Chapter 8

Governance and Accountability

Establish clear decision rights, escalation paths, and governance structures for customer-related decisions.

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Key Takeaways

  • Without clear governance, CX improvements are undone by the next budget cycle, restructure, or leadership change — structure protects progress from the volatility of organisational life.

  • Decision rights for customer-impacting choices must be explicitly assigned; when nobody owns the customer outcome end-to-end, every function optimises for itself and the customer bears the cost.

  • A CX governance structure is effective only if it has the authority to surface customer issues into strategic decisions — advisory boards with no decision-making power change nothing.

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