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Whether you’re looking for something educational or fun, mHUB produces events and classes that inform and inspire.
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Title:
Introduction to Customer Experience Mapping for Entrepreneurs
Description:
“As competition and buyer empowerment compounds, customer experience itself is proving to be the only truly durable competitive advantage.” - Gartner Research
Customer Experience Mapping is a key practice for businesses to be able to truly understand what customers care about and how they make them feel. The insights gained from this activity are critical to enable your organization to deliver exceptional in-person and digital experiences and succeed in the age of the customer.
Learn how these collaborative, creative activities can produce valuable Customer Experience Maps that will fuel your team's insight and innovation.
You’ll Learn:
- How leading companies use customer experience as a critical competitive advantage
- The building blocks of Customer Experience Mapping activities
- How to introduce Customer Experience Mapping to your own organization
About Highland:
Highland Solutions is a customer experience firm with a fierce commitment to keeping people at the center of our work. We use our skills in CX strategy, custom software development, and CRM implementation to help innovative leaders understand their customers and take smart risks. We love working with customer-centric and mission-driven organizations who want to adopt the principles of more disruptive businesses to take their impact to the next level.
Venue
ONLINE
Location
Date and Time
01/18/22 @ 1:00 PM
01/18/22 @ 1:00 PM
Tags
Discovery, Curriculum, Customer Discovery
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mHUB HardTech Summit
The 2026 HardTech Summit will return on March 5, 2026, bringing together top hardtech entrepreneurs, startups, investors, and industry leaders to celebrate innovation in the Midwest. The HardTech Summit attracts over 1,200 entrepreneurs and public and private sector professionals at the intersection of manufacturing and innovation.

Fourth Revolution Awards
The Fourth Revolution Awards acknowledge outstanding hardtech entrepreneurs, community organizations, and manufacturers in the Midwest region that are driving technological advancement and social impact. The awards ceremony will close out the March 6, 2025 HardTech Summit. The nomination window will open in Q4 of 2025.
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All classes and events are available to the public. Curriculum courses are tied to a specific track and stage of development, making connections to tools in the mHUB ecosystem to ensure members are maximizing the right resources at the right time.
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