Customer Experience (CX)
Maturity ModelCX Maturity Model 2022

Table of Contents
Introduction
Tools for transforming federal service delivery

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CoE’s CX maturity model

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The maturity journey
Indicators for each level of CX maturity

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Locating your agency’s maturity level
Agencies at the reactive level
Agencies at the tactical level
Agencies at the strategic level
Agencies at the foundational level
Agencies at the customer-centric level

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Tactics to get to the next level
How to mature from reactive to tactical
How to mature from tactical to strategic
How to mature from strategic to foundational
How to mature from foundational to customer-centric

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Introduction
A recent executive order on transforming customer experience and service delivery holds 17 agencies accountable for 36
speciﬁc commitments, but it is a call to action for the entire federal government.
“Our government must recommit to being ‘of the people, by the people, [and] for thepeople’ in order to solve the complex 21st century challenges our nation faces.
Government must be held accountable for designing and delivering services with a focus
on the actual experience of the people whom it is meant to serve.”— The Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to
Rebuild Trust in Government

The CX CoE has created this framework to help organizations transform their federal service delivery. It is designed to provide
organizations with a deeper understanding of how to measure their maturity level, and tactics to get to the next level.
Although the CX Maturity Model does not represent or constitute oﬃcial guidance, it can help you take your organization’s CX
Maturity to the next level. Tailor the model to meet your agency’s speciﬁc needs.

How prepared is your agency to translate the executive order into meaningful action?
The CX CoE has created this model to help organizations transform their federal service delivery. It is designed to provide
organizations with a deeper understanding of how to measure your agency’s maturity level, and how to get to the next level.

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CoE’s CX maturity model● A customer’s experience is the sum total of their interactions with an organization and its services.
● Customer experience (CX) work is interdisciplinary. Creating exceptional services requires design, development andorganizational expertise.
● CX work is wide-ranging, often encompassing the experiences of both internal and external customers. It goes beyond
digital services and extends into supporting policies, internal processes and governance structures of the service.
● For example, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) eﬀorts to reduce wait times for airport passengers may requireredesigning the experiences of TSA screening oﬃcers which may include process improvements as well as digitalsolutions.
● Central to improving or introducing a service is having well-deﬁned customers, and a clear understanding of their needs.
The well-deﬁned needs of well-deﬁned customers should be at the center of any eﬀort to introduce or improve a service,
but not all agencies are prepared to do that. Some lack the necessary CX maturity. They don’t have the expertise or theylack the structure and ﬂexibility required.
Each federal agency ﬁts into one of these ﬁve levels of CX maturity:● Reactive: Agencies with a rudimentary understanding of their customers● Tactical: Agencies who have had occasional forays into customer research, usually as part of larger IT projects● Strategic: Agencies with enough customer-related initiatives to warrant aligning research and analysis eﬀorts● Foundational: Agencies whose CX eﬀorts are coordinated and ﬁt very intentionally within well-articulated strategies● Customer-centric: Agencies structured primarily around the measurable satisfaction of their customers’ needs

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The ﬁve levels work together, and agencies can choose to use them:
AS A MODEL:● The levels are a progression towards an ideal state. Each level requires
the full realization of the levels below it.
● All agencies say they are customer-centric (especially after the releaseof the Customer Experience and Service Delivery executive order), butthere is no skipping levels in this model.
● An agency at the strategic level can only get to the customer-centric
level after they have coordinated their CX eﬀorts as part ofwell-articulated strategies (a foundational-level activity.)
AS A DIAGNOSTIC TOOL:● The levels are a way to deﬁne an agency’s maturity level.
● Levels are based on their current capabilities and activities.
● Once located, the agency can consider the tactics appropriate for moving to the next level of maturity.

