There are four ways to uncover unmet customer needs: study customers using your product, look at substitutes, watch how people compensate when they can’t do a job with existing products, and understand the root causes of behavior. Modern technology to predict, to have theories that are causal to ‘why people…
4 Types of Innovation and how the psychology of the customer impacts this work
This matrix helps leaders identify the right type of strategy to solve a problem by asking two questions: How well can you define the problem? And how well can you define the skill domain(s) needed to solve it? Greg Satell Greg presents a clear way that should alert anyone having…
Widespread, prevalent, pervasive change…..
Having seen a few incidents in the world, this one will definitely be remembered. The tears of sadness, separation, anxiety, sickness, and bad economics are all spinning in circles around us personally and professionally. What comes next are the changes. They say in Washington DC to ‘never waste a crisis’….
Managing Yourself Cultivating Everyday Courage The right way to speak truth to power
Summary As an employee, proposing a change to the company boss can be terrifying. Knowing when the right opportunity to confront a problem in the workplace appears is just as scary. Those who challenge the status quo of the workplace risk their reputation and their jobs. Professor James R Detert…
The Economist Measuring wellness From data to insights – Summary and comments
Written by Christopher H Skinner. In 2014, The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey in partnership with Humana to measure employee wellness as well as employer wellness program availability. 255 individuals in executive positions in US-based companies were polled as well as 630 US residents with full-time jobs by an…
Neil Peart and Clayton Christensen
Two of my long term heroes both died within days of each other. I plan to do an analysis of their writing styles to indicate any personality traits that they might share in common. Both Inspired me in my personal life and more so, in my business life. I would…
Product market fit and product design thinking is in trouble
There’s a lot of ways to define product-market fit success. The obvious success is sales followed by sales growth. Nothing looks better than having your product adopted by a lot of people. How you get there has a lot to do with product design but also the framework of design,…
Automation Analytics
I will dare not attempt to describe analytics or the wonderful work Gartner did in describing the analytics stack. Its been done very well by others. I see a lot of articles about big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. One way to frame the two broad subject matters is…
MBTI quantifying revenue and profit
I no longer like to categorize revenue and profit according to Myers-Briggs. While mbti calculations are interesting they’re very hard to explain to people. What’s the difference between an isfp and intj? how you convert this for Marketing, sales, creative production and product design? The image below is real data…
Market orientation to Product orientation
This presentation is 4 years old but it highlights a few things that remain the same. Please use it carefully as some things might be a little bit dated Market orientation gets the right product: Product orientation get the product right An agile organization combines the progression of value with…