Advice & Insight
Reflections on customer advisory boards, customer relationships, and what it takes to strengthen them both.
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The Challenge of Building Customer-Centricity
Customer centricity is not as simple as making it your mission statement - done well it often requires a change in incentive structures and organizational design.
The Power of In-person Customer Advisory Board Meetings
Over the last 2+ years, we have all experienced an uptick in technology use — whether for work-related purposes, educational, or grocery shopping via your mobile device — COVID accelerated the use of technology in both business and personal life. We too leveraged technology as we quickly pivoted from in-person customer advisory board meetings to virtual sessions here at Farland Group.
Is it a Good Time to Launch a Customer Advisory Board?
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Stop Admiring the Problem…Get Thee to a Customer Advisory Board Meeting!
I know brainstorm sessions can prove to be extremely valuable. Why? Because we hear it often in our work at Farland Group — whether in a customer advisory board meeting, or in a working group session in between board meetings.
2021 Word of the Year
As we near the end of 2021 , I want to share my word of the year. At the end of 2020, I wrote about adaptability, and while there are many words I could use to describe my 2021 (because it has been quite the year!) the one that sticks out for me is virtual.
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