Make customer progress your growth engine
What is your challenge?
- Ineffective product development due to unclear customer needs.
- Wasting marketing money due to unawareness of what makes customers buy.
- Losing customers and not knowing why.
So, you think you know customers?
The perception of knowing your target audience is your biggest risk.
Plausibility – deceptive certainty
The belief that your assumptions about customers are plausible gives you a false sense of safety.
According to our analysis, without targeted customer discovery, cognitive biases and blind spots of organizations are significant:
- up to 90% factors that impede the acquisition or use of a new solutions are unknown,
- up to 81% of an organization’s assumptions cannot be validated,
- on average, only 30% of an organization’s assumptions can be confirmed.
Work with insights from the real world
Dramatically increase the validity of your customer knowledge. Adjust your preconceptions, close your knowledge gaps, and lay the foundation for informed decisions.
The plausibility trap - All your assumptions about the market are plausible but you don't know your biases and blind spots.
Focus on information that you really need
Stop wasting time on generic market research. Focus on the data you need to make informed decisions.
Create insights that cover all phases of the customer journey and experiences. Provide product developers, marketers and sales strategists with the data needed in order to
- build the right solution,
- create marketing campaigns that create movement,
- produce buying aids that help close the sale.
Learn about what
- customers want to get done
- desires they have
- pains and gains they experience
- thoughts and emotions drive their journey
- events trigger the next phase of their journey
- constraints make progress difficult to achieve.
Utilize insights out of customer interviews
Learn from the premier source of motivational and contextual information. Rely on an information source you can trust. Use customer interviews and stories to understand the meaning of the customer journey.
Tap into the rich contextual data to extract insights:
- use the greatest unmet needs to determine market potential,
- identify unmet needs to create innovation ideas,
- use motivators and inhibitors to inform marketing and sales.
Stop wasting time on generic research methods that do not provide insigths on the circumstances of customer behavior.
Conduct 45 to 60 min. structured interviews about the acquisition of solutions and/or their experience.
Itemize, categorize, and visualize interview data.
Use insights that only you know for your competitive advantage. Take advantage of a structured approach to turn customer stories into actionable data and focus on insights that matter.
Utilize a structured customer interview process
Get unique benefits when working with a structured approach.
Customer Motivation
Reveal the deep motivation for acquiring products and services.
Actionable Data
Create actionable data for product or service design, marketing, sales, and service.
Meaningful Questions
Create an insightful conversation with the help of effective questions.
360° Perspective
Get unparalled insights into all phases of the customer cycle.
Structured Data
Recognize patterns in the buying process and user experience.
Fast Evaluation
Get rid of the backlog in customer interview evaluations.
Trustworthy Source
Make confident decisions based on the most trustworthy source of information.
Visualized Data
Work with easy-to-understand and navigate visualized data.
Exploit Interviews
Exploit the entire interview content, do not waste precious information.
Structure data for clarity
Itemize interview statements into 12 categories so they become manageable. Identify between 70 and 130 data points per interview. Aggregate, prioritize, and use the data for ideation. Take advantage of our pool of questions to uncover insights you don’t get otherwise.
Structure interview data
- Functional and emotional tasks, customers try to accomplish
- Pains suffered from performing the task
- Gains achieve by performing the task
- Events that trigger the next phase of the customer journey
- Constraints that restrict the customer journey or the use of solutions
- Solutions acquired to make progress
- Pushes that motivate & Habits that keep customers from looking for a new solution
- Pulls that motivate & Anxieties that keep customers from acquiring a new solution
- Desired Outcomes that inspire & Avoidances that discourage customers
Systematically Develop a Customer-Informed Strategy
Align your operations with the customers' needs and beat your competition.
Make JTBD customer interviews the source of your innovation process.
Apply our sprint format and focus on the right things and fast execution.
Customer Progress Design - Our fast-track visual process
We are by your side
Achieve continuous alignment with customers
We help you to develop a customer-centric strategy
Testimonials
Choose Your Starting Point
Do you work for a consulting company, an agency, or a forward-thinking organization? Take the path that is right for you.
Benefit from generating and processing meaningful qualitative data at light speed. Unite your stakeholders behind customer jobs. Create a cohesive product, marketing, and sales strategy. Take advantage of our end-to-end strategy development template, The Wheel of Progress Canvas, and other advanced tools to take decisions with confidence.
Our method in detail
Step 1
Determine Project Scope
Establish initial hypotheses and determine interviewee profiles.
Step 2
Conduct Customer Interviews
Systematically conduct interviews and structure the data.
Step 3
Generalize Interview Data
Cluster and generalize the data.
Step 4
Prioritize Customer Jobs
Prioritize customer jobs according to rational criteria.
Step 5
Develop Strategy Based on Data
Use customer jobs and other data to inform the ideation process.
What is your challenge?
- Ineffective product development due to unclear customer needs.
- Wasting marketing money due to unawareness of what makes customers buy.
- Losing customers and not knowing why.
Then you need to better know what customers care about, what to build and how to sell.
Customer Motivation
Reveal the deep motivation for acquiring products and services.
Actionable Data
Create actionable data for all stakeholder groups.
Meaningful Questions
Use questions that help get the most out of interviews and breakthrough insights.
360° Perspective
Get insights on each phase of the buying cycle.
Structured Data
Itemize and structure qualitative data that can be aggregated easily.
Fast Evaluation
Get rid of lengthy and inefficient interview evaluations.
Trustworthy Source
Use the most trustworthy data – data straight from the source.
Visualized Data
Work with easy-to-understand visualized data.
Exploit Interviews
Exploit the entire interview content, do not waste precious information.
Customer Motivation
Reveal the deep motivation for acquiring products and services.
Actionable Data
Create actionable data for all stakeholder groups.
Meaningful Questions
Use questions that help get the most out of interviews and breakthrough insights.
360° Perspective
Get insights on each phase of the buying cycle.
Structured Data
Itemize and structure qualitative data that can be aggregated easily.
Fast Evaluation
Get rid of lengthy and inefficient interview evaluations.
Trustworthy Source
Use the most trustworthy data – data straight from the source.
Visualized Data
Work with easy-to-understand visualized data.
Exploit Interviews
Exploit the entire interview content, do not waste precious information.
