Operationalising Customer Experience — The Missing Link in CX Strategy

CX Management & Execution

Dr Gautam Jha
University of Cambridge / CXMi
October 20, 2025
1 min read
Operationalising Customer Experience — The Missing Link in CX Strategy
Many firms measure CX but few manage it. Learn how the ACM framework turns customer-experience strategy into everyday operational discipline.

Why measurement isn’t management

Most organisations measure CX through NPS, CSAT, or Voice-of-Customer dashboards — but few actually manage it. Metrics reveal outcomes; they don’t improve capability. The missing link lies in turning insight into operational practice.

From concept to execution

At Cambridge, our research identified a persistent pattern: firms excel at articulating why CX matters but struggle with how to operationalise it. That gap inspired CXMi’s ACM framework, which breaks CXM into implementation practices that can act as competitive differentiators across three building blocks, which we term smaller details:

  • Attitudes: the mindsets that drive advocacy and purpose.
  • Capabilities: the organisational competencies aligned to journey-based value streams.
  • Methods: the repeatable techniques that embed learning and improvement.

Making CX actionable

When these dimensions are managed together, CX shifts from marketing language to operating discipline — connecting customer intent, data, and delivery.

Excellence in CX doesn’t come from slogans or a technical platform; it emerges from the consistent implementation of practices performed exceptionally well.