Customer Experience Management

HYVE Innovation Radar | Customer Research | Customer Journey Mapping | Search field identification

Innovation based in CX

Customers interact with brands across many touchpoints—digital and physical. They expect a consistent, personalized yet simple experience. Yet delivering that becomes more complex as channels and technologies multiply.

Customer Experience (CX) management addresses this challenge by actively shaping how people engage with products, services, and brands in a coordinated way. It operates both, strategically—by defining experience goals and providing the needed resources —and operationally—by bringing those goals to life through concrete interactions. Thus, it lays the foundation to make informed decisions that drive successful innovation process.

As pioneers in customer-centricity, HYVE provides a holistic perspective on CX, bridging digital, product, and service design. We focus on the early phases, where CX can spark innovation, while staying committed to building the basis for end-to-end experience management. This helps us turn CX into a driver for innovation, aligning user needs with business value to deliver solutions that are desirable, feasible, and ready to implement.

Do you want to transform your Customer Experience?

Customer insights foundation

The strong base: A thorough understanding of customers & context

We build on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of all existing insights. These are mapped along the HYVE Innovation Radar. It provides orientation across key dimensions such as trends, technologies, market regulations, and strategic goals. Our customer-centric approach analyzes existing consumer insights, identifies gaps and white spots, and addresses these through targeted, new consumer studies. This leads to a deep understanding of the customer landscape, including core motivational needs that drive the customers’ journey.

Based on this, a high-level Master Journey is constructed—a strategic narrative of the envisioned future experience. It focuses on emotional drivers, user needs, and Jobs to Be Done (JTBD), independent of specific segments or product categories.

Define strategic search fields

Know where to go: Search fields provide the direction

Identifying strategic search fields is about defining where to focus innovation efforts. This happens by aligning the organization’s strategic directives with key external perspectives: the evolving needs and behaviors of consumers, emerging trends and technologies, and movements within the broader industry landscape. By intersecting these dimensions, we uncover areas with both relevance and potential—spaces where meaningful experiences can be created and business impact can be achieved.

Product & Service Development

Get going: Bring CX to a product and service level

To move from strategic direction to actionable innovation, we identify concrete opportunity areas—spaces where experience improvements, new products, or services can create real value. This process begins by deepening the customer perspective through targeted research, uncovering unmet needs, pain points, and key highlight moments. In parallel, we integrate the business perspective, ensuring ideas align with organizational goals and capabilities. Thus, we move from the overarching master journey to the detailed level.

Through collaborative co-creation sessions, we develop and refine ideas that respond to both user needs and strategic priorities. In the further process, our teams then bring the ideas to live: No matter if it’s about digital solutions or physical products – we accompany our clients on their journey to implementation-ready and validated solutions.

Monitoring & Maintenance

Keep the momentum: Establish the routines for monitoring & maintenance

A consistent outstanding customer experience doesn’t end with product implementation —it needs continuous maintenance. Starting with defining the right KPIs early on: metrics that reflect customer value and make sense within an organization’s structure and goals. Alongside this, clear processes and routines must be established to keep CX efforts alive over time. This includes connecting to relevant data sources and setting up continuous tracking to monitor how experiences evolve. As customer needs, technologies, and market conditions change, so too must the experience. CX management is not a one-time initiative—it’s an ongoing practice that ensures relevance, consistency, and impact over the long term.

Empowerment

Move from silos to synergy: Structuring CX success

For CX management to take root, it needs a solid organizational foundation. This means defining clear structures, allocating the right teams and resources, and embedding CX responsibilities across departments. We help you to define the process and structure in accordance with your needs, and empower teams to act upon them. When set up effectively, these foundations foster synergies, encourage collaboration, and help break down silos that often hinder experience consistency. The goal is to make CX a shared priority—integrated into daily operations rather than isolated in a single function.

With the right setup, organizations can act faster, align better, and deliver more cohesive experiences end-to-end. The ultimate goal is a coherent, seamless experience—one that feels simple to the customer, no matter the complexity behind it. The good news: organizations can start anywhere, as long as they commit to moving forward, step by step.

Do you want to elevate your customers' experience to the next level?