Succeed with Customers
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Succeed with Customers
This course is part of Leadership for Everyone Specialization
Instructor: Harvard Business Review
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What you'll learn
Learn deeply about customers and identify ways to deliver additional value.
Develop a customer-focused team by empowering employees.
Appraise market data to research target customers and foster a marketing orientation across the organization.
Formulate and implement a marketing plan that aligns the marketing mix to reach global customers.
Skills you'll gain
- Marketing Strategy and Techniques
- Value Propositions
- Customer Analysis
- Customer Insights
- Target Audience
- Customer Relationship Building
- Customer Support
- Customer Engagement
- Marketing Communications
- Target Market
- Selling Techniques
- Marketing
- Marketing Planning
- Customer experience improvement
- Business Marketing
- Marketing Strategies
- Team Building
- Strategic Marketing
- Customer experience strategy (CX)
- Product Marketing
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March 2026
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There are 3 modules in this course
By putting customers front and center, can companies pull ahead—and stay ahead—of their rivals? Understanding who your customers are and how their needs change allows you to deliver superior value that competitors cannot easily copy. By mastering the way you communicate that value, you ensure your products and services resonate deeply and win over your target audience.
In this course, you’ll explore how to learn about your customers to better meet their needs and use customer knowledge to deliver additional value. You’ll find out how to build a customer-focused team and foster a marketing orientation that shifts your mindset from selling products to solving problems. Finally, you’ll develop the skills to research and identify target customers, develop a marketing strategy, and implement a marketing plan that effectively reaches both local and global customers.
Only by putting customers front and center can companies pull ahead—and stay ahead—of their rivals. Learn how to identify your key customers, their changing needs, and the actions you can take to improve their experience.
What's included
4 videos18 readings1 assignment
4 videos•Total 9 minutes
- Train Your Team to Put Customers First•2 minutes
- Delight Customers with Personalized Experiences•3 minutes
- Create Good Friction for Customers•2 minutes
- Personalization Done Right•3 minutes
18 readings•Total 180 minutes
- Compete with Customer Focus•10 minutes
- What is customer focus?•10 minutes
- Why customer focus matters•10 minutes
- Make every role customer-centric•10 minutes
- Collaborate across functions•10 minutes
- Learn About Your Customers•10 minutes
- Take customers’ point of view•10 minutes
- Tap into customers’ wants and needs•10 minutes
- Apply insights to create value•10 minutes
- Anticipate changing needs•10 minutes
- Enhance the Customer Journey •10 minutes
- Gain insights into your customers' journeys•10 minutes
- Create meaningful touchpoints •10 minutes
- Earn trust and loyalty•10 minutes
- Win Customers with AI-Driven Insights •10 minutes
- Harness data for richer insights•10 minutes
- Supercharge personalization•10 minutes
- Guard against common pitfalls•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Customer Focus Assessment•30 minutes
No matter how good your product or service is, the way you communicate with your customers can determine its success. Discover the forces that influence the purchasing habits of your customers and learn how to win them over with an effective marketing strategy.
What's included
16 videos35 readings1 assignment
16 videos•Total 44 minutes
- A Drop of Water•3 minutes
- Conduct First-Hand Market Research•3 minutes
- Simplify Customer Metrics•3 minutes
- Change the Product, Not the Customer•3 minutes
- Word of Mouth•3 minutes
- Don’t Be Afraid to Rethink Your Services•3 minutes
- Build More Than a Loyalty Program•3 minutes
- Use Inclusive Marketing to Reach New Customers•2 minutes
- Cashing In on Category Creation•3 minutes
- How Google Markets with Emotion•3 minutes
- Find Your Ideal Market•3 minutes
- Refresh Your Marketing to Drive Sales•3 minutes
- Define Success Up Front•2 minutes
- Emerging Markets•1 minute
- Adapt to the Market•3 minutes
- Building a Global Brand •3 minutes
35 readings•Total 350 minutes
- Cultivate a Marketing Orientation•10 minutes
- Marketing is everyone’s job*•10 minutes
- Marketing’s multiple roles•10 minutes
- Internal vs. external marketing•10 minutes
- Push vs. pull*•10 minutes
- Develop your team’s marketing orientation•10 minutes
- Understand Your Customer•10 minutes
- Research your customer*•10 minutes
- Understand needs•10 minutes
- What influences buying?•10 minutes
- How companies buy*•10 minutes
- The buying journey*•10 minutes
- Create a Marketing Strategy•10 minutes
- Elements of a marketing strategy*•10 minutes
- Differentiate your product•10 minutes
- Identify your target customers•10 minutes
- Decide the marketing mix•10 minutes
- Analyze the competition*•10 minutes
- Focus on communication•10 minutes
- Product life cycles•10 minutes
- Create and Implement a Marketing Plan•10 minutes
- Write a marketing plan*•10 minutes
- Establish the objective*•10 minutes
- Describe the opportunity*•10 minutes
- Detail your strategy•10 minutes
- Provide financial information•10 minutes
- Add a conclusion•10 minutes
- Implement your marketing plan*•10 minutes
- Global Marketing•10 minutes
- Is the opportunity right?•10 minutes
- Develop a cross-border strategy•10 minutes
- Evaluate your product•10 minutes
- Set the price*•10 minutes
- Choose distribution*•10 minutes
- Tailor promotion*•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Marketing Essentials Assessment•30 minutes
What's included
2 assignments
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Course-End Assessments•30 minutes
- Course-End Projects•30 minutes
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