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We help clients formulate market growth strategies, develop innovative new
products reliably and predictably, and market them more effectively through
our patented process for defining, collecting, and prioritizing unmet customer
needs. We call this ODI.
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ODI is primarily focused on helping clients with the front end, feeding the
building of the new product business case
Insight is very helpful downstream when doing marketing
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Innovation is the process of devising a solution that satisfies the customer’s
unmet needs
The process is analogous to solving a complex simultaneous equation (needs
and solutions)
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One approach to innovation many companies take is solution-first
Without knowing all the customers unmet needs, companies brainstorm
solutions and concept test them with customers
The equation may never be solved because only a subset of solutions and
unmet needs are considered
When using a solution-first approach, it is only by chance that the optimal
solution will be uncovered
Even if do rapid prototyping, still only test a small set of solutions since time is
always a constraint
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Assess your organization:
- For any given product area in your company, how many people know all the
customer’s needs and which are unmet?
- Is there agreement across functions as to what the customer’s needs are?
- Which are unmet?
- What a customer need is?
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However, there is a gap between what is captured and what is needed
Because companies don’t know what inputs to capture and customers don’t
know what is needed, they offer “requirements” in their own language that is
convenient to them
Companies try to translate this mix of inputs and often get a bunch of vague,
incomplete, in-actionable, or worse, wrong, statements, e.g., make it easy to
use, make it go faster, etc.
What do companies conclude?
- Customers do not know what they want, they cannot articulate their needs
- Therefore, they must have latent needs – needs they don’t know they have
- Customer requirements change quickly over time
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Customer needs must meet two basic principles …
Be based on a measurement system that is instinctive to customers, which
means that it:
- Reflects the customer’s true definition of value
- Has universal/global significance
- Is relevant now and in the future
Have a consistent structure, content, and format so that it:
- Prompts a course of action
- Is not left open to interpretation
- Does not confound the way they are prioritized
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Job is the stable, long-term focal point around which value creation should be
centered
Helping a customer perfectly execute the job is the true definition of value
creation
Must understand what is being measured and controlled by customers to
ensure the job is executed with the speed, predictability, and output the
customer desires, regardless of product used
The statements that describe what must be measured and controlled are the
customers’ desired outcomes
They are customers’ fundamental measures of performance associated with
getting a job done
If want to jump from a 20-30% success rate to 80-90%, you must dramatically
change how you think
Must shift your focus from the product or the customer to the job they are
trying to get done
When the job is accepted as the sole unit of analysis, companies:
- Stop capturing requirements on products and service
- Instead they capture requirements on the jobs that those products or services
are intended to perform
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The job of farming corn has 156 desired outcomes or metrics in total farmers
use to judge how well they have executed this job
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Each statement’s structure, content, and format have been optimized so as to
limit variability
Rules have been developed to ensure the statement
- Is actionable
- Is not open to interpretation
- Does not confound the way it or other statements are prioritized
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When the job is the unit of analysis, customers do not have latent or
unarticulated needs
Customers may not be able to articulate a solution, but they can certainly
articulate what outcomes they want to achieve
For example, before the microwave oven was invented, customers could not
articulate their need for a microwave oven, but they did know they wanted to…
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Since companies struggle to identify a need, they also have a hard time
determining which ones are unmet
As a result, they have a hard time knowing which new ideas are winners, so
they make many small bets
Leading to many initiatives, few successes, and high costs
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When is a need unmet?
If a desired outcome is both important and unsatisfied, it is unmet
The more important and less satisfied an outcome is (the more unmet it is) the
greater it represents an opportunity for value creation
Outcomes are prioritized based on their attractiveness as opportunities for
value creation
We administer a survey to a significant population to determine the importance
of each outcome and the degree to which each is satisfied, given the
solution(s) they are using today
Then use our proprietary opportunity algorithm to calculate what is important
AND poorly satisfied
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As a result of using outcome-driven research methods, companies know
where to place their big bets
They can transform innovation into a predictable discipline and make big bets
with confidence
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Companies do not have to brainstorm hundreds of ideas and hope that one of
them is a breakthrough idea
People know and agree on what needs are unmet
With a focus on specific unmet needs (desired outcomes), individuals are able
to generate ideas they know in advance will be worthy of investment
Outcome-focused idea generation replaces scattershot brainstorming and
systematizes the concept creation process
The dynamics of innovation are changed
Before hiring us, one client had brainstormed over 250 different ideas. After
doing a study, they were able to quickly narrow these down into the top 10
ideas and create a new product concept within days.
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Can leverage the customer insight across different strategic organizational
activities
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Strategyn has worked with many clients across industries
Methodology is applicable to any innovation initiative in any industry
Not focused on the solutions, but the customer needs
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