Customer Experience Strategy

Customer Journey Mapping Services

Map every touchpoint your customer actually takes, not just the ones you assume they do. An on-site workshop with your cross-functional team, informed by real customer feedback and mystery-shop data. Facilitated by a regional CX Specialist who knows your sector.

30+ years improving CX
100s of journey mapping sessions a year
CX Specialists across UK and Ireland

The gap

Is the journey on your whiteboard the one your customers actually take?

Most businesses already have a sense of what their customer journey looks like. The version their customers actually experience is often a different story.

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The journey on paper

The journey your team would describe is the one your processes were designed for. Linear, logical, sequential. It’s how the business works, not how customers experience it.
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The journey customers actually feel

At every stage the customer feels something, reassured, rushed, frustrated, looked after, and your team feels something delivering it. The moments that score lowest are where the experience breaks down, and those are exactly where improvement and training should focus.
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The gaps nobody owns

The biggest gaps are usually between departments. Marketing assumes sales picks it up. Sales assumes service does. The customer feels the seams everyone else can’t see.

The basics

What is customer journey mapping?

Customer journey mapping is a visual representation of every step a customer takes when interacting with your business. It captures the touchpoints they pass through, the emotions they feel at each stage, and the friction points where they get stuck or drop out.

At insight6, journey mapping is delivered as a facilitated workshop with your cross-functional team. We bring customer feedback and mystery-shop data into the room, so the friction points you map are grounded in what your customers actually experience. The output is a prioritised set of interventions with owners, timings, and measurement built in.

  • Facilitated workshop with your cross-functional team
  • Grounded in customer feedback and mystery-shop data
  • Action plan with clear next steps
CX specialist at her desk reviewing the customer journey map board

Sample journey map output 5 stages, emotional curve, friction flags

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Awareness

Search, social, recommendation

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Consideration

Website, reviews, comparison

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Purchase

Checkout, in-store, decision

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Post-Purchase

Onboarding, support, follow-up

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Advocacy

Reviews, referrals, repeat

Emotion
Friction: enquiry response time Friction: handover to onboarding

Why insight6

Six reasons UK businesses choose insight6 for customer journey mapping

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A clear action plan, not a wall poster

The output of a journey mapping workshop isn’t a finished diagram for the office wall. It’s a prioritised set of actions your team can implement straight away, with the operational changes ranked by impact.
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Surface the problems your team has been blind to

Every workshop we run produces at least one moment in the first twenty minutes where someone realises the customer experiences something their job description has never exposed them to. The accountant who’s never been kept on hold by their own team. The manager who hasn’t tried to find their own car park. Those are the problems your team can actually start solving.
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Cross-functional, by design

We bring accounts, operations, sales, and front-of-house into the same room. Most journey mapping happens in marketing or CX alone, which misses the departments where the friction actually sits. The workshop is built around the assumption that customer experience problems live between teams, not within them.
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Real differences, real personas

Different customers experience the same business differently. A first-time customer’s journey isn’t the same as a returning customer’s. Our workshops build personas so the map reflects what each type of customer actually goes through.
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Independent facilitation that keeps the room honest

A regional CX Specialist facilitates the session. They ask the questions internal teams stop asking, surface the assumptions people don’t realise they’re making, and keep the conversation focused on the customer rather than the org chart.
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Sector experience that already understands your world

Your CX Specialist already knows your sector: retail, hospitality, healthcare, higher education, professional services, automotive. The workshops start from a place that understands your business, not a place that needs to learn it.
Client impact

“Every customer journey mapping session I have facilitated results in at least one person in the first 20 minutes having a lightbulb moment…

Graham Hill, CX Director, Buckinghamshire
HOW IT WORKS

How customer journey mapping works at insight6

Three steps from first call to final intervention plan.
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Pre-workshop discovery

An initial conversation to understand your business, and what you’re hoping to change from the workshop. This shapes the focus, the participants, and the questions the workshop will explore.
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Customer journey mapping workshop

Your cross-functional team in one room (or online, if that works better for your business), facilitated by your regional CX Specialist. The workshop maps your customer’s actual journey from first awareness through to ongoing relationship, with friction points and opportunities identified at each stage.
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Map + plan

Your finished journey map plus a prioritised set of actions your team can implement straight away, with owners and timings agreed. Delivered shortly after the workshop.
Pricing

What does a customer journey mapping workshop cost?

