The document provides a training manual on customer development with 14 rules or guidelines. Some of the key points covered in the rules include: conducting customer development outside the company by talking to potential customers to learn facts; pairing customer development with agile development to iterate based on customer feedback; embracing failure as part of the learning process through experiments and pivots; using a business model canvas to track hypotheses and iterate based on customer validation or rejection; and focusing on passion and speed in decision making. The overall message is that customer development is about turning hypotheses into facts through customer validation, which requires getting outside the building to interact with potential customers.
Lars Holdgaard discusses how to decide what features to build and in what order for a product. He recommends gathering both qualitative feedback from talking directly to customers as well as quantitative data on product usage. This information, along with the overall product vision, can be used to set OKRs and quarterly themes to focus feature development. Themes should solve major blockers or pains identified from customer conversations in order to iteratively improve the product-market fit over time. A quarterly cycle allows being agile while making a meaningful impact.
The document discusses buyer personas and how to create and use them. It defines a buyer persona as a semi-fictional representation of an ideal customer based on real data. It provides a free online tool for creating personas and outlines the steps to develop personas by identifying customer demographics, behaviors, motivations, and goals. The document also discusses how to use personas to improve marketing, sales, and customer service by tailoring content, segmentation, and communications based on the persona.
The document summarizes the process of building and updating B2B personas for Capdesk. Key steps included:
1) Understanding existing personas created by the previous marketing team and validating them against customer data.
2) Updating the personas to remove bias by taking out identifying details like names, genders, and locations.
3) Communicating the new personas to the team, which focused on goals, challenges, and insights rather than stereotypes.
The updated personas will be used to segment audiences, prioritize customer outreach, and guide content and distribution strategies.
Product management comes with responsibility without true authority, requiring difficult decisions based on limited information. It involves juggling many diverse tasks without being an expert in all areas. Some companies improperly use product managers for project management work instead of product work, which does not scale as well. While agile practices can help, they can also overwhelm product managers. Ultimately, even with the right approach, products can still fail through no fault of the product manager. Key skills for product managers include diplomacy, rapport building, negotiation, detailing benefits, seeking feedback, and being comfortable with failure.
1) Product managers are well-suited to be intrapreneurs due to their leadership experience, commercial competence, technical experience, ability to navigate politics, and image of being able to execute.
2) The author provides an example of starting an intrapreneurial project with no direction and limited funding, and building it into a successful business with customers and revenue in under a year.
3) A second example details taking on an impossible mission to capture a landmark customer, investing two years and company resources to redefine the company's strategy and deliver for the customer.
Training manual - Business Model CanvasStartup Braga
The document provides an overview of business models and the Business Model Canvas tool. It describes the Business Model Canvas as having 9 building blocks: customer segments, value propositions, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key resources, key activities, key partnerships, and cost structure. Each block is then defined in more detail. Common business models like long tail, multi-sided platforms, and freemium models are also briefly outlined. The document recommends starting with an idea, structuring it using the Business Model Canvas, testing assumptions, and continuously improving the model.
The document provides a training manual on customer development with 14 rules or guidelines. Some of the key points covered in the rules include: conducting customer development outside the company by talking to potential customers to learn facts; pairing customer development with agile development to iterate based on customer feedback; embracing failure as part of the learning process through experiments and pivots; using a business model canvas to track hypotheses and iterate based on customer validation or rejection; and focusing on passion and speed in decision making. The overall message is that customer development is about turning hypotheses into facts through customer validation, which requires getting outside the building to interact with potential customers.
Lars Holdgaard discusses how to decide what features to build and in what order for a product. He recommends gathering both qualitative feedback from talking directly to customers as well as quantitative data on product usage. This information, along with the overall product vision, can be used to set OKRs and quarterly themes to focus feature development. Themes should solve major blockers or pains identified from customer conversations in order to iteratively improve the product-market fit over time. A quarterly cycle allows being agile while making a meaningful impact.
The document discusses buyer personas and how to create and use them. It defines a buyer persona as a semi-fictional representation of an ideal customer based on real data. It provides a free online tool for creating personas and outlines the steps to develop personas by identifying customer demographics, behaviors, motivations, and goals. The document also discusses how to use personas to improve marketing, sales, and customer service by tailoring content, segmentation, and communications based on the persona.
The document summarizes the process of building and updating B2B personas for Capdesk. Key steps included:
1) Understanding existing personas created by the previous marketing team and validating them against customer data.
2) Updating the personas to remove bias by taking out identifying details like names, genders, and locations.
3) Communicating the new personas to the team, which focused on goals, challenges, and insights rather than stereotypes.
The updated personas will be used to segment audiences, prioritize customer outreach, and guide content and distribution strategies.
