There is a way to better identify and share customer experience (CX) metrics. And it is a tool that your company – like many others may already be using… but not for that purpose. I am talking about journey mapping. Recently I have done more and more workshops for our clients on how to use journey mapping for defining CX metrics so I wanted to put that thinking into a new report for all clients to read.

Why journey mapping? It helps overcome some of the key challenges for CX measurement programs: Only if you understand the end-to-end journey your customers take for accomplishing a goal are you likely to have the right metrics in place to judge CX performance. If you don’t understand the journeys, you’ll rush to judgment with ill-timed surveys, miss important moments of truth and fail to align operational data with customer perceptions. That means you’ll fail to identify ways to improve critical touchpoints.

So if you, too, are struggling with CX metrics, my new report “How to use journey mapping to improve CX measurement efforts” is the right read for you. It is very practical because it describes a four-step process for how you can use customer journey mapping to improve your customer experience measurement programs – from mapping the customer journey with metrics in mind to identifying gaps, to defining CX metrics that fill those gaps, to building on journey maps to share CX metrics more effectively.

And please – if you have any thoughts on the report – let me know what you think at mschmidt [A T] forrester.com.