Every customer journey mapping engagement is scoped to your sector, the number of journeys you want mapped, and whether persona development is included. Pricing follows the same logic. A short call with your local CX Specialist is the quickest way to get a tailored quote.

Discovery call 30 min
Tailored engagement proposal Within 72h
First mapping workshop Within 10 days
Backed by 30+ years of UK customer experience work.
In the past 12 months

Mystery shops delivered

UK brands served

Team members assessed
Offering constructive feedback that improves customer experience.

Sector expertise

Customer Journey Mapping built around your sector

Whether you’re mapping a retail customer journey, a patient journey, an applicant journey, or a B2B buying journey, your regional CX Specialist starts from a place that already understands your business. Our workshops are shaped around how your customers actually move through your sector.

Don’t see your sector? We’ve worked across many UK industries.

Compare

How insight6 customer service training compares

Internal journey mappinginsight6 journey mapping
Whose journey gets mappedThe journey your team expects customers to takeThe journey customers actually take, evidenced
Data inputWhat your team knows and remembersWhat your team contributes plus customer feedback brought into the workshop
FacilitationLed by someone inside the team, working with the assumptions already in the roomAn independent CX Specialist facilitates, challenges assumptions and keeps the focus on the customer
OutputsA journey mapA journey map plus a prioritised set of actions, with owners and timings
Sector benchmarkingNot typically includedAvailable through your specialist’s sector experience
Repeat measurementOnly happens when time allowsMeasurement can be built in to track behaviour change
Persona developmentOptional, depends on timeBuilt into the workshop format

Local expertise

Find your local CX Specialist

A nationwide team of CX Specialists across the UK and Ireland. Each one delivers training
in the sectors and standards in their patch.

View all CX Specialists →

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

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What is a customer journey map?

A customer journey map is a visualisation of every step a customer takes when interacting with your business, from first awareness through to post-purchase support. It surfaces the touchpoints, emotions and friction points along the way so you can prioritise the fixes that actually move the numbers.
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How is journey mapping different from a sales funnel?

A sales funnel describes the stages your team uses to convert a lead. A journey map describes the experience the customer is actually having, including the bits your funnel doesn't see, such as research, comparison, post-purchase, support and renewal. The two complement each other, but only the journey map shows where you're losing customers in the gaps.
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How long does a mapping engagement take?

A 30-minute discovery call, then an on-site workshop with your cross-functional team, and a visual journey map and prioritised intervention plan delivered within two weeks of the workshop.
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Do you run workshops or do it for us?

We facilitate. The map is built with your cross-functional team in the room, because the people who own the touchpoints need to own the fixes. Your CX Specialist brings the method, the mystery-shop data and sector benchmarks; your team brings the operational reality. The output belongs to you.
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What data do you use in the workshop?

Real mystery-shop interactions, verbatim customer quotes, and any existing customer feedback or analytics you already have. If you don't have mystery-shop data yet, we can run a small pilot before the workshop so the friction points you map are evidenced, not assumed.
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How does this work alongside our CRM and existing CX tools?

The journey map is method, not software. It sits above your CRM, survey platform and helpdesk and tells you which of those tools are working hard and which are gaps. The intervention plan we deliver typically includes specific recommendations on where your existing stack needs reconfiguring, replacing or extending.
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Do you cover B2B as well as B2C journeys?

Yes. The method works across both. B2B journeys typically have longer cycles, more stakeholders and more handovers between teams, all of which the workshop format handles well. Sector-specific examples include professional services, B2B services, automotive trade and higher-education recruitment.
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What deliverables do we get at the end?

A visual journey map showing every touchpoint, the emotional curve, and the friction points along it. A prioritised intervention plan with each action owned, scoped and timelined. Sector-relevant personas built in the workshop. And a measurement plan so you can prove the fixes held with repeat mystery shopping.

Next step

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Tell us a little about your business and your local CX Specialist will aim to be in touch within one working day to scope a journey mapping workshop that fits your sector, channels and team.

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