cascading collaboration CXPeople live in their own functional domains. They have their responsibilities, their metrics, and they can become defenders of their domains. Though from the best intentions, internal competition ultimately creates the reactionary boundaries that we have come to call silos, which harm an organization in ways that are becoming increasingly fatal.

I won’t spend an inordinate amount of time on this because we all know and dislike silos. We have built an awareness of the problem, and we have an accurate model, so our task is to put our heads together and figure out how to stop them.

As it turns out, customer experience unlocks a radical capability of mapping the customer journey. This sounds innocent enough, I’ll admit, but if you look deeper you will see that this fundamental process is anathema to silos. To destroy silos, all you need to do is focus on changing customer journeys.

And you can use the fundamental discord between customer and internal competitiveness to generate a cascading disruption throughout the organization – a chain reaction that is like a noise of the perfect pitch to shatter glass – which can thus demolish silos where they stand.

From Touchpoint to Customer Journey: How the simple act of connecting the dots will start a revolution…