Hidden leaks, Visible impact

Broken customer journeys and processes
cost more than you think.

I help organisations uncover friction, inefficiencies and value loss across customer journeys and operations — to improve customer experience and growth.

Debbie Van der Mercken
Customer Journey & Business Consultant

connecting the dots that drive results

GOALS
Objectives, expectations and growth ambitions

JOURNEYS
End-to-end journeys across channels and touchpoints

OPERATIONS
Teams and processes, the reality behind the experience

RESULTS
Less friction. More impact. Better business results.

Small friction often creates
substantial negative business impact

  • Growth is slowing down, but what are the real reasons behind

  • Customers drop off somewhere along the way

  • Customers keep asking the same questions

  • Teams don’t have a shared view of the customer journey

  • Follow-up happens too slowly or inconsistently

  • Too much depends on manual work or specific people

  • Customers have inconsistent experiences across channels

  • Operational complexity keeps increasing, efficiency drops

Let’s find out where value gets lost

Together, we explore:

  • where customers drop off

  • where teams lose alignment

  • where processes slow things down

  • and where friction impacts growth

The outcome

Clear insights, practical next steps with quick wins and priorities.

Creating a stronger connection between customer journeys, teams and processes.

How I work

Discovery

Understanding your goals and challenges

Journey and process analysis

Mapping detailed journeys, processes and friction

Friction and solution mapping

Identifying bottlenecks and value loss

Cross-team alignment

Aligning stakeholders and teams on solutions

Priorities & actions

Clear priorities and practical execution

Experience accros enterprise and growing businesses

Helping organisations and businesses since 2010 from graphic design and front-end development to user (UX), customer experience (CX), service and business design.

Today, I focus on uncovering friction, improving alignment and value by connecting journeys, teams and processes.

Worked with teams across business, IT, operations, legal, compliance, marketing and data within organisations such as Belfius, BNP Paribas Fortis, KBC, ING and Proximus, as well as SMEs and leaders.

Let’s reveal & fix the friction