Jobs to Be Done: Theory to Practice

Why do innovation projects fail? Why do an overwhelming majority of new products fail?
In 1991, Anthony Ulwick first proposed a solution to this problem: to gain deep insight into the customer’s needs, companies should stop focusing on the product and the customer and instead should understand the “underlying process” (or job) the customer is trying to execute when they are using a product or service.
This idea led to the creation of Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI) which says that to create a product or service that customers will want to buy, you must first understand what fundamental measures of performance those customers use to measure success when getting the job done. Ulwick introduced ODI to Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen in 1999. Christensen later popularized the theory in his book, The Innovator’s Solution (2003), labeling it “jobs-to-be-done theory” citing Ulwick and Strategyn’s practices. This book is a deep-dive into how to take the theory known as “jobs-to-be-done theory” and put it into practice.
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