We are often asked how to scale up Journey Management across an organization. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer to this question, but we can provide an overview of the things that have helped our customers so far. We collected and organized these best practices across the 6 dimensions of Journey Management Maturity. For every dimension, the best practices have been ordered from low to high maturity. This guide is an ongoing work in progress; we will be adding more best practices as we encounter them.
As a disclaimer: Which of these options are best for you can depend on many factors. As a first step, our maturity scan can help you determine what maturity level you are currently at, and where you might have the biggest room to improve. If you’re looking for a more comprehensive analysis and advice that’s tailor-made for you, we can recommend any of our agency partners to help you out.

Governance
Governance indicates how effectively the organization manages, coordinates, and supports the various teams, processes, and technologies related to Journey Management. There are several best practices that can help you to ‘level up’ in this aspect of maturity.
Create a vision and roadmap for Journey Management
Implementing Journey Management starts with a clear vision of where you’d like to be, a convincing explanation of why that’s important, and a feasible roadmap of how to get there. Having these things in place helps a great deal to communicate your vision and to rally people behind it.
Set up a governance team
To start implementing TheyDo and Journey Management as a practice, someone will have to take charge. This often starts with a single trailblazer but can grow into a full governance team as the size of the implementation increases. This team is in charge of promoting Journey Management, executing the plan to implement it, and helping to remove any barriers. Often they will help establish guidelines and best practices for using TheyDo, as well as outline the roles and responsibilities of people working with Theydo. They can also provide ongoing support to teams, ensuring that any issues are addressed promptly. Moreover, a governance team can facilitate communication and collaboration among different teams, promoting the sharing of insights and experiences that can lead to more effective use of TheyDo.
Set up a Journey Management Playbook
A Playbook can serve as a clear explanation of how Journey Management works within the unique context of your organization. This ensures that everyone is on the same page and understands their roles and responsibilities. It can also help to prevent confusion and address common questions that arise when starting to work journey-centric. For more on Journey Management Playbooks and a template for building your own, have a look at our guide here.
Get the board involved
Getting support from the highest management levels in the organization can help a great deal to promote Journey Management as a way of working. To get the board on board, TheyDo offers functionality specifically aimed to help them make journey-centric decisions on a strategic level. Have a look at our guide on that topic.

Process
Process indicates how deeply Journey Management and the triple diamond (or a variation thereof) are integrated and accepted as a way of working in the organization. The more efficient your journey management workflow is, the better you will be able to translate customer insights into product or service deliveries. There are several best practices to improve how you work.
Streamline your Journey Management Workflow
Make sure you have a clear overview of how your triple diamond (or your variation thereof) functions within the unique context of your organization. If you haven’t implemented this way of working yet, sketch out how it should work. Map out what steps you take to go from gathering Insights to implementing Solutions, and make it very clear how the different roles, teams, tools, and ceremonies in your organization contribute to each step. Then run it, capture relevant Insights, and improve it. Sounds familiar? Streamlining your triple diamond is exactly the same process as streamlining any Customer Journey. Therefore, TheyDo is an ideal tool to map and improve it.
Incorporate Journey Management Ceremonies
Just like Agile comes with certain ceremonies like sprint planning or retrospectives, Journey Management also has ceremonies you can incorporate in your way of working. These ceremonies take place at key moments in the Triple Diamond, in order to ensure a smooth and effective collaboration and handover between different teams and roles. TheyDo can help a great deal to make these ceremonies run smoothly. For more on these ceremonies, have a look at our guide on the subject.

Culture
Culture indicates how well the journey-centric mindset and related skills are embedded in the culture and workforce of the organization. There are several things you can address to improve your culture:
Create a showcase
Spreading a Journey-centric culture will be much easier when you can ‘prove’ the value of working journey-centric. The sooner you can showcase a good result, the better; so keep this in mind when you plan your first projects in TheyDo. Ideally, a showcase should emphasize the positive impact of Journey Management, highlighting how it can improve customer satisfaction, revenue, and/or collaboration. Such tangible results will help to illustrate the value of working with customer journeys and promote its adoption as a core business practice.
Hire or upskill Journey Management expertise
While TheyDo can certainly enhance team productivity and streamline collaboration, it cannot entirely replace the expertise of experienced professionals. To scale up effectively, it therefore helps to build a ‘critical mass’ of people that have significant experience in working with customer journeys. This can be achieved through hiring candidates with relevant expertise in Service Design, UX-Design, and other relevant fields. However, given the high demand for such people, offering training and development opportunities to employees within the organization can be a viable alternative to hiring. Upskilling not only bridges skill gaps but also increases employee engagement and motivation, creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
We offer training aimed at improving TheyDo expertise. For more comprehensive training in service-design, design thinking, and other related fields, we can recommend our partners.
Set up a Journey Management community
Starting a Journey Management community can be a great way to raise interest and overall skill level. By bringing interested people together, you can foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Members can share best practices, collaborate on projects, and provide feedback on how Journey Management and TheyDo is being used. This type of collaborative environment can help to identify areas where people may be struggling, and can provide opportunities to offer targeted training and support to address those challenges. In addition, by building a network of experts and advocates, this community can help to promote the value of Journey Management across the organization, and can encourage wider adoption and more consistent use.
Our Enablement Managers are happy to support your internal communities as well. Furthermore, we have also set up our own community to which you can subscribe here.
Train TheyDo coaches
Training a group of TheyDo coaches can be an effective way to improve skill levels overall and provide support for newer users. They are often ‘super users’; people who have demonstrated a high level of proficiency and interest in TheyDo, and have a deep understanding of its capabilities and features. These users can become valuable references for other users who may be struggling to learn the tool. They can provide guidance, answer questions, and offer tips and tricks to help users improve their skills. As a result, these super users can help to create a more collaborative and supportive environment, where users are encouraged to share their knowledge and help one another. This can ultimately lead to higher levels of productivity, improved outcomes, and a stronger sense of community within the user base.
We are happy to help you train a group of TheyDo coaches.
Reward accountability for customer satisfaction
In many goal-setting and evaluation processes, the focus tends to be on financial or delivery-based targets. This can result in employees feeling unsupported in their efforts to improve customer satisfaction, as their projects are not assessed based on this criterion. To promote a customer-centric culture, it can help to incorporate customer-focused Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) into project and team evaluations. This incentivizes employees to adopt methods like Customer Journey mapping, as their performance will be directly tied to enhancing customer satisfaction. This encourages a mindset that prioritizes the overall customer experience, ultimately leading to enhanced satisfaction for customers. TheyDo is a crucial tool to enable this approach since you can assign direct ownership of Journeys, and track their performance using both qualitative Insights and quantitative Metrics.