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How agencies at diﬀerent levels of CX maturity deliver digital services

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Indicators for CX maturity levels

HCD Tools

HCD Practices
Access tocustomers

Voice of the
Customer (VoC)
CX in job
descriptions
Departmentswith CX expertise

Reactive

Tactical

Strategic

Foundational

Customer-CentricNone

Occasionally used bycontractors

Standardized, toolkits
exist

Unavoidable,
integrated with
development

Ubiquitous

None

None

Introduced, supported
by contractors

Agency committed to aset of practices

Ubiquitous

Severely limited

LimitedAvailable mostly
through CX or UX
projects

Regularly scheduledinteractions,project-based deep
research

Interactions are
essential to all or more
operations

Call center is the only
potential VoC source

Contact center is only
potential VoC source

VoC tools in use, but
analysis is not
well-coordinated

Dedicated CX roles,
elements also found in
non-CX roles

Sophisticated VoC
tools, required formany operations

Nonexistent

Mentions of customers
or UX

Some roles tied to CX
performance

Dedicated CX roles,
elements also found in
non-CX roles

CX executives andmanagers

None

None

Incidental or none

One or two

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Additional essential CX elements
To help build improved customer experiences for all people, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) are essential.
These principles and customer experience are inextricably linked; and because in government, there is no single “target
customer”, these principles are even more important. Furthermore, using DEIA principles should not just be aboutaccommodating or retroﬁtting but it should be about using these lenses at the outset to create the best possible experience forall the people an organization is meant to serve. Thus, regardless of the level of their CX maturity, all organizations should also
optimize the following essential elements of customer experience, as described below.

Diversity
Customer experiences should be free of institutional bias.
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What this means for deﬁning customers: The deﬁnition of customer types needs to consider the many communities,
identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, cultures, and beliefs of the American people. Also, opportunities toreﬂect underserved communities should be aggressively pursued.

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What this means for CX teams: Teams are made up of people from diﬀerent communities, identities, races, ethnicities,
backgrounds, abilities and cultures.

EquityThe organization should treat all customers fairly, justly and impartially.
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What this means for customer research: During interviews, researchers need to identify potential barriers customers
may encounter when they interact with the organization and its services.

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What this means for CX teams: Team organizers need to support the widest possible participation in CX initiatives.

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Inclusion
The organization should help everyone feel welcome to become their customers.
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What this means for CX activities: The quality of interactions between the organization and its customers is assessed
regularly.

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What this means for CX teams: Mechanisms are in place to regularly gauge interactions between team members andother ways of measuring team health.

Accessibility
The widest possible audience should be able to experience the organization’s services to the fullest. It is important to
be 508-compliant, use plain language, ensure language access, and strive for excellence.
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What this means for CX activities: The organization ensures that people with disabilities can independently access,and interact with, every outward-facing artifact and digital channel.

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What this means for CX teams: Teams accommodate members, and customers, with disabilities and those who speak
diﬀerent languages, so they can fully participate in all activities. The 18F accessibility guide provides best practices.

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The maturity journey“[Agencies] often view customer experience as a trade-oﬀ, and when the budget season rolls around,customer experience initiatives starve. Agencies instead invest in outcomes where they see a clear link tovalue, such as cost reduction.”—McKinsey & Company● Putting federal customers at the center of service development is a relatively new concept, so all agencies are at
the reactive level initially. Reactive agencies are the ones who tend to deﬁne customer needs based on piecemeal data
and the subjective opinions of subject matter experts and stakeholders, and some do not consider their customers.
Evolving software development practices over the last 20 years have increasingly involved people who will use thesoftware that is developed. It leads to better solutions and deeper adoption.
● Agencies who have matured to the next level in the model, the tactical level, occasionally or regularly conduct
user research as part of their software projects.
● Maturing from the tactical to the strategic level of the model doesn’t happen accidentally. An agency has toharvest data from unrelated software projects and learn how to analyze, organize and utilize the research.
● Agencies ascend to the strategic level when they use research to understand their customers’ needs and to
guide the development of more eﬀective services.
● Agencies that have matured to the foundational level coordinate their CX eﬀorts to fulﬁll well-articulated
strategies. Every part of that is diﬃcult to do at a federal agency. Making CX work a priority is particularly hard.

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● In order to mature from the foundational level to the customer-centric level, an agency would have to give itself
over completely to CX. Currently, many agencies haven’t done the restructuring necessary to centralize their operations
around customers and their needs. Such structuring could result in a federal agency unlike many others.
● The customer-centric level of the maturity model is aspirational today. Its purpose in the CX maturity model is todeﬁne an ideal state that agencies can strive for, even if they might never attain it.
● Designing and delivering services that satisfy the well-deﬁned needs of well-deﬁned customers is hard. Maturing
CX capabilities takes time, but the journey towards customer centricity can be as valuable to an agency as arriving at thedestination.

