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Customer's Compass - CANVAS
Date of last update: ____/____/____ (Decide on regularity of update needed)

Customer:

Who is the customer you’ve chosen to target? What is their profile? Can you identify an of customers who all have the same North Star need?


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North: North Star. Customer's Mission, Measures & Metrics for Success

“Customer is trying to achieve ___ because ___”

The top 3 success metrics they have for their business.


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South: Stakeholder Obstacles & Constraints

Checklist:
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Internal constraints (systems, skills, budget)

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External constraints (regulation, market conditions, etc.)

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Emotional/psych constraints (risk, bias, fear)

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Relationship constraints (trust, misalignment, stakeholder conflict)

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East: External Environment, Existing Alternatives, Emerging Opportunities

Forces changing their world (1 to 3 trends that matter to them specifically)

Existing alternatives they use today (name them, including "do nothing")

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West: Work the customer is currently doing.

What are current processes, systems, and routines?


What is working, what is not?


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Center:

If your customer is serving customers of their own, what are their end customers or consumers’ measures of success?


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Waypoints:

Identify three immediate actions you can explore as waypoints with your customer such as:
Remove one South obstacle
Partner with an assigned owner
Customer's specific due date
Interim metric aligned to North Star metrics
Validate one risky assumption
Collaborate with a designated owner
Customer's chosen due date
Measure learning progress towards North Star metrics
Explore one Innovation Waypoint bet
Team up with a selected owner
Customer's preferred due date
Experiment success leading to North Star metrics
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