Organization
Organization indicates how effectively the organizational structure, teams and roles are organized around the ownership and responsibilities related to journey management. Several things can be done to improve here:
Involve diverse roles
TheyDo is often adopted first by service designers, UX’ers, or other customer-centric experts. However, we can strongly recommend to involve a wider variety of roles to take part. TheyDo is uniquely able to centralize all customer knowledge, and present it in a way that’s accessible for non-designers as well. Think of including:
- Leadership are often ideal candidates to pick up the ownership of high-level Opportunities in TheyDo. Furthermore, TheyDo’s overviews of the entire journey framework, opportunities and solutions are specifically built to help set company-wide priorities.
- Data scientists are often ideal candidates to pick up the ownership of Metrics in TheyDo. Theydo can also help them a great deal to see their data in relation to the qualitative Insights that help to explain them. As such, it can be an invaluable tool for them.
- Product owners are often ideal candidates to pick up the ownership of Solutions in TheyDo. TheyDo can help them track performance of their Solutions, and better understand their impact on customer experience in the context of all other products and services as well.
- HR when they need to create a better overview of employee experience, and connect this to the customer experience.
- Devops teams to help them understand the context of what they are building and why.
Organize teams around the journey-centric workflow
A key question is often what teams or roles are responsible for what parts of the Triple Diamond, and how they work together to achieve an efficient flow from gathering Insights to implementing Solutions.
Create new roles and responsibilities
Establish clear role definitions and responsibilities for journey management-related positions. This clarity ensures that each team member knows their duties, and also helps to create time and budget to do these tasks. They might even replace “obsolete” duties. Regularly review and adjust these roles as needed to adapt to the organization’s evolving needs and priorities. For more on these roles, have a look at our guide on the topic.

Measurement
Measurement indicates how effectively the organization determines, measures and tracks key performance indicators related to customer journeys, and how it uses that data to drive improvements. There are several things you can do to help improve your measurement:
Integrate Metrics in your Journeys
TheyDo offers an increasing number of integrations with data platforms, allowing you to include KPI’s in your journeys. Have a look at our guide for more information on this.
Introduce customer-centric goals at the strategic level
Your strategic goals (or OKR’s) reflect your organization’s culture and what is deemed valuable. Including customer-centric OKR’s next to your financial, business and technology OKRs helps ensure that you stay focused on the customer. You can use TheyDo to create an ‘executive-level’ end-to-end Journey that summarises the most important Metrics, Insights, Opportunities, and Solutions across your whole customer lifecycle.
Tools
Tools cover the level of completeness, adoption, and integration of the technology, systems, and toolkits used to support a journey-centric way of working.
Set up TheyDo for Scale
Amongst TheyDo’s many features, there are several that will help you to scale up Journey Management across your organization:
- Set up Journey Templates. Creating Journey Templates helps to standardize your way of working, since it helps teams to work in a consistent manner. For more on Journey Templates, have a look at our guide on the subject.
- Set up an example Journey. Using your Journey Template, create a fully populated example Journey that can serve as a reference for new users.
- Set up a Journey Framework. A Journey Framework will help your teams to organize their Journeys in one consistent overview.
- Set up a Taxonomy. A good Taxonomy will help your teams to search, filter, and compare all output you create in TheyDo.
Integrate your tool ecosystem around Journeys
TheyDo offers increasing integration with commonly used tools. We currently offer integrations with Qualtrics, Jira, and Azure Devops, with many more on the nearby horizon. This means that TheyDo can become the ‘spider in the web’ where you can connect all the output of other tools around your Journey ecosystem.