Getting to Act 2: Customer Engagement Lessons from the Movies
On the storytelling framework and the customer journey
I’ve written about stories as frameworks for customer engagement and their specific applications to product management. I also dig deeper into different parts of the story framework; the first is about the heroes and their needs.
In this post I focus on three of those elements from the Hero’s Journey:
- the Call to Adventure,
- the Refusal of the Call, and
- Crossing the Threshold
and map them onto the customer journey. (I will deal with them out of sequence, because I’ll be writing more about the Refusal of the Call in a future post.)
The Call to Adventure
It’s a necessary milestone in just about any conventional narrative. The call to adventure is what gets the ball rolling after the introduction of the cast and the setup of the plot in the opening chapters of scenes.
“Come with me if you want to live,” says Kyle Reese to Sarah Connor in The Terminator, saving her from the machine that would later say the same line in a different context, and — ah, never mind.
