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Jobs-to-be-done | Three tests ALL ideas must pass

Jobs-to-be-done | Three tests ALL ideas must pass

By Hutch Carpenter on January 28, 2015

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill… they want a quarter-inch hole. Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business School professor You’re awash in ideas. Ideally from running targeted campaigns, but you may be seeing them from other quarters as well. Great, then what? A key activity in the process of innovation is determining which of many […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged decision-making, Idea Evaluation, jobs to be done

Consumer adoption of Bitcoin | A jobs-to-be-done analysis

Consumer adoption of Bitcoin | A jobs-to-be-done analysis

By Hutch Carpenter on January 21, 2015

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently did one of his tweetstorms on the topic of Bitcoin, a technology he avidly supports. In 25 tweets, he talked about criticisms people have of Bitcoin. Including this one (#18) about “use cases”: 18/The third critique I call the “innocent” one — “Are there enough sufficiently compelling uses cases for Bitcoin […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged bitcoin, blockchain, currency, Electronic money, jobs to be done, jtbd, Marc Andreessen, mba, possibility effect, uncertainty effect

Gmail offers surprising innovation lessons for the Fortune 500

Gmail offers surprising innovation lessons for the Fortune 500

By Hutch Carpenter on April 9, 2014

If you’re familiar with the story of Gmail, you know – for a fact – that it was a 20% time employee project by Paul Buchheit. A little bottom-up experimentation that grew into something big. Surprise! That story is wrong. It was a desire by Google, the company, to offer its own email. From Harry McCracken’s great piece How […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged gmail, google, hotmail, innovation, jobs to be done, jtbd, mba, Paul Buchheit, yahoo

Is it innovation or just an improvement? Does it matter?

Is it innovation or just an improvement? Does it matter?

By Hutch Carpenter on April 7, 2014

On the LinkedIn Front End of Innovation group, I saw this post: Interesting (and heated) discussions @ Unleashing Innovation Summit in Amsterdam earlier in the month: Incremental innovation is NOT innovation – it’s just marketing. REAL innovation is breakthrough/transformational… Agree or not? I’ve seen this debate before. Attempts to finally, once-and-for-all establish just where improvement […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged improvement, innovation, jobs to be done, jtbd, mba

Will customers adopt your innovation? Hope, fear and jobs-to-be-done

Will customers adopt your innovation? Hope, fear and jobs-to-be-done

By Hutch Carpenter on March 19, 2014

When will a customer decide your innovative product or service is worth adopting? It’s a question that marketers, strategists and others spend plenty of time thinking about. The factors are myriad and diverse. In this post, let’s examine two primary elements that influence both if an innovation will be adopted, and when it would happen: Decision weights assigned […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Daniel Kahneman, decision weights, geek, innovation, innovation adoption curve, innovation diffusion curve, jobs to be done, jtbd, kahneman, loss aversion, mba

When customers want a product roadmap, do this instead

When customers want a product roadmap, do this instead

By Hutch Carpenter on February 10, 2014

Product roadmaps suck. There, I said it. <exhales> OK, let’s explain that. Roadmaps that are real, living documents representing what you will deliver…are awesome. But that may not be the case for you; it wasn’t for me. Instead, a product roadmap was at its core a sales document for a prospect call. A lot of effort, with […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged b2b, customer centricity, enterprise software, jobs to be done, mba, Product Management, roadmap | 2 Responses

Decision flow for customer feature requests

Decision flow for customer feature requests

By Hutch Carpenter on January 28, 2014

If you  manage a product or service in the business-to-business (B2B) market, customer requests for features will be a regular part of your work. Requests come in through the sales team, service reps, and senior management, as well as directly from customers themselves. It’s a disruptive insertion of new items for your agenda. That disruption […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged b2b, customer needs, enterprise software, jobs to be done, lighthouse customers, mba, Product Management, voc | 1 Response

