Customer journey management advanced

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START DATE
February 2, 2026
DURATION
12 weeks
WORKLOAD
6 - 10 hours per week
LANGUAGE
English
PRICE
EUR 1750.00 *

If you are not yet a member of our online campus, this link will take you to the registration page. Membership is free but required to sign up for activities.

DESCRIPTION

A growing number of organisations have adopted customer journey mapping not only as a way to visualise customer experiences, but also as a management approach to connect strategy, operations, and customer outcomes. However, they recognise that the true challenge is not in producing different zoom-level maps, comprehensive atlases, or playbooks, but in embedding journey management into the operating model of the organisation. At this stage, CJM becomes a discipline for managing customer lifecycles, aligning functions around shared outcomes, and enabling business transformation at scale. The complexity increases as journeys intersect, data systems expand, and governance demands become critical.

This 12-week course acknowledges those challenges and builds on the solid foundation participants already have, taking them beyond the basics into advanced application. The course takes you deep into the discipline of journey management, combining advanced methods, governance models, and data-driven practices to elevate how you design, maintain, and scale journeys. Through online lessons, live interactive sessions, and peer-to-peer learning, you will not only refine your technical mastery of CJM but also develop the leadership and organisational practices required to embed it sustainably. You will equip yourself and your team to advance managing journey maps as dynamic management tools that guide strategy, operations, and innovation, truly uncovering insights and further guiding your organisation in customer-centric transformation.

This course is part of the Customer Journey Management Mastery Program, equipping professionals with the skills to enable active journey governance and optimisation by learning how CJM fits into the broader customer management and service strategy discipline, functioning as a practice that spans internal structures, cultural mindsets, governance models, service orchestration, and operational capabilities. The program is relevant for organisations responding to challenges such as declining retention, inconsistent service delivery and customer experience, departmental misalignment, or the need for better customer insights. It is equally applicable to those undergoing digital transformation or seeking to differentiate through service. Professionals completing the program will be positioned to support journey-led transformation, shaping initiatives grounded in real-world needs and delivering measurable impact across channels, processes, and teams

For whom
This advanced course is designed for senior professionals, leaders, and their teams who have recently started with, or are already engaged in CJM. It is intended for those responsible for customer experience, digital transformation, service design, or operational excellence, and who are seeking a more deliberate, structured approach.

OUTCOMES

  • Develop and standardise customer journey frameworks
  • Establish internal operations for journey maintenance
  • Practise governance and co-ownership models for customer journeys
  • Instil cross-departmental collaboration through CJM
  • Introduce data-driven decision-making and optimisation
  • Implement journey management technologies and data integrations
  • Define budget and resource allocation for CJM
  • Manage journey-based performance and incentives
  • Leverage CJM for managing service disruptions and crises
  • Establish a continuous improvement process and introducing innovation through CJM
  • Scale customer journey management across your organisation

FORMAT

In this 12-week Master’s level course, you will follow a series of lessons bundled in 12 chapters. Each Monday, the online lessons for that week are unlocked. Each week, you will join a live, interactive class of 2 hours, designed to further let you dive into CJM (recordings will be made available). You can study the content, watch the videos, and do the exercises at your own pace. Because you start at the same time as your fellow participants, you will be able to discuss, exchange feedback, and work on exercises together. Learning with and from your peers is one of the guiding principles of our courses.

All lessons are online, and live sessions will take place via Zoom.

STUDY POINTS

This course is worth 60 SDC study points. You will receive a certificate of completion.

KEYWORDS

Service design, organisational design, CX, business design, design thinking, strategic design, systems thinking

COURSE SYLLABUS

360° SERIES

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ABILITIES 02, 04 05, 06, 07 & 09
LEVELS - EXERCISE & EXECUTE

360° SERIES

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ABILITIES 02, 04 05, 06, 07 & 09
LEVELS - EXERCISE & EXECUTE

START DATE
February 2, 2026
WORKLOAD
6 - 10 hours per week
PRICE
EUR 1750.00 *
DURATION
12 weeks
LANGUAGE
English

If you are not yet a member of our online campus, this link will take you to the registration page. Membership is free but required to sign up for activities.

* US$ 2050.00. This is an early-bird price, valid until November 15, 2025. The regular price is EUR 2100.00 (US$ 2475.00). Prices are exclusive of VAT. Non-EU citizens are exempt from VAT on e-services which includes online courses, workshops and talks.

