Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation

by Stephen Wunker, Jessica Wattman, and David Farber

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In a challenging economy filled with multiple competitors, no one can afford to stagnate. Yet, innovation is notoriously difficult. How do you pinpoint the winning ideas that customers will love?

Sifting through purchasing data for clues about what might sell or haphazardly brainstorming ideas are typical strategies. However, innovation expert Stephen Wunker offers the effective Jobs method: determining the drivers of customer behavior--those functional and emotional goals that people want to achieve.

This simple shift in perspective opens up new insights about your customers and a wealth of hidden opportunities. For example, social media newcomer Snapchat used the Jobs process to capture the millennial demographic. By reducing functionality, the company satisfied its users' unmet need to document real life in the moment, without filters and "like" buttons.

Packed with similar examples from every industry, this complete innovation guide explains both foundational concepts and a detailed action plan developed by Wunker and his team.

In Jobs to Be Done, the groundbreaking Jobs Roadmap takes you step-by-step through the innovation process and reveals how to:

  • Gather valuable customer insights
  • Turn those insights into new product ideas
  • Test and iterate until you find original profitable solutions
  • And much more!

Jobs to Be Done gives you a clear-cut framework for thinking about your business, outlines a roadmap for discovering new markets, new products and services, and helps you generate creative opportunities to innovate your way to success.

  • ISBN10 0814438032
  • ISBN13 9780814438039
  • Publish Date 13 April 2018 (first published 7 November 2016)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 8 March 2023
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher HarperCollins Focus
  • Imprint Amacom
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English