Ignite Advisory Group Blog
Outsourcing Customer Advisory Board Management: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Visualize this scenario: you’re a top executive of a major technology firm or service provider. You’re about to walk into a meeting with your very best customers and/or partners—the revenue from whom will absolutely make or break your company’s business plan for the...
Ryder Describes Five Keys to Customer Advisory Board Program Success
When it comes to learning best practice advice towards optimally managing a customer advisory board (CAB) program, you would be hard-pressed to find a better source than Ryder. After all, the successful Fortune 500 company has been running four distinct CABs for over...
Not a One-Time Event: How to Make Your Customer Advisory Board an Ongoing Program
One of the most important concepts to learn – and communicate to your members and internal executives – is that your customer advisory board (CAB) should not be established as a “one-time” meeting or an “event.” Doing so implies that your program is attempting to...
Customer Advisory Board Members Not Showing Up to Meetings? Top 5 Reasons Why (And What You Can Do About Them)
Well-run customer advisory boards (CABs) usually get a high percentage of member attendees at meetings (either in-person or virtual). And why not – these engagements should offer your members the opportunity to learn about potential solutions to shared challenges,...
In-Person vs. Virtual: 6 Tips for Managing Hybrid Attendance at Customer Advisory Board Meetings
With the Covid pandemic and related variants surging, many companies are struggling with their in-person travel and meeting procedures and policies. While they may desire to get “back to normal” operations to bolster their revenue streams, they are faced with...
Customer Advisory Board Success: Fireside Chat with Banking Veteran Jeff Rankin
When it comes to learning how to run a successful customer advisory board (CAB), it’s always insightful to learn first-hand how some companies are doing it well. I had the pleasure of conducting an informal, “fireside” chat with Jeff Rankin, a former executive of U.S....
