Keys for the Future

How does a company succeed in becoming more customer-oriented? How can service orientation be lived?

With the program “Keys for the Future”, service orientation can be actively addressed. The concept provides you with a structured approach that has been tried and tested over many years. It aims at creating awareness in your company for the quality of service provision from the perspective of your internal and external customers.

The approach entails a change in perspective by developing the attitude that everyone is both customer and supplier at the same time – also when working with colleagues. All participants are enabled to identify gaps in quality and performance and to close these gaps with measurable success.

“Keys for the Future” consists of three modules that are introduced successively and applied in virtual or analog workshops.

THREE STEPS TO CUSTOMER AND SERVICE ORIENTATION

“Keys for the Future” follows a pragmatic approach that supports you and your company in dealing with service provision from the customer’s point of view, and helps identify and close performance gaps:

Tool 1

TAKE CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS SERIOUSLY

The first tool in the program gives you the opportunity to put yourself in the shoes of your internal and external customers and to analyze your customer-supplier relationships.
Tool 2

UNDERSTAND CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS

Review your services from the perspective of your customers. By identifying quality and performance gaps, you will raise awareness for the expectations of your internal and external customers in the company. 

Tool 3

MEET CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS

By using the third and last tool of the program, it is possible to set an example of service orientation for your employees and to close the identified quality and performance gaps with measurable success.

STRENGTHEN CUSTOMER AND SERVICE ORIENTATION

You want to live service orientation in your company? Discover “Keys for the Future”: 

Perspektivwechsel

CUSTOMER-SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS

With the completion of the three modules, the awareness of internal and external customer expectations among your employees will be sharpened. In this way, you create the conditions for optimally functioning internal and external customer-supplier relationships.

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MEET CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS

The concept interlocks theory and practice by applying concrete services from your day-to-day business. While learning the methodology, you identify and close actual quality and performance gaps and increase the satisfaction of your internal and external customers.

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EMPOWER EMPLOYEES

The program enables all involved parties to recognize and to measurably close quality and performance gaps. You increase the identification of your employees with their respective functions as well as the company and, in this way, enhance the service orientation in the team.

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INVOLVE EMPLOYEES

The choice is yours: Keys for the Future can be applied to the service portfolio of individual employees, teams, divisions, or the entire company. The program is easily scalable and can also be fully coordinated via digital channels.

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TRAIN MULTIPLIERS

Are your managers working at full capacity? Multipliers learn the method of “Keys for the Future” to actively support the managers. In this way, the know-how is anchored in your company and the application of the method is secured in the medium and long term.

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CROSS-DIVISIONAL NETWORKING

The interdisciplinary character of the program strengthens the cross-departmental networking in your company and breaks up historically grown silos. Our experience shows that reflecting on one’s own role as a supplier or customer increases the potential for interdisciplinary use of existing system intelligence.

INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRAM

Each tool of the “Keys for the Future” program is accompanied by explanatory videos that vividly illustrate the procedure to strengthen customer and service orientation in your company. Below you will find an example of the introductory video for the tool “Take customer expectations seriously”:

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    ELEMENTS OF THE THREE TOOLS TO STRENGTHEN CUSTOMER AND SERVICE ORIENTATION

    Tool 1: TAKE CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS SERIOUSLY

    • Who are our internal and external customers?
    • What reference points or interfaces exist with internal and external customers?
    • How do we open up to our customers and their expectations?
    • How do we create conditions to improve long-term customer-supplier relationships?

    OPEN UP TO MEET CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS!

    Tool 2: UNDERSTAND CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS

    • Describe the primary task: What is the reason for existence of the considered function (e.g. team, department)?
    • Understand value chains: Who are the internal and external customers and suppliers of the respective department?
    • Determine services: Which provided services meet the requirements and needs of internal and external customers?
    • Describe customer expectations: What do internal and external customers expect from the respective services?
    • Identify gaps in performance: To what extent are internal and external expectations of clients are met in relation to the respective service?
    • Prioritize the processing of performance gaps: Which of the identified performance gaps should be addressed first?
    • Define customer requirements: Which measurable requirements can be derived from the respective customer expectations?

    EXAMINE THE TASKS OF THE CONSIDERED FUNCTION FROM THE CUSTOMER’S PERSPECTIVE AND IDENTIFY PERFORMANCE GAPS

    Tool 3: MEET CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS

    • Determine causes: Collect causes, compile data and determine the most important causes
    • Look for solutions: Develop solution ideas and classify them according to their feasibility
    • Implement solutions: Rollout of the selected solutions
    • Measure success: Measure success using the evaluation criteria identified in step 1

    SHARPEN QUALITY AWARENESS AND CLOSE PERFORMANCE GAPS WITH MEASURABLE SUCCESS

    FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS

    Below you will find meaningful feedback from the participants of the program. In this selected project, the “Keys for the Future” program was implemented across divisions and companies to analyze customer-supplier relationships and review service portfolios at team level. It involved a total of 117 teams which, with the support of two multipliers, were able to implement the program largely independently and thus strengthen the customer and service orientation in the organization.

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