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What do you mean customers don’t know what they want?

What do you mean customers don’t know what they want?

By Hutch Carpenter on March 4, 2013

If I’d asked customers what they want, they’d have said more convenience and relevance. Look familiar? I’ve riffed on that Henry Ford quote about faster horses, yada, yada. It’s not too far off from what customers would theoretically have been seeking in faster horses. I altered that quote to fit a modern day phenomenon: 3D [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 3d printing, google, Henry Ford, jobs to be done, jtbd, MakerBot Industries, mba | 1 Response

A Method for Applying Jobs-to-Be-Done to Product and Service Design

A Method for Applying Jobs-to-Be-Done to Product and Service Design

By Hutch Carpenter on January 15, 2013

Say you’re designing something new for a product or service. Of course, you have your own ideas for what to do. But, how informed are you really about what is needed? This is a question I faced in thinking about game mechanics used in a social platform. A common product approach is to work up [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged design thinking, game mechanics, Gamification, innovation, jobs to be done, jtbd, mba, Product Management, Ranking

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