Meet the tutors & teachers

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Itziar Pobes (Spain) is a seasoned design leader, experienced in establishing service design practices in government and global, corporate environments, anchoring consumer lifecycles as organisation-wide guiding principles for cross-functional alignment, to positively impact organisation's long-term success.

Currently, she is developing key CX design capabilities, including customer journey management, at Zurich Insurance, by continuously optimising and innovating customers’ engagement in order to increase their lifetime value and remain competitive and relevant in today's market.
SDC_Marzia_Arico

Marzia Aricò (Italy) is an executive coach and consultant, former (Managing) Design Director at Livework, supporting organisations to reorient around their customers, work on their mindset, culture, practices, and leadership to embed the customer perspective and thrive through change.

Marzia’s innovative AVOC framework (Anchor, Variations, Outcome, and Change) addresses challenges with outdated organisational hierarchies, inefficient workflows, and inconsistent service delivery by structuring customer journeys, services, and products for more effective and informed decision-making.
SDC_Regina_Beyhl

Regina Beyhl (Germany) is an experienced design leader. As Director of CX Design at Philips and Co-Creation Director at social business consultancy Favela Fabric, she has supported design-led change and CJM/innovation programs across industries for many years.

She is a firm believer in taking a macro to micro customer experience approach, identifying specific moments that matter in the customer journey, analysing the ‘as is’ and exploring the ‘to be’ to develop experiment-driven interventions. Her aim is to elevate customer experience by leveraging design sprints and agile rituals to co-create value and impact.
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Inge Keizer (The Netherlands) is a service design leader specialised in strategic design, creative leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship. She is a conceptual thinker, and an experienced design researcher.

In 2015 she co-founded the Service Design Days and later the Service Design College; growing a global service design network and supporting organisations, teams and individuals in becoming human- and planet-centric, with a primary focus on designing valuable and relevant services based on qualitative insights and successful business models.
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Felipe Camara (Brazil) is a service design leader and strategist, currently Design Director at IKEA. He is a multi-faceted experience designer specialising in journey management and leading organisations through systemic change, embedding service design into business strategy, innovation, and sustainable growth.

With two decades of experience across cultures, he is passionate about the theory of change, believing that meaningful progress comes not from resisting disruption, but from designing for it. He has worked on both the agency and client sides, including over five years at Philips, bringing a unique perspective that bridges creative vision with corporate execution.
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Marc Stickdorn (Germany) is a passionate advocate for service design, journey management, and human-centred design in general. As the founder and CEO of Smaply, he helped shape the market for journey mapping and management software.

Pioneering customer journey management since 2012 and setting the standard for how organisations visualise and manage experiences at scale, Marc is a leading voice in the field, equipping teams and organisations with the mindsets, methods, and tools to embed customer and employee experience (CX/EX) into daily operations.
SDC_people_inge_keizer

Inge Keizer (the Netherlands) is a senior service design consultant specialised in business design, strategic innovation, customer experience and entrepreneurship with 20 years of experience.

She is a conceptual thinker, and an experienced design researcher. In 2015 she co-founded the Service Design Days and later the Service Design College; growing a global service design network and supporting organisations, teams and individuals in becoming human-centric, with a primary focus on designing valuable and relevant services based on qualitative insights and successful business models.
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Mansi Parikh (India) is the founder of Future Tense Inc. As a Futurist & Experimenter Extraordinaire, she explores the liminal spaces between the past, present & future, real & imagined, questioning biases and finding new ways to rebuild through the lenses of sustainability and inclusivity.

She defines herself as 'insatiably curious’; she's like a swiss army knife. Mansi has worked on innovation, cultural insights and trend mapping for brands like Bacardi and Playboy, as well as worked across the Social Impact sector in Conservation, Livelihoods and Healthcare.
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Itziar Pobes (Spain) is strategic designer and researcher, specialised in service design and innovation with 20+ years of experience in interdisciplinary design, creativity, design research and cultural studies.

She is passionate about understanding people and organisations, supporting them when services, products or policies need re-steering, exploring a variety of opportunities and uncovering hidden aspects that need to be questioned and designed. Former co-founder of service design agency We Question Our Project and coordinator of the Master in Service Design at IED.

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