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Thinking on digital strategy, customer journey mapping and customer experience

Perspectives from our work – on strategy, customer journey mapping, technology, customer research, and building the capability to make it all stick.

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Digital Strategy

2 articles

Digital strategy vs. digital marketing: what's the difference?

April 2026 · Written by AI, sense checked by Zuni

Many organisations use these terms interchangeably, but they describe fundamentally different things. Getting the distinction right changes how you resource, plan, and evaluate your digital efforts.

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What is a content and channel strategy?

April 2026 · Written by AI, sense checked by Zuni

Many organisations are producing content and distributing it across digital channels – but without a strategy behind either. Here's what a content and channel strategy actually involves, and why starting without one creates problems that are hard to fix later.

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Customer Journey Mapping

7 articles

Five signs your customer journey maps are gathering dust

March 2026 · Written by AI, sense checked by Zuni

Journey maps are one of the most used – and misused – tools in digital strategy. Here's how to tell if yours are actually driving change, or just sitting in a presentation deck.

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What is customer journey mapping?

November 2022 · Sharlene Zeederberg

Customer journey mapping analyses each segment of your audience and outlines the stages they go through to purchase your product or service – and why it's central to any customer-centric digital strategy.

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The customer journey mapping myth: why you should start with what you know

March 2024 · Sharlene Zeederberg

Theory says start with customer research. Our experience says otherwise. Building an assumptive map first – from what the business already knows – leads to sharper research, better alignment, and more actionable outputs.

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Don't forget these key steps if you want to develop useful and usable customer journey maps

March 2024 · Sharlene Zeederberg

A customer journey map is more than a pretty picture. The ones that actually drive change are resource-intensive to build and follow a disciplined process – here's what that looks like.

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Why customer journey mapping is not colour by numbers

May 2024 · Sharlene Zeederberg

Templates and step-by-step guides make journey mapping look deceptively simple. Here's why a generic template will never give you a map that's actually useful to your business.

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Why can't I make my relationship with my current customers fit into my customer journey?

May 2024 · Sharlene Zeederberg

Acquisition journeys and retention journeys are fundamentally different beasts. If you're trying to shoe-horn your existing customer relationships into an AIDA framework, here's why it's not working.

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The difference between customer experience maps and customer touchpoint maps

May 2024 · Sharlene Zeederberg

People use 'customer journey' to mean very different things. Conflating a touchpoint map with a customer experience map leads to disappointment – and a map that doesn't actually drive insight.

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Customer Research

2 articles

Why your customer journey map needs real research, not just internal opinions

April 2026 · Written by AI, sense checked by Zuni

Internal workshops are a great place to start a journey map. They are a terrible place to finish one. Without real customer research, you end up mapping how the business thinks the experience works – not how it actually does.

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Qualitative or quantitative? Choosing the right customer research approach

April 2026 · Written by AI, sense checked by Zuni

Qualitative tells you why. Quantitative tells you how many. Most strategic questions need both – but knowing which to lead with, and how much of each you actually need, is the difference between research that informs decisions and research that just generates data.

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Marketing Technology

1 article

How to choose a CRM without being sold to

November 2025 · Written by AI, sense checked by Zuni

The CRM market is crowded and every vendor claims to solve your problems. A vendor-neutral selection process starts with requirements, not demos – and the difference is significant.

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Training & Capability

1 article

Building in-house digital capability: when training beats hiring

July 2025 · Written by AI, sense checked by Zuni

Hiring for digital expertise is expensive, competitive, and often delivers short-term gains. For many organisations, a structured investment in internal capability produces better and more durable results.

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