Collecting and analyzing jobs-to-be-done

Collecting and analyzing jobs-to-be-done

By Hutch Carpenter on January 17, 2014

via the Daily Mail I’ve previously written about collecting jobs-to-be-done from customers. Because I was analyzing a broad topic across the entire innovation lifecycle, it was a good way to get a breadth of insight. However, it doesn’t work as well in the more common situation for product managers and innovators: analyzing a specific flow. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged brown paper, Capgemini, customer insights, customer interviews, customer needs, jobs to be done, jtbd, mba, self-driving cars, Voice of the Customer

The Folly of Inside-Out Product Thinking

The Folly of Inside-Out Product Thinking

By Hutch Carpenter on December 12, 2013

Inside out just doesn’t fit right Ever run into this deductive reasoning? Customers like our existing products and our company We are building a new product that reflects the priorities of a company executive Therefore, customers will like our new product It’s a clear violation of the First Law of Product: Customers decide what products they […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged customer development, customer validation, gerry mcgovern, innovation, inside-out, jobs to be done, mba, microsoft, Product Management

The Product Manager is the Chief Customer Development Officer

The Product Manager is the Chief Customer Development Officer

By Hutch Carpenter on December 5, 2013

If pressed, what would you say is the secret to product success? Certainly there are a number of things that go into making and selling products. Prioritization, design, manufacturing frameworks, marketing, service, cost of production, etc. Each of these elements needs to be optimized, and there are people, practices and tools that do just that. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged customer development, jobs to be done, jtbd, mba

10 examples of fabulously flawed product-first thinking

10 examples of fabulously flawed product-first thinking

By Hutch Carpenter on November 5, 2013

In talking about jobs-to-be-done here, I sometimes think that all I’m doing is stating the obvious. I mean, isn’t it obvious that you’d create something that helped fulfill a need or desire? What else would you do? But I’ve seen in my own work experience, and across a multitude of initiatives in other industries, cases […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged facebook, innovation, JC Penney, jeff bezos, jobs to be done, jtbd, mba, Product Management, Segway, steve jobs, yahoo

Uncover latent needs with a simple question

Uncover latent needs with a simple question

By Hutch Carpenter on November 1, 2013

After publishing Latent needs are overplayed as an innovation dynamic, I got a lot of feedback. Plenty of agreement, but also some good counterpoints. And in reading through some of them, I realized that there is something to this. A lot of people are convinced that whole markets are waiting to be built based on people […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged jobs to be done, jtbd, latent needs, mba

Latent needs are overplayed as an innovation dynamic

Latent needs are overplayed as an innovation dynamic

By Hutch Carpenter on October 23, 2013

Reading this thought piece from the Silicon Valley Product Group, The End of Requirements, I saw this point about latent needs: Unrealized needs (also called “latent needs”) are those solutions where customers may not even be aware they even have the need until after they see and experience the solution. Examples include digital video recorders, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged customer insights, innovation, jobs to be done, jtbd, latent needs, mba | 1 Response

Generate opportunity maps with customer jobs-to-be-done

Generate opportunity maps with customer jobs-to-be-done

By Hutch Carpenter on October 18, 2013

In seeking to better understand customer jobs-to-be-done, I found myself a bit underarmed. Meaning, I didn’t really have a way to do this. The value of jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) thinking has only emerged recently. It’s still nascent, and there aren’t ready guideposts to follow. However, Tony Ulwick has been at it over two decades. Indeed, his […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged innovation, job-to-be-done, jobs to be done, jtbd, mba, strategyn

Exactly what jobs will self-driving cars satisfy?

Exactly what jobs will self-driving cars satisfy?

By Hutch Carpenter on October 3, 2013

On Twitter, I made this observation about the future of self-driving cars: Our kids will have a very different “driving” experience. Self-driving cars allow them to work during transit, and improve safety. #jetsons— Hutch Carpenter (@bhc3) September 22, 2013 A moment later, Megan Panatier made this skeptical counterpoint: Whenever I hear people talking about self […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology, Trends & Concepts | Tagged jobs to be done, jtbd, mba, outcome-driven innovation, self-driving, self-driving cars, vehicles | 1 Response

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