Customer Data & Analytics

How mature is your customer data strategy?

Segment has developed a Customer Data Maturity Model that will help you understand where you are on your journey and provide specific recommendations on how to take your organization to the next level.

Oct 28, 2020

By Doug Roberge, Simone Roscitt


According to a PwC survey on data trust, 94% of CEOs consider data on customer preferences/needs as critical or important, but only 15% actually have comprehensive data in this area. Reliability, evolving regulations, and access to data are named as common obstacles for companies that are trying to act on and monetize their customer data.

It’s no secret that the most cutting-edge and customer centric organizations are those that can overcome these challenges. In Deloitte’s Digital Transformation 2020 survey, 45% of mature companies from a data and digital experience perspective achieved net revenue growth above industry averages, compared to only 15% of companies not rated as highly mature.

Introducing Segment's Customer Data Maturity Model

After helping thousands of companies map their customer data strategy—including several Fortune 500 enterprises—we found companies with a high level of customer data maturity are able to trust their data to make decisions, personalize the customer experience, and adapt their business to changing environments and customer needs. These core competencies have a remarkable impact on the success of their businesses overall, leading to more efficient acquisition, deeper customer engagement, and increased revenue.

Where does your company fall on the Customer Data Maturity scale? Are you a visionary or are you just getting started? Most likely you fall somewhere in the middle, but how do you know?

We’ve consolidated our learnings into a 4-question Customer Data Maturity Model that will help you understand where you are from a data maturity perspective and provide specific recommendations on how to take your organization to the next level.

Maturity Model
A graphic explaining the four stages of customer data maturity

Take the Customer Data Maturity evaluation.

In this quick, four-question evaluation, you will learn how your company tracks against the four core competencies of Customer Data Maturity: 

Collect - how complete, reliable, and standardized your data collection process is.

collect (1)
Collection graphic - data being collected from multiple data sources by Segment

Synthesize - how easy is it to turn data points into insights for all teams?

Synthesize
Depiction of how Segment helps companies make their customer data useful

Act - how personalized and timely are your customer interactions across channels?

act (1)
A gif that shows how Segment helps companies act on the data that they collect

Adapt - how accessible and easy to work with is your data? How quickly can you adopt new tools?

adapt (1)
Adaptability gif displaying the swapping out of different integrations, like Amplitude, Snowflake, SendGrid etc

Ready to see how your company stacks up? 

Start your evaluation now.

The State of Personalization 2023

Our annual look at how attitudes, preferences, and experiences with personalization have evolved over the past year.

Get the report
SOP 2023

The State of Personalization 2023

Our annual look at how attitudes, preferences, and experiences with personalization have evolved over the past year.

Get the report
SOP 2023

Share article

Want to keep updated on Segment launches, events, and updates?

We’ll share a copy of this guide and send you content and updates about Twilio Segment’s products as we continue to build the world’s leading CDP. We use your information according to our privacy policy. You can update your preferences at any time.