Understanding Customers
Outside-In
To be successful, you need to see as your customers see. Organizations must stop the “navel-gazing” and seek first to understand customers before expecting to be understood by them.
How you see your products and services is very different than how your customers see them.
Len Blackstone shows specific methodologies you can use to identify customers’ unmet needs.
Here are some audience comments about Len’s presentation at a national conference in Philadelphia in 2010:
- Fantastic! Very inspiring case studies and stories.
- The depth of information and engaging style – excellent.
- A thought leader, truly insightful and helpful; great content in presentation including case studies
- Thanks for saving the conference for me!
- Wow!

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