Customer-Centric and AI-Driven: What Modern Customer Management Requires Today

You bought the AI tool. Nobody used it. Now it's a $200/month reminder that AI didn't work for you. But here's the real problem — it wasn't the tool. It was the order of operations. Most businesses

You bought the AI tool. Nobody used it. Now it's a $200/month reminder that AI didn't work for you.

But here's the real problem — it wasn't the tool. It was the order of operations.

Most businesses buy AI first, then try to find a problem for it to solve. That's backwards. And it's exactly what vendors and overhyped consultants want you to do.

A recent piece from Lucerne University's marketing research center made something click for me. The businesses winning with AI aren't starting with technology. They're starting with one specific customer friction point — something measurable, something that costs them time or money every single week — and then asking which AI solves that exact problem.

That's a completely different conversation than "which AI tool should we buy."

Here's your one action this week: Write down the single most repetitive customer-facing task your team does manually. Answering the same questions. Following up on quotes. Sorting inquiries. Just one. That's your starting point — not a software demo.

One problem. One solution. Measurable result in 30 days. That's the only AI strategy worth talking about right now.

What's the one customer task your team repeats every single day that you wish would just handle itself?

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Original Source

Dominik Georgi, Head of the Competence Center for Marketing Management and professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.