[Check out the recent written interview with me by Jim Kalbach, author of The Jobs to Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Need. Jim is also the host of the “JTBD Untangled” monthly webinar where I presented separately about Lean JTBD™.] How to Find High Conviction Ideas You have a choice. You can place …
What If You Could Know In Advance How to Win in the Market? Most companies have an incomplete understanding about their target customers’ unmet needs. This makes creating winning new and improved offerings very challenging. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) knew all about this. Like most organizations, NFPA thought the best way to create new …
How to Create New and Improved Offerings that Win Have you noticed a popular post floating around on LinkedIn proclaiming that “Your startup (or new product) idea is worthless!” It’s accompanied by a video clip of Steve Jobs in 1995 essentially saying the same thing. The argument is that “ideas are worthless; it’s the execution that …
Customers Can Tell You What They Want You’re Invited! If you’re in Central Ohio on the evening of May 2, come join me at the next ProductTank Meetup Columbus. I’ll be leading an interactive presentation on how companies are using the Jobs-to-Be-Done growth strategy to: Find hidden market opportunities Create differentiated value Drive revenue growth in a …
Innovate with Ideas 1st or Needs 1st? Product Managers face a big question: should we start by brainstorming a bunch of ideas and then attempt to iterate our way to product/market fit? Or should we discover the target customers’ unmet needs and then generate solution ideas to address them? Many people advocate generating a lot …
Differentiate to Win Market Leadership In my last newsletter – The Bezos Strategy (And Yours?): Relentless Focus on Unchanging Needs – I wrote about how Jeff Bezos built Amazon’s strategy “around the things that are stable over time” – i.e., the customers’ unchanging needs – and how you can do this, too. One reader told …
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