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Customer needs
Customer needs
                         
 Understand that a business must anticipate, identify
  and meet customer needs if it is to be successful
Customer focus: Here
               
 By focusing on customers a business can
  learn:
   About niggles/weaknesses
   How customers see you in relation to your
    competitors.
   What else customers may want (new
    products and services)
   What customers do not want
   What customers would want, but don’t have
    enough money to pay for it.
Ways to achieve
         customer focus
               
 Train staff to be clear that customers are the purpose
  of the business’ success.
 Regularly check customer views
 Get senior management to act as a ‘mystery shopper’
 Set targets that focus on customer satisfaction
TASK
                       
 Canbury School is a business.
 What can a school do to become more customer focused?

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1. customer needs

  • 2. Customer needs   Understand that a business must anticipate, identify and meet customer needs if it is to be successful
  • 3. Customer focus: Here   By focusing on customers a business can learn:  About niggles/weaknesses  How customers see you in relation to your competitors.  What else customers may want (new products and services)  What customers do not want  What customers would want, but don’t have enough money to pay for it.
  • 4. Ways to achieve customer focus   Train staff to be clear that customers are the purpose of the business’ success.  Regularly check customer views  Get senior management to act as a ‘mystery shopper’  Set targets that focus on customer satisfaction
  • 5. TASK   Canbury School is a business.  What can a school do to become more customer focused?