Customers Matter

Judy Bailey, a Kiwi who moved to Australia started her career in a typing pool, graduated in HR and is now responsible for $450 million of retail services revenue for Unitywater - a monopoly water and sewage business in the fast growing corridor of Australia’s sunshine coast. Remarkably, she’s discovered even monopolies can benefit from understanding their customers including innovating to ensure the company has a future ...

Teresa Tija was a Chinese Indonesian migrant who arrived in Perth aged 10. Her family taught her that education was the pathway to opportunity and success. Today she is reshaping that pathway around the needs of university customers - students - and is determined to understand their journeys and use to exceed their expectations, including by better using digital tools and channels ...

Flight Centre is one of Australia’s most successful companies. Today it employs 18,000 people, operates in 13 countries and has 42 brands. It has gone from being a disruptor of the travel industry to being the industry. And now it wants to disrupt itself. Its Global COO, Melanie Waters Ryan, explains why and how …

Why are we launching a podcast? It's the ability to multitask, while driving, exercising or doing housework - and to get the content that's exactly what interests you that's prompted us to create Customers Matter - a podcast about customer-centred marketing in an age of digital disruption. We promise the intellectual rigour of Harvard Business Review to our topics with the passion and the energy of talk-back.