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Competing Against Luck
- The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.
How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more than a game of hit and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer.
A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now he goes further, offering powerful new insights. After years of research, Christensen has come to one critical conclusion: Our long-held maxim - that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation - is wrong. Customers don't buy products or services; they "hire" them to do a job. Understanding customers does not drive innovation success, he argues. Understanding customer jobs does. The "Jobs to Be Done" approach can be seen in some of the world's most respected companies and fast-growing startups, including Amazon, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, and Chobani yogurt, to name just a few. But this book is not about celebrating these successes - it's about predicting new ones.
Christensen contends that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products not only that customers want to hire, but for which they'll pay premium prices to bring them into their lives. Jobs theory offers new hope for growth to companies frustrated by their hit and miss efforts.
This book carefully lays down Christensen's provocative framework, providing a comprehensive explanation of the theory and why it is predictive, how to use it in the real world - and, most importantly, how not to squander the insights it provides.
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- Leigh
- 16-06-2017
Great Read, Changed my perspective
one of the top business books I have read this year. Mr. Clayton describes a complete paradigm shift in how we look at and address both market segmentation, product innovation, product roadmap choices and many are the areas of product management.
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- Will Sweet
- 22-04-2022
Very insightful for Marketers.
Amazing overview of the Jobs To Be Done theory and practical applications of it. The theories here are very helpful for drawing out the key insights behind how to build and market products or services. I work in marketing and the JTBD process is invaluable for segmentation, targeting and positioning effectively - essentially the core of marketing anything.
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