Customer Research

Engage executives by first understanding executives.

You can’t build a meaningful relationship with someone you just don’t know. We start every project by figuring out what your top customers care about—and where they think your company stands.

Our executive interviews and objective analysis help…

  • Uncover surprising stories and mutual interests
  • Get pointed feedback
  • Capture real customer voices and experiences
  • Identify or confirm customer challenges…and your role in solving them
  • Spot trends as they take shape
  • Discover credibility gaps and improvement opportunities
  • Design programs and experiences in which your customers want or need to participate

Gain C-suite perspective—from a team that is constantly talking to C-suite executives

We talk regularly with senior leaders from multiple industries and around the globe—conducting hundreds of interviews and thousands of casual conversations every year. We routinely explore the complex business and technology issues affecting the CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, CMOs, and other officers at large and mid-size enterprises.

That makes us particularly practiced at asking the right questions and quickly highlighting what is novel, relevant, and useful to their goals—and yours.

Our research may serve as the first phase of a broader strategy initiative or engagement program, or may be a stand-alone project.

  • Audit customer experience, journeys, and interests
  • Evaluate and outline brand permission, competitive advantage, and opportunities for new products, services, and growth
  • Develop topics, speakers, stories, and other content for customer programs
  • Supplement or orient quantitative surveys with a qualitative, C-level perspective
  • Tie insights back into the business

Contact us to talk about the role of research in C-level relationships and engagement programs.

Executive Engagement Programs: Take the Time To Listen

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If customers take the time to tell you, take the time to listen.

Whenever a customer provides feedback, take the time to listen. In a recent meeting a company told me they had “piles of feedback” but no way to respond  

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The Next Frontier…Understanding Your Customers’ Customers

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So you think you’ve nailed it.  You are a B2B marketer who spends 25%-30% of your time with customers; you collect insights across a range of customer communication channels; and you analyze and integrate what you learn into the other  

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Looking to Engage Executives? First, Understand What They Want

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Executives are different from other audiences, and it helps to understand what executives are looking for when they engage with vendors and others. From our work interviewing hundreds of C-level executives every year, we have extracted the key elements that  

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