Identify your agency’s maturity level
One way we determine an agency’s CX maturity level is to look at how well they support these core functions:1● Measurement: Collecting and analyzing data for customer-experience-related outcomes● Governance and strategy: Institutionalizing CX by holding agency leaders accountable, deﬁning processes and aligningbusiness initiatives● Culture and organization: Hiring CX experts and supporting human-centered design (HCD) tools and processes● Customer understanding: Collecting qualitative and quantitative data about customer needs and customer journeys● Service design and improvement: Fixing broken services and introducing new ones, always with customers and theirneeds at the center of development
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OMB Circular No. A-11, Section 280, “Managing Customer Experience and Improving Service Delivery,”https://www.performance.gov/cx/assets/ﬁles/a11_2020_sec280.pdf, retrieved March 1, 2022.

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Agencies at the Reactive Level

These agencies tend to react to customer problems
in silos and are less likely to make decisions basedon customer feedback and data.
● Out-dated systems and high tech debt severely
limit agency’s ability to deliver digital services.
● Communication is one-way.

Support for CX Core Functions at the Reactive Level:● Measurement: There are no standards for describing or tracking CX-related outcomes.
● Governance and strategy: CX is seldom or ever a factor in agency strategic or operational planning.
● Culture and organization: There is no CX expertise on staﬀ, contractors with CX or HCD experience are few or none .
No HCD tools or processes. Organization confuses CX with customer service.
● Customer understanding: Few or no agency resources for collecting or analyzing data about customer needs.
● Service design and improvement: Projects for introducing or improving services are treated as technology challenges
exclusively.
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Your agency might be at the reactive level if any of the following sounds familiar:
Check any statement that applies to your organization:

You are more wet than agile: Waterfall methodology dominates your agency’s software projects, with traditional
requirements gathering front-loaded and focused on system features rather than on the needs of the people whoneed to use the software.
Your agency doesn’t value design: Even when agile practices have made their way into an agency, design isoften narrowly and superﬁcially deﬁned. By focusing solely on the visual, agencies and their contractors devalue
design and minimize its impact. And they use the terms HCD, UX, UI and CX interchangeably, if used at all.
Your agency doesn’t invest in professional design: Developers or business analysts pull double duty as
designers and the design process entails stealing assets from other projects or adapting a framework with little
understanding of how to ﬁt it to the unique needs of the project.
Your agency doesn’t know how to test solutions with users: Often, user acceptance testing (UAT) is scheduled
in situations where user research or usability testing would have been more appropriate. (The purpose of UAT is to
conﬁrm that software has satisﬁed business requirements, while user research is conducted to understand thepeople who will use the software, and usability testing is a way to gauge if people will use software as its designers
intended).
You don’t know your customers: Your agency hasn’t invested in user research, nor mechanisms to systematicallyhear the voices of their customers, so if staﬀ and leadership talk about customers at all, they base theirconversations on assumptions and personal experience.

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Agencies at the Tactical Level

These agencies’ services often feel disjointed tocustomers. Customer data and insights inform thedesign decisions of some individual touchpoints.
● The agency occasionally circumvents system
limitations to launch some rudimentary digital
services.
● Access to customers is limited.

Support for CX core functions at the Tactical Level:● Measurement
There are few or none agency standards for describing or tracking CX-related outcomes. Measurement tools orprocesses are sometimes brought in by contractors.
● Governance and strategy
Customers are sometimes a factor in agency planning, but there is no formalized approach to CX.
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● Culture and organization
There is no CX expertise on staﬀ, some contractors with CX or HCD experience. HCD tools or processes are sometimes
brought in by contractors.
● Customer understanding
There is a limited history of collecting or analyzing data about customer needs.
● Service design and improvement
Projects for introducing or improving services are treated as technology challenges exclusively.

