest in Your Customer
Deeply understanding the needs and requirements of your customers requires an investment. Investment of time to establish strong relationships and trust with your customers; that trust will lead to hearing their honest assessments of your business model, products, services and people.
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