Digitalist
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Research & Insights

Do you really know your customer?

Let's explore and undercover your customers' thoughts. We'll use these insights to shape more innovative business strategies.

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Improving business decision-making

Navigating today's ever-changing business landscape requires sharp decision-making. We mix qualitative and quantitative research to uncover insights that are not just comprehensive but genuinely actionable. These insights are your toolkit for grabbing opportunities, reducing risks, and staying competitive.

Analyzing customer behavior and needs

At the heart of every successful business are its customers. Understanding their needs, behaviors, motivations, and pain points is critical to engaging with them meaningfully. We use various research methods to gather valuable perspectives that help shape your services, products, and marketing strategies

Strategies for customer-driven success

Being customer-centric is crucial to stand out in a crowded market. We're here to help you make that shift and guide your organization to be truly driven by customer insights. From product ideas to service delivery, we embed these insights into every part of your operations, helping you build a business around your customers.

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Our approach to customer-centric, actionable insights

Our research expertise and insights tap into various data sources and methods, including AI technologies, to deeply understand customer behaviors and market trends. We offer actionable insights and strategic recommendations that boost your decision-making and development processes.

Our AI tools and expert analysis ensure that our insights are comprehensive and context-rich. This will help you achieve meaningful customer engagement, strengthen relationships, and give yourself a competitive edge in today's digital world.

Partnering with Digitalist was a game-changer for our website renewal and customer research. Their expertise streamlined our research processes, delivering valuable insights and establishing a customer community. Their ongoing support and coaching significantly enhanced our digital services, empowering our team and setting a solid foundation for continuous improvement.

Anni Leppänen, Lead Service Designer, City of Helsinki
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Supporting service & product development

We provide insights across various organizational levels, from supporting our clients in their strategic and operational work to empowering them with actionable insights that span the entire service and product development lifecycle, including the crucial customer interface and organizational tiers. With a profound understanding of the target audience, we empower organizations to establish genuine connections, anticipate needs, and deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply.

Our toolkit offers insight services tailored to specific client needs, ready-made service packages, and insight programs to evolve into a more customer-driven organization.

Providing platforms and tools

In conjunction with our projects, we provide insight platforms, repositories, and playbooks, complemented by consultancy services.

We utilize our own participatory collaboration and community platform Leanlab which enables continuous co-creation and dialogue with customers and other key stakeholders.

Customer & user understanding

  • Customer & user Insights
  • Ethnographic research
  • Contextual studies
  • Diary Studies & probes
  • Focus groups & Co-design workshops
  • Segmentation/profiling/persona creation
  • Surveys & Quantitative studies
  • Media & Brand Insights

User testing, validations & feasibility

  • Concept validations
  • UX/Usability testing and evaluations
  • Accessibility audits and testing with special groups
  • CX Metrics
  • Requirements specifications & tech feasibility

Research processes & operations

  • Insight programs
  • Collaboration & community platform facilitation
  • Privacy management & GDPR consulting
  • Coaching & training

Some typical KPI's for research & insight

+70%

Faster decision-making

By providing actionable insights, our research services reduce decision-making time by 70%. This speed enables companies to implement strategic changes more rapidly, responding to market opportunities and challenges with agility and confidence.

+82%

Customer understanding boost

Companies leveraging our research and insights experience an 82% enhancement in understanding customer behaviors and preferences. This depth of knowledge allows for more precise targeting and personalized customer interactions, leading to improved engagement and loyalty.

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AI to keep up with the game

Utilizing advanced AI technologies, we offer precise market predictions and deep customer insights, helping you stay ahead of industry trends and customer expectations.

Exploring the world with empathy

Join us on a journey of discovery as we use a mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods to uncover deep insights. From ethnography to surveys, contextual studies to trend analysis, we use diverse approaches better to understand the world and the people around us.

Some of our clients

Finnair fleet

Finnair

Digitalist partnered with Finnair to create a customer-driven innovation culture, engaging global customers early in service development and enhancing the airline's ability to differentiate in a competitive market.
People in Tampere

City of Tampere

Digitalist partnered with Tampere to redesign employment and integration services through stakeholder workshops and service design, enhancing customer experience and preparing for the 2025 TE services reform.
People in Helsinki

Helsinki City  I  Hel.fi

Digitalist partnered with the City of Helsinki to develop a customer research program for the Hel.fi renewal, engaging over 4,000 residents, improving services through continuous testing, and fostering agile development.

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Raisa Suihkonen
CX Insight Director