Navigating, Now.
Staying close to customers has never been more important.
Customer, Now.
Nothing is changing faster than ourselves.
Staying close to customers has never been more important. Companies that thrive, even during volatility, often succeed because they invest in their customer – and they’re able to anticipate core needs, even as they evolve. So what matters to customers right now? We’re exploring lock-down, and what follows it, from the customers’ perspective.
Episode 16
Reinforcing Myself
While the pandemic has stripped away our connection to much of the physical world, we are increasingly reliant on technology as a source of connection. As a result, it’s becoming easier to tune out who and what doesn’t align with our beliefs. Technology makes us comfortable by creating virtual worlds that are a reflection of our inner selves. The result: our own customized “echo chambers.” Echo chambers limit our exposure to ideas, voices, and others’ truths. We’re a world removed from people with different beliefs than our own. This week we explored what happens when we’re forced to look outward from our in-groups and echo chambers. We didn’t have to look far to find perfect testing conditions. Read more
Episode 15
The “Sustainability” disconnect
We explore the disconnect between how people vs. companies look at our environment. Read more
Episode 14
Living in the grey
Shifting from the hope of ‘normal’ to the dread of ‘what’s next?’ Read more
Episode 13
Embracing our truths
We go deeper with customers to discover how truth requires empathy Read more
Episode 12
Being authentically inclusive
For customers, inauthentic action is worse than inaction Read more
Episode 11
Believing our excuses
What makes change stick? And why do we resist real change? Read more
Episode 10
Projecting Injustice
The intersection between racial injustice, COVID-19, and the forces of change they represent Read more
Episode 09
Energy beyond the moment
Our energy persevere is fueled by something unexpected, and it’s in short supply Read more
Episode 08
Habits of control
Customers offset negative feelings from the pandemic with positive feelings they can create and control for themselves Read more
Episode 07
The widening empathy gap
People are experiencing the same thing very differently Read more
Episode 06
Guilt in everything
Discovering that guilt isn’t entirely successful at keeping us in check Read more
Episode 05
Humanity in the Balance
Tapping into customers’ imagination, creativity and perspective Read more
Insight, Now.
Insight is pivoting around a new normal.
Insight leaders at the world’s biggest brands are pivoting their methodologies and approaches to navigate what’s happening now. We’re sharing best practices from our clients and our colleagues, as a way to support the industry.
The Better Why
In this fast-changing world, nothing is changing faster than ourselves – both as customers, and as brands. For insights leaders and customer activists this presents a moment of accelerated change and opportunity. Are we ready? Read more
Demand Shock
Some companies are set up to manage disruption much better than others. Read more
Healthcare, Now. What we’ve discovered about coping in a crisis
C Space engages with hundreds of thousands of people – patients, caregivers and physicians – every day. They’re generating insights that are helping our clients understand how COVID-19 is affecting lives, informing and de-risking decisions about how to address those needs. Healthcare as we know it will be forever changed. Helping our healthcare clients anticipate future opportunities and mitigate risk has never been more urgent. Read more
The Crisis Playbook, Part 1: Business Tactics During, and After, COVID-19
How we work needs a radical rethink. To support our clients, we’re building a best practice playbook for businesses: how to navigate now and plan for what’s next. Read more
Customer Inside: A Practitioners Guide to Online Communities
Twenty years ago, when C Space pioneered online communities the landscape was unrecognizable from today. We partnered with the Market Research Society (MRS) and 130 client side practitioners to explore & understand how to get the most out of online communities (and the agencies that run them). Read more
Work, Now.
How we are pivoting with our clients.
How we are working with the world’s leading brands to keep them closer than ever to customers.
Customer, Now.
Nothing is changing faster than ourselves.What’s happening with customers right now and what should business do next?
Suddenly, these two questions became a lot more complicated; the answers require us to get beyond the numbers, headlines and hyperbole in search of simple, scalable human truths.
That’s why we’ve launched Customer, Now., a project to document, explore and understand lock-down, and what follows it, from the customers’ perspective.
Through our global communities, we are tapping into the human truths behind customers’ experiences in real-time; exploring their inner worlds more deeply, and creating fresh, generative insights and implications to share with our community.
There’s one guiding insight that’s immediately become clear: in this fast-changing situation, nothing is changing faster than ourselves. This is what we’re exploring through Customer, Now.
It’s not uniform change, nor is it constant. It’s an evolution of our inner lives, our relationships, family, friends, home, health, work and, inevitably, our customer behaviour. And it’s more rapid than we’ve ever seen before.
Through Customer, Now. we'll deliver to our community an insight, and its implications, every week. With this work, we have one simple aim: to drive a brighter, more progressive, customer-inspired version of tomorrow.
Explore the episodes:
01: Community as essential as food
02: The opposite is also true
03: Survival of the Simplest
04: We before me
05: Humanity in the balance
06: Guilt in Everything
07: The widening empathy gap
08: Habits of control
09: Energy beyond the moment
10: Projecting injustice
11: Believing our excuses
12: Being authentically inclusive
13: Embracing our Truths
14: Living in the grey
15: The “Sustainability” disconnect
16. Reinforcing Myself