by Rob Jensen | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Customer Advisory Board Best Practices, Strategy & Design
When it comes to learning best practice advice towards optimally managing a customer advisory board (CAB) program, you would be hard-pressed to find a better source than Ryder. After all, the successful Fortune 500 company has been running four distinct CABs for over...
by Tatiana Falconi | Feb 16, 2021 | Blog, Create a CAB, Strategy & Design
If you are planning on launching a customer advisory board, one of the first critical steps is to gather all the information that goes into creating a business case for the board. Perhaps your management team has asked you to create a business case to justify the...
by Rob Jensen | Dec 22, 2020 | Blog, Create a CAB, Meeting Preparation, Strategy & Design
Most B2B executives acknowledge the importance of engaging with customers. After all, there is much to gain by asking your best customers their feedback to your products and services, their suggestions for additional, unfulfilled needs, their perspectives on their...
by Rob Jensen | May 14, 2019 | Blog, Strategy & Design
When creating and designing a customer advisory board (CAB) initiative, one aspect that tends to get overlooked or undervalued by CAB managers and executive sponsors is the creation of the program theme. In fact, many companies simply name their customer advisory...
by Rob Jensen | Apr 25, 2019 | Blog, Strategy & Design
With over 300 customer advisory board engagements with our clients, helping them establish and manage successful customer advisory board programs, we’ve seen a lot of what works well – as well as what doesn’t. Although we love to provide guidance in our blogs...
by Rob Jensen | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog, Roles & Responsibilities, Strategy & Design
When initiating a customer advisory board (CAB) initiative, it’s crucial to enlist the support of a strong customer advisory council executive sponsor to oversee the initiative, communicate its findings and implications to the rest of the management team, and ensure...