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Your agency might be at the tactical level if any of the following sounds familiar:
Check any statement that applies to your organization:

You can’t build on success: A successful customer-related project in one part of your agency has no impact on
any other parts of the agency. Every project has to make its way through the organization as if nothing like it has
ever been tried before.
Your agency doesn’t learn: HCD techniques that were brought in by contractors, including interviewing methods,
co-design methods, and testing designs with users, leave with the contractors when the project is completed. In
some cases, personas or other CX artifacts may linger, but their value is largely misunderstood.
You may avoid some hurdles, but your agency seldom removes them: Like whispered urban legends passed
from generation to generation, undocumented agency policies that restrict meaningful conversations withcustomers are hard to dispell. Project requirements focused solely on system capabilities are another common
hurdle, as is UAT misused as usability testing.
Your leadership doesn’t walk their talk: Press releases loaded with CX buzzwords are cheap, but delivering
customer-centric services will require a serious commitment by your agency. If your leaders evangelize about
making things “intuitive” and “user friendly,” but expect CX capabilities to mature without direct investment, they’rejust talking the talk.
You know your customers … but just a little: Maybe you collected piecemeal user research from past projects or
you unearthed a few streams of customer data trickling through your agency, but those data points are diﬃcult toalign. Analysis is rudimentary and unsophisticated.

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Agencies at the Strategic Level
Customer research informs decisions at theseagencies. An agency at this level coordinates eﬀorts tooptimize multiple touchpoints with customers, rather
than improving one at a time.
● The agency has paid back tech debt by replacing
quick, but temporary solutions with longer termsolutions that support more meaningful interactions
with customers.

Support for CX core functions at the Strategic Level● Measurement: The agency maintains standards for describing and tracking CX outcomes.
● Governance and strategy: Customer needs are a factor in agency strategic and/or operational planning.
● Culture and organization: Some CX and/or HCD expertise on staﬀ and there are contractors with CX or HCD
experience. HCD tools or processes exist somewhere in the organization.
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● Customer understanding: The agency has a way to collect and analyze customer needs and the information is shared,
though not necessarily consistently across the organization.
● Service design and improvement: A group or groups within the agency has at least discussed an HCD approach to
introducing or improving services.

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Your agency might be at the strategic level if any of the following sounds familiar:
Check any statement that applies to your organization:
Your agency overestimates the value of policy: Customer experiences improve when you deliver better services. Action, notwords, are at the heart of CX. To mature, agencies must focus on building and ﬁxing things that matter to the people who dependon them.
Your agency mistakes design theater for design: Some experience design tools have made their way into federal agencies, but
their value is often diminished by how they are being used. Personas and journey maps are two examples of this:Personas: Personas are representations of the diﬀerent types of people who use an agency’s services. Personas can fostera team’s empathy for their customers, but more importantly, the process of creating them is a powerful way to explore userneeds. Unfortunately, personas have become just another item on project checklists.
Journey maps: A journey map displays how a person interacts with a service. It describes each stage of the interaction andincludes any obstacles that the person may encounter along the way. The popularity of journey maps has spiked over thelast couple of years, largely because they tend to be beautiful and project teams like to hang them on walls to show them oﬀ
to stakeholders. What often gets lost is their true value. When a project team does the hard work of researching andanalyzing the information needed to build a journey map, they gain deep insight into customer touchpoints, system strengths
and weaknesses and the eﬃcacy of potential solutions. The journey of creating a journey map is more important than thedeliverable that comes out of it.
Your agency’s CX eﬀorts are trapped in an oﬃce: If an organization has customers, then everyone in the organization is
responsible for some aspect of the customer experience. Because of this, it’s unrealistic to expect that centralizing the
responsibility in a CX or CIO oﬃce will improve customer experiences. Having a single oﬃce lead all CX initiatives makes it too
easy for other oﬃces to minimize their own commitments.
New CX money pays for contracts, not internal growth: It is a major accomplishment when an agency commits funds for a
CX initiative. And it is a major missed opportunity when that money pays for expertise that disappears when the project is over.
Increasing internal CX capabilities is not a training challenge primarily. The challenge is doing the hard work of bringing CX
responsibilities in-house.
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Agencies at the Foundational Level
High impact experiences feel cohesive. Customer
data and insights are often used to drive decisions
and actions.
● The agency provides customers with access torobust digital services across multiple channels.

