The method

    The Customer Conversation Compass

    Knowing who to listen to doesn’t help if your company has no way to hear them. The Compass is the five places that break once you know who matters, and a way to fix them one at a time.

    Illustration of the telephone game, showing how customer insight distorts as it passes along

    The five pillars

    Each pillar is a different reason customer truth never makes it into your product.

    01DebtYou found them and you still aren’t talking to them directly. The gap gets wider every month.
    02ArchitectureNothing in your calendar puts them in front of your team on a schedule.
    03TuningYou ask questions that already have your answer inside them.
    04AmplificationWhat they said reaches your team as a summary of a summary.
    05TractionEveryone agrees it was a great session and the roadmap doesn’t move.

    Work each pillar for free.