Customer journey management essentials

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START DATE
October 20, 2025
DURATION
6 weeks
WORKLOAD
6 - 10 hours per week
LANGUAGE
English
PRICE
EUR 650.00 *

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

In recent years, organisations have become increasingly aware that serving their customers well requires more than mapping the customers’ journeys, addressing pain points and optimising individual touchpoints. Relying on traditional journey mapping efforts often results in static representations that do little to inform day-to-day decision-making, and this isn’t sufficient to drive coordinated, long-term innovation and service improvement. The growing complexity of service ecosystems, increasing customer expectations, and a fragmented operational landscape call for a more structured, integrated approach: Customer Journey Management (CJM). For professionals working across customer experience, marketing, digital strategy, business, operations, and service design, CJM provides a framework to systematically understand, orchestrate and enhance customer interactions, service delivery, and cross-functional alignment across departments, technologies, and service processes.

This 6-week course is designed to provide professionals with a clear understanding of the principles, methods, and tools needed to start managing customer journeys within their organisation. It is aimed at those who are supporting or building the foundations of customer journey practices and want to apply structured thinking to improve service delivery and coordination across touchpoints.

The course introduces essential concepts beyond traditional journey mapping, emphasising how to organise journey information, align efforts with business goals, and use data to inform improvements. Participants will learn how customer journeys align with service orchestration, products and service ecosystems, and internal processes, and how to begin building a modular and scalable approach that supports better collaboration and more effective decision-making.

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
The course is designed for individual professionals and cross-functional teams at the onset of a CJM program, project contributors and other professionals who are directly involved in aspects of customer experience, service design, delivery, or operations, and need a solid foundational understanding of CJM to apply in their day-to-day work.

OUTCOMES

  • Develop and implement a scalable customer journey framework
  • Align internal operations with customer-centric strategies
  • Leverage data-driven decision making for journey optimisation
  • Establish performance metrics and KPIs for continuous improvement
  • Master technology integration for CJM
  •  Kickstart journey management operations across your organisation

FORMAT

In this 6-week introductory level course, you will follow a series of lessons bundled in 6 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 complete 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 40 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

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START DATE
October 20, 2025
WORKLOAD
6 - 10 hours per week
PRICE
EUR 650.00 *
DURATION
6 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$ 750.00. This is an early bird price, valid until July 1, 2025. The regular price is EUR 950.00 (US$ 1095.00).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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Priyanka Singh (India) is an international senior CX strategy and service designer who has worked for corporations such as Toyota, Zurich Insurance, and BOSCH, collaborating with cross-functional teams across EMEA, the US, the UK, and APAC to enhance innovation opportunities and drive business growth.

By challenging the status quo, she spearheads projects to design future-ready service propositions, leveraging design thinking, insight-rich context, and service design and CJM frameworks, and facilitates streamlined business objectives through customer-first storytelling to create effective service strategies.
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Ariel Guersenzvaig (Argentina) teaches and writes about the philosophy and ethics of design and technology.  He is professor of design theory at ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, where he also heads the MA in User Experience.

He's the author of the book 'The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers'. His areas of inquiry is the ethical impact of machine intelligence on society, with a focus on autonomous weapons, health, and algorithmic justice. As a design consultant, he has led projects in service design, innovation, and ethical digital transformation for non-profit and for-profit organisations.
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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