Urko Wood
Innovation Catalyst
Urko Wood
Innovation Catalyst
A Message From Urko Wood, Founder and JTBD Practitioner
You know how companies waste time and money building products and services that people don’t actually want?
Innovation can feel like a frustrating, costly guessing game – one that eats away at market share, profitability, and competitive position.
But it doesn’t have to be that way!
We help companies innovate with confidence by revealing their target customers’ hidden unmet needs, so they can set themselves apart from the competition and drive innovation as a repeatable business process.
We work with CEOs, founders, and product innovation executives who want to drive innovation and growth as a repeatable business process, eliminating guesswork to achieve success.
After 7 years working at Strategyn (the chief pioneer of the Jobs-to-Be-Done innovation approach) and over a decade leading Reveal Growth Consultants, I’ve seen firsthand how the JTBD framework transforms how companies approach innovation – by focusing on real customer needs, not assumptions.
This approach has helped companies achieve 3-5X higher success rates than industry averages that linger at 20-40%.
Innovation doesn’t start with an idea – it starts with understanding your target customers’ unmet needs. When you get that right, the ideas will follow.
I’m committed to helping leaders achieve these results because I’ve witnessed how this approach transforms both innovation success rates and organizational capabilities.
“You don’t invent the answer – you reveal the answer.” – Jonas Salk, Developer of the Polio Vaccine
More About How We Can Help You
Derisk Innovation:
– Reveal unmet customer needs
– Determine which opportunities to pursue
– Create conceptual product/market fit
Find and capture hidden opportunities for growth
Consistently generate winning ideas
Make innovation and growth repeatable
Is it hard to:
Differentiate?
Understand what target customers want?
Figure out where to focus to drive innovation and growth?
We can fix that.
Your Innovation Roadmap
3 Steps to Consistently Create Unique Value
1
Find the Target Customers' Unmet Needs
A customer need is “unmet” when it is both important and poorly satisfied. The more important and less satisfied a need is, the greater the opportunity for innovation and growth it presents.
2
Select Which Opportunities to Pursue
Evaluate each opportunity and select those that are attractive to pursue for new value creation given your firm’s relative advantage. Also determine the best way to address each opportunity, i.e., messaging and positioning, internal build, M&A, or operational alignment.
3
Devise Solution Ideas
Because you now know what customers are trying to get done, how they measure success, and where the opportunities lie – as well as which opportunities you want to pursue – you’ll have clarity and confidence about where to focus and what to do to create winning new or improved offerings.
Innovation should never be a guessing game.
Learn more about the JTBD approach.
We focus on helping clients drive growth in three ways:
Urko’s deep knowledge, patience and guidance…allowed us to move forward with the utmost confidence.
–KIM FONTES, DIVISION DIRECTOR, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION
…(Urko) enabled us to create new services and drive revenue growth.
–DARCI CONGROVE, MANAGING DIRECTOR, GBQ PARTNERS
…hugely valuable…enabled us to design a unique business-centric offering…
–JEFF BAKER, HEAD OF MARKET INSIGHTS AND NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, NETJETS