/> Customer Experience | Alba

What customers
actually experience.

Identify strengths and improvement areas across the entire customer journey — from greeting and environment to service and communication, offline and online. Phase by phase, channel by channel, with concrete action proposals.

Loyalty

Customers with an excellent experience are 6× more likely to stay and recommend.

86%
Willing to pay more

Of customers will gladly pay more for a better customer experience — yet few companies price it deliberately.

10
Prioritised actions

We rank improvement areas by expected impact on NPS — not 50 observations, but a top-10 to act on.

Sample from a delivery

What a customer journey map looks like

Every touchpoint scored + a ranked action list by impact on NPS. With quotes and concrete improvement proposals per identified friction point. Actual delivery (anonymised).

Example: Customer journey map from a CX delivery

A complete picture
of the customer experience

We always start by understanding your business goals — then we choose method and design. The result is not just numbers but concrete action recommendations ranked by expected impact.

Service & greeting

How is the staff perceived? Tone, expertise, willingness to help, time invested. Per staff category, store or region — so you can see where you have "service champions" and where you need training.

Per store Per staff category Mystery shopper

Environment & atmosphere

Strengthens or weakens the experience? Store/restaurant environment: hygiene, sound, lighting, scent, navigability. Online: speed, mobile experience, navigation. We map what is dragging the experience down — without you noticing.

Offline Online Sensory

Communication & clarity

Is the message consistent? Across channels — web, store, receipt, email, social media. Between promise and delivery. Identifies where the consumer encounters contradictions or unexpected information.

Channel consistency Promise delivery Expectation gap

Concrete improvement areas

Not 50 observations — 10 prioritised actions. Ranked by impact on customer satisfaction and NPS. Per phase in the journey, with owner and time budget specified. For decisions, not for filing.

Top-10 Impact ranked With owners
Free guide · PDF
The complete
guide to
customer experience
20 min · 24 pages

The complete guide to customer experience

A 20-minute read written by Johan Asklund. How to map the customer journey touchpoint by touchpoint, measure CSI/NPS/CES, and translate friction points into prioritised actions. Mystery-shopper checklists and customer journey maps included.

Read the guide →

The whole customer journey
— phase by phase

Customer experience is the sum of all touchpoints. We measure every phase of the journey, from first impression to post-purchase, and identify where the experience holds and where it slips.

01 · Phases in the customer journey

Measurement points across the entire journey

We follow every phase — adapted to your business model — and measure both quantitatively and qualitatively.

01First exposure & impression
02Web search & comparison
03First-time visit (store/web)
04Service & greeting
05Environment & atmosphere
06Purchase process & checkout
07Delivery & unboxing
08Product experience
09Support & complaints
10Post-purchase communication
11Repurchase phase
12Recommendation & sharing
13Loyalty programme
14Off-boarding
02 · Overall metrics

Three KPIs that lead

Standardised key figures — comparable over time and against external benchmarks.

CSI
Customer Satisfaction Index — overall satisfaction on a 1–10 scale.
CES
Customer Effort Score — how easy or difficult it is to be a customer.
NPS
Recommendation willingness — share of promoters minus detractors.
03 · What you get

Concrete — not just an average score

For every insight we deliver:

→ Customer journey map

Every touchpoint scored with a quantitative metric + qualitative quotes.

→ Friction points

The top-10 most important improvement areas, ranked by impact on NPS.

→ Per channel

Breakdown by physical store, web, app, phone, email — so you can see where the gaps are.

→ Action plan

Per identified friction: concrete proposal, owner and time horizon. For implementation.

What the delivery looks like

Examples from an actual report

Screenshots from a customer experience study for a B2C coffee chain (anonymised). 1,107 respondents through app + Wi-Fi, 80+ units measured. Delivered with executive summary, NPS trend, per-unit analysis and concrete actions.

Example: Executive summary with NPS, CSI and base
Executive summaryNPS, CSI and base on a single page — plus three short headline findings for management.
Example: NPS trend over 3 years
NPS trend over timeContinuous measurement over 3 years — shows loyalty movements independent of short-term events.
Example: NPS per café — top 5 / bottom 5
Spread per unitTop vs bottom 5 — identifies where local management makes a difference and where best practice should be packaged from.
Example: Conclusions and four concrete actions
Conclusions & actionsFour concrete actions ranked by impact — best practice packaging, targeted interventions, price perception, continuous measurement.

The images are from an actual delivery to a B2C coffee chain in 2022 (n=1,107, 80+ units, NPS follow-up over 3 years). Customer name, brand and respondent data have been removed or masked in the example.

Johan Asklund — Founder and CEO, Alba Business Group
Johan Asklund
Founder & CEO · Alba Business Group

30+ years of experience in B2B research. Has run Alba since 2005 (formerly TradeWell Group). Personal contact on every project — no project managers swapped out mid-engagement.

"Alba's NPS study identified three churn risks we had missed. Two customers were saved before the quarter was out."

— CEO, B2B manufacturer · 4 subsidiaries · MSEK 220 turnover
+14
NPS points after a UX rework
Retail chain · 50+ stores
Mystery shopping + customer survey
Case study in brief

"We thought the problem was the product. The study showed that 70% of the friction was in the in-store greeting — and in the SMS confirmation afterwards. Two changes lifted NPS by 14 points."

— CEO, Retail chain · 50+ stores · 2025
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Want to know exactly where
the experience clicks — and where it does not?

Book 15 minutes and we will discuss your current customer journey, which touchpoints you want to measure and how we design the study to capture both quantitative and qualitative insight.

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Johan replies within one working day · No sales-pitch meetings

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