placeholder
North Star

Defining the experience enablers


In Part 3 of this six-part series, we investigate the second fundamental of our Design-led approach – Defining the enablers.

Businesses need to have a clear sight of the system of components required to deliver the experience. To understand the future state and the associated changes, the new service ecosystem of enablers, requirements, roles and partnerships needs to be defined. In turn, this informs the operational design and implementation roadmaps with which to mobilise delivery teams and help colleagues understand their role in making it happen.

The associated challenges that businesses face:

  • Reshaping the operating model to realise the target experience.
  • Understanding the operational components of a service and how they need to work together.
  • Untangling, organising and rationalising the backlog and projects in play.
  • Knowing where to focus finite resources and effort to achieve strategic goals.

The activities and assets that help you succeed:

  • Identifying the enablers and requirements to describe what's needed to achieve the stated outcomes and objectives for the customer and business.
  • Designing the service ecosystem and determining how each component will relate to each other.
  • Defining roles and behaviours to support new ways of working and develop training.
  • Co-creating the operational design and the way the business is set up to deliver the services and products.
  • Plotting experience roadmaps to focus energy and sequence the projects that will drive the step change.

 

Other Perspectives

Engine becomes an Employee-Owned Trust
Designing customer experience in 2026 and beyond
Close the gap between design and delivery: 5 tips for success
10 design principles to build a strong foundation for trust
Trust could be costing you millions
4 ways to transform CX through cross-functional leadership
Children at aquarium
Turning visits into relationships: designing destinations that last
Louvre customer experience
Why too much choice hurts your destination
United team
Making big ideas stick: How Engine unites vision and execution
Host don't operate
Host, don’t operate: the human side of designing destinations
CX Vision
Winning over hearts and minds: the secret to creating a lasting design and change culture
Destinations that people feel
Designing destinations that people feel

Ready to reimagine?