Customer journeys give marketers a familiar mental model to manage and work with their creative content. You can create customer journeys directly in Next-Best-Action Designer and map actions to all of the different journey stages. Each stage represents an experience that a customer goes through when interacting with your organization. By using customer journeys, you can see all of your actions and treatments for a particular journey laid out visually, so you can easily spot any gaps or white spaces in your engagement strategies.

In addition to this mental model, customer journeys also influence the AI and the next-best-action decisions. The next-best-action strategy framework and analytical models take the previous stages and other journey metadata, and provide this as additional context to the analytics to help you make better decisions. Your next-best-action decisions are still going to make use of the arbitration formula (Propensity * Context * Value * Levers), but using customer journeys enhances the P (propensity) score with contextual customer journey data.

To start building customer journeys, go to Creating a customer journey.

To learn more about how customer journeys influence NBA, see Understanding how customer journeys influence Next-Best-Actions.