Thinking about the customer journey as a product is leading to a major shift in how product investments are determined , prioritized , funded and measured. Increasingly firms will be focusing on how an investment improves the economics of delivering products and journeys to a customer segment and how powerfully it reinforces engagement-rather than just how it drives sales or reduces costs. Particularly for companies that are somewhat distant from customer transactions such as consumer goods makers and B2B firms this requires developing fundamentally new skills and structures for gathering and analyzing customer data, interacting with customers and focusing on the experience design along with product and creative design. Today winning brands owe their success not just to the quality and value of what they sell but to the superiority of the journeys they create.