A tailored course, built for your situation
Enterprise-Class Customer-Centric Operating Models for Established Enterprises
Master the architecture, execution, and governance of customer-centric operating models at enterprise scale
The situation this course is for
Even with strong vision and customer insight, enterprise teams struggle to operationalize customer-centricity at scale. Silos, legacy governance, and incremental change approaches dilute impact. Practitioners need a structured, proven blueprint to move from vision to sustained execution, without destabilizing core operations.
Who this is for
Business and technology leaders in established enterprises leading digital transformation, operating model redesign, customer experience initiatives, or enterprise agility programs
Who this is not for
Startups, consultants selling generic frameworks, or professionals seeking introductory overviews of customer experience
What you walk away with
- Design a customer-centric operating model aligned to enterprise complexity
- Navigate governance and leadership alignment in matrixed organizations
- Implement cross-functional operating rhythms that sustain momentum
- Integrate customer signals into strategic planning and performance management
- Build internal capability to evolve the operating model over time
The 12 modules (with all 144 chapters)
- Defining enterprise customer-centricity
- Differentiating from consumer CX initiatives
- Core dimensions: strategy, structure, systems
- Balancing innovation with operational stability
- Case: Global manufacturing transformation
- Case: Regulated financial services evolution
- The role of leadership coalitions
- Common failure patterns and how to avoid them
- Assessing organizational maturity
- Aligning to enterprise strategy
- Integrating with ESG and sustainability goals
- Building the business case
- Designing for scale and complexity
- Layering strategy, governance, and execution
- Role of centers of excellence vs embedded teams
- Decision rights and escalation pathways
- Cross-functional workflow design
- Integrating with ERP and legacy systems
- Managing technical debt in transformation
- Operating model blueprints by industry
- Designing for resilience
- Versioning and evolution planning
- Stakeholder mapping and influence planning
- Change adoption risk assessment
- Building leadership coalitions
- Designing governance forums
- Cadence of reviews and decisions
- Balancing short-term performance with long-term transformation
- KPI alignment across functions
- Budgeting for dual operations
- Managing competing priorities
- Leadership communication frameworks
- Conflict resolution in transformation
- Succession planning for change roles
- Board-level reporting structures
- External stakeholder engagement
- Designing customer feedback loops
- Integrating qualitative and quantitative data
- Voice of Customer at scale
- Customer journey analytics integration
- Linking insight to product and service evolution
- Privacy and data governance considerations
- Closing the loop with customers
- Building customer advisory structures
- Synthesizing cross-channel insights
- Real-time signal processing
- Insight governance and quality control
- Scaling insight teams
- Designing cross-team planning cycles
- Integrating product, marketing, sales, and service
- Quarterly operating rhythms
- Backlog prioritization frameworks
- Dependency management
- Conflict resolution protocols
- Cadence of reviews and retrospectives
- Scaling rituals across geographies
- Digital tooling for coordination
- Performance tracking across functions
- Adapting rhythms to business cycles
- Sustaining engagement over time
- Identifying skill gaps
- Designing learning pathways
- Internal certification frameworks
- Coaching and mentoring structures
- Leadership development for change
- Building internal consulting capability
- Succession planning for key roles
- Performance management alignment
- Incentive design for collaboration
- Diversity in transformation teams
- External partnership strategies
- Measuring capability growth
- Assessing technology readiness
- Integration with CRM and ERP systems
- Data architecture for customer insights
- API strategies for interoperability
- Low-code platforms for agility
- Change management for IT teams
- Security and compliance alignment
- Vendor selection frameworks
- Cloud-native operating models
- Automation of operating rhythms
- Monitoring and observability
- Future-proofing technology choices
- Designing KPIs for customer-centricity
- Balancing leading and lagging indicators
- Customer effort score integration
- Financial impact measurement
- Employee experience metrics
- Benchmarking against peers
- Diagnostic tools for model health
- Feedback loops for model evolution
- Version control for operating models
- Scaling successful pilots
- Sunsetting outdated practices
- Reporting to executive leadership
- Change network design
- Identifying change agents
- Communication strategy frameworks
- Overcoming resistance patterns
- Celebrating early wins
- Sustaining momentum over years
- Cultural assessment and alignment
- Language and narrative design
- Storytelling for change
- Inclusion in transformation
- Measuring adoption depth
- Scaling through networks
- Integrating with annual planning
- Budgeting for transformation
- ROI frameworks for customer-centricity
- Linking to sales performance
- Pricing and value communication
- Commercial model innovation
- Partnership revenue models
- Customer lifetime value tracking
- Investment prioritization
- Cost structure evolution
- Funding innovation within constraints
- Balancing efficiency and growth
- Designing for global scalability
- Regional adaptation frameworks
- Cultural intelligence in execution
- Legal and compliance variation
- Language and localization
- Time zone and coordination challenges
- Regional leadership models
- Balancing central control with autonomy
- Knowledge sharing across regions
- Local innovation capture
- Global branding consistency
- Managing geopolitical shifts
- Transitioning from project to operating model
- Institutionalizing customer-centric practices
- Leadership succession planning
- Board engagement strategies
- External recognition and benchmarking
- Thought leadership development
- Ecosystem partnership cultivation
- Continuous improvement frameworks
- Anticipating future disruptions
- Building resilience into the model
- Measuring long-term organizational health
- Legacy and impact
How this maps to your situation
- Leading transformation in regulated, global enterprises
- Scaling customer-centric practices beyond pilots
- Aligning leadership across functions and regions
- Sustaining momentum through business cycles
Before vs. after
What's included with your purchase
- 12 modules with 12 chapters each (144 chapters)
- Downloadable templates and worked examples for every module
- Hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Delivery and format
- Course and learning environment access provisioned within 24 hours of purchase
- Hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access
Format: Text-based modules and chapters in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every chapter, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.
Time investment: Approximately 60 hours of structured learning, designed for asynchronous progress alongside full-time responsibilities
How this compares to the alternatives
Unlike generic frameworks or academic overviews, this course delivers implementation-grade methods specifically for established enterprises, combining architectural depth with practical tooling and governance strategies absent in off-the-shelf solutions.
Frequently asked
Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.