Support for CX core functions at the Foundational Level:● Measurement: Metrics for CX outcomes are collected and analyzed throughout the agency. Measurement activities areat a high quality and timed appropriately.
● Governance and strategy: Customer needs are a factor in agency strategic and/or operational planning.
● Culture and organization: CX and HCD experts on staﬀ design solutions and oversee contractors’ CX work.
Standardized HCD tools and processes are available for all projects.
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● Customer understanding: Project teams research customer needs. Research data and analysis is accessible across theorganization.
● Service design and improvement: The agency designs, funds and launches service design projects that satisfy thewell-deﬁned needs of well-deﬁned customers in measurable ways.

Your agency might be at the Foundational Level if any of the following sounds familiar:
Check any statement that applies to your organization:

Your agency develops robust digital services: Customers can experience the agency’s services via the channels
that are most convenient to them.
Your agency uses what they have: They hack or adjust existing structures as needed to deliver digital services fortheir most important customers.

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Agencies at the Customer-Centric Level● The agency’s highest impact services intertwine
digital and non-digital aspects.
● Interactions occur when and how it is mostconvenient for the agency’s customers.
● Systems and channels are built around theneeds of the customer.

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Most agencies are still striving to reach this level. If an agency is at this level, this is how they would support
CX core functions:● Measurement: The agency is structured to optimize customer data collection. Key customer data is also collectedindependently of projects.
● Governance and strategy: All agency strategy is ﬁltered through a CX lens. Optimizing delivery to customers is a driving
force for operational planning.
● Culture and organization: All staﬀ, regardless of role, participate in some way in the design of customer experiences.
CX professionals hold leadership positions. The agency is highly selective in its use of outside CX expertise. HCD tools
and processes are commonly understood and used by agency staﬀ.
● Customer understanding: All projects are traceable to agency customers and their needs. A store of key customer data
is analyzed and maintained.
● Service design and improvement: The agency delivers measurably exceptional digital services.
To become truly customer-centric, an agency has to commit to a much more radical approach, one that fundamentally,
irrecoverably alters it. It would need to be restructured around the well-deﬁned needs of well-deﬁned customers in order todeliver exceptional services that intertwine digital and non-digital aspects. The performance of each service would bemonitored and measured continuously. Customer data would guide further development.

Tactics to get to the Next Level
An agency must align their eﬀorts with a realistic analysis of their current maturity level. This means that substantial moves likenaming a Chief Experience Oﬃcer (CXO) and establishing a CXO oﬃce are largely wasted at agencies that aren’t ready for it.
Hiring a CXO at a reactive or tactical agency would be like building a dam where there is no water.
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How to Mature from Reactive to Tactical
1. Aggressively connect with customers. If a reactive agency wants to move up to the next level of CX maturity, the mostimportant thing they can do is to expose more of their staﬀ to more of their customers. Direct contact with customers isessential for understanding their needs and gauging how well your agency is meeting them. There are several reasonsfederal agencies (not just ones in the reactive category) resist interviewing the people who use their services:○ They think user research is illegal: They believe, incorrectly, that the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) forbids it.
(In fact, PRA speciﬁcally allows observing and interviewing customers.)○ They think it will make them look bad: Some feel that investing in research implies that they don’t already know
their customers. They also worry about the impact of negative customer feedback circulating within theirorganizations. (In both cases, avoiding the data won’t make the problems go away.)○ They have limited resources: Some are worried that they won’t be able to respond to the problems that arereported --- a valid concern. The primary focus of foundational research is on understanding the people that anagency serves, not addressing immediate needs. (Immediate needs are usually part of the data that getscollected, but needs should be analyzed for underlying issues and grouped with similar issues across theorganization.)
2. Deﬁne customers based on conversations with staﬀ from all levels of the agency. In agencies with more mature CX
capabilities, these discussions are informed by extensive research and can result in major cross-departmental initiatives.
But even without hard data, conversations can still have a positive eﬀect on your agency’s culture. The deﬁnitions thatcome out of it can be validated (or challenged) with research undertaken later, as the agency matures.
3. Mine call center data for customer experience insights. Some federal agencies have transformed their call centers
into multi-channel contact centers, installed customer relationship management (CRM) systems and experimented with
artiﬁcial intelligence. But others have left their call centers relatively unchanged over the years. The primary goal of callcenters is to help the people who need agency services. With minimal investment, they can also be a source for robust
and timely information about customer needs.
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4. Leverage front-line staﬀ members. If your agency has customers, then somebody is dealing with them on a regularbasis. Their insights can be valuable and should be collected, collated and reported out to the rest of your organization.
5. Tie contract deliverables to customer satisfaction. Some of the largest government contractors are only now
expanding their CX capabilities, but whatever little progress they’ve made is likely to be more than a reactive agency has
been able to accomplish. Agencies can better leverage government contractors by adding rudimentary customer
satisfaction requirements to statements of work and performance work statements, especially for projects that will resultin public-facing digital products or services.

How to Mature from Tactical to Strategic
1. Leverage contractors to actively build CX capabilities. Agencies that may not be ready to staﬀ up with CX
professionals can team their people with contractors for projects that include HCD activities. When appropriate for thesekinds of tasks, contracts should include explicit language around training agency staﬀ to be able to run similar activities
after the contract is complete. Also, agencies with funding for voice of the customer tools (on-site chat, oﬀ-site surveys,etc.) should consider training staﬀ to support them rather than paying a vendor.
2. Operationalize contact with customers. This can mean allowing staﬀ to listen to incoming contact center calls orsomething more aggressive like sharing video from the user research of ongoing projects. In all cases, providing
consistent exposure to customers, on the same day and time every week or month, is a key for maturing an agency.
3. Share. If an agency hasn’t matured enough to coordinate customer experience eﬀorts across the organization, the next
best thing is to get the people doing the work to talk with those who are doing similar things.
4. Focus acquisition documentation on customer needs. It’s never too early to identify who will use the services youragency develops and what of their needs will be addressed as the result of a particular project.
5. Buy, rather than rent UX staﬀ. More and more federal agencies are hiring user experience designers, user researchersand content strategists on staﬀ to be HCD front-line workers. The eﬀort of supporting and advancing UX professionals
will force a deeper understanding of human-centered design within the organization.
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How to Mature from Strategic to Foundational
1. Develop an enterprise-level customer data strategy. It takes creativity to expand existing data streams to include
customer data. It may also lead to structural changes. For example, your agency may need to adjust its contact centers
so the data they produce better aligns with, and feeds other customer data sources within the agency. In addition to key
performance indicators (KPIs), agencies should experiment with customer performance indicators (CPIs) that measure
their success delivering on customers’ desired outcomes.
2. Operationalize HCD. Build and coordinate design systems, based on the U.S. Web Design System, for customer- andemployee-facing digital services. Develop internal expertise in user research and make it available across the enterprise.
3. Make CX count. Include hard data goals about customer satisfaction in the performance plans of non-CX professionals,
especially leadership.
4. Use the CXO primarily as a facilitator. Introduce a Customer Experience Oﬃcer (or adjust the role if it already exists) to
support, but not lead initiatives across the agency. Avoid the urge to make their oﬃce responsible for the agency’s
success with customers; make departments responsible for their own CX success or failure.
5. Champion service design acquisitions. Service design is a holistic way of organizing people, infrastructure,communication and material components to optimize customer experiences. Historically, the diﬃculty of funding projects
that intertwine physical and digital elements severely limited the number of U.S. federal government service design
initiatives. But the reward for the agencies that put in the extra eﬀort can be great. Service design transforms
organizations.

How to mature from Foundational to Customer-Centric
1. Blow it up. To become customer-centric, a foundational agency would need to rebuild its internal structure, transforminga traditional, largely hierarchical organization into one built around the optimization of customer data collection andanalysis.

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2. Make service design a core capability. Build a pipeline where customer data leads to customer strategy which leads tothe continuous development of services that intertwine digital and non-digital assets.
3. Add traceability. Trace all projects that aren’t involved in service design to the satisfaction of speciﬁc customer needs.
4. Promote CX experts to leadership. Not just OCXO roles. A CIO with CX expertise, for example, would have a powerful
impact on the organization.
5. Make CX count. Build CX outcomes into all staﬀ and leadership performance plans.

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