Product management comes with responsibility without true authority, requiring difficult decisions based on limited information. It involves juggling many diverse tasks without being an expert in all areas. Some companies improperly use product managers for project management work instead of product work, which does not scale as well. While agile practices can help, they can also overwhelm product managers. Ultimately, even with the right approach, products can still fail through no fault of the product manager. Key skills for product managers include diplomacy, rapport building, negotiation, detailing benefits, seeking feedback, and being comfortable with failure.
1) Product managers are well-suited to be intrapreneurs due to their leadership experience, commercial competence, technical experience, ability to navigate politics, and image of being able to execute.
2) The author provides an example of starting an intrapreneurial project with no direction and limited funding, and building it into a successful business with customers and revenue in under a year.
3) A second example details taking on an impossible mission to capture a landmark customer, investing two years and company resources to redefine the company's strategy and deliver for the customer.
Training manual - Business Model CanvasStartup Braga
The document provides an overview of business models and the Business Model Canvas tool. It describes the Business Model Canvas as having 9 building blocks: customer segments, value propositions, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key resources, key activities, key partnerships, and cost structure. Each block is then defined in more detail. Common business models like long tail, multi-sided platforms, and freemium models are also briefly outlined. The document recommends starting with an idea, structuring it using the Business Model Canvas, testing assumptions, and continuously improving the model.
This document provides guidance on creating an effective pitch deck for fundraising. It outlines key questions to answer in the deck, such as describing the problem being solved, the solution, product details, traction to date, the market opportunity and financial projections. Sections should tell a story and convince the viewer that the company will be successful in solving an important problem. The deck should also introduce the founding team and their relevant experience.
Lean UX is a combination of Lean Startup, Agile and UX methodologies that aims to shorten product development cycles and increase success rates. It advocates for building digital products through small, iterative releases rather than big bang launches. This allows teams to validate assumptions and hypotheses with customers early to learn quickly and reduce risks. Key Lean UX practices include lightweight personas, rapid prototyping, customer conversations, collaboration across teams, and validated learning through experimentation and data collection.
This document provides guidance on designing and validating customer personas through primary research methods like interviews and surveys. It discusses choosing a target customer segment and finding those customers through online forums, social media, introductions, and focus groups. Validation methods covered include ethnography, netnography, surveys, and interviews. Key tips for interviews emphasize adopting a beginner's mindset, listening more than talking, asking factual questions not opinions, focusing on learning not selling, and keeping doors open to find more potential customers to speak with. Sample interview questions aim to uncover customer needs, pain points, wishes, and responsibilities.
Startup Braga - value proposition workshopStartup Braga
The document provides information on building an innovative value proposition. It defines a business as creating and delivering value that people want and are willing to pay for. It discusses traditional versus disruptive thinking, with disruptive thinking focusing on the "why" rather than just the product. It introduces design thinking and the design thinking process. It also discusses finding customer wants and needs, validating problems as urgent, unavoidable, unworkable and underserved to determine if the problem is a good market opportunity. The overall document provides guidance on developing an innovative value proposition that solves customer problems.
Scott Stonehocker, Intuit. How to build a culture of customer obsessionIT Arena
Scott is known for building high functioning product teams and driving a culture of customer-centricity. Originally from Canada, he is currently leading product and innovation in Paris France. The teams are constantly looking for the biggest customer pains, then testing and developing solutions to solve them quickly.
This document outlines the key components of an effective startup pitch deck, including an elevator pitch, defining the problem and solution, describing the market size and business model, discussing competitors and marketing strategy, introducing the team, providing traction data and projections, and specifying funding needs. The pitch deck guide emphasizes concisely communicating the problem the startup aims to solve, how it differs from competitors, and its potential for growth and return on investment.
This document provides a checklist for optimizing an AngelList startup profile, highlighting 10 key points to focus on: 1) Keep text short and mobile-optimized, 2) Have a catchy 5-word pitch, 3) Select relevant markets and locations, 4) Showcase your product with screenshots and customer problem, 5) Explain your tech architecture and challenges, 6) Focus on founders' functional roles not resumes, 7) Demonstrate traction and momentum, 8) Include funding details and urgency to invest, 9) Show influential investors, 10) Provide a demo that shows on mobile. The goal is to make investors want to take a meeting.
Design thinking and lean startup are both human-centered approaches to innovation that focus on integrating customer needs. The lean startup approach emphasizes rapid iteration to validate hypotheses through minimum viable products and customer feedback, while pivoting when needed. It involves three stages - problem/solution fit, product/market fit, and scaling. The goal is to minimize time spent learning by testing ideas quickly with customers.
This document provides a guide for startups participating in a hackathon on how to structure an effective pitch. It recommends including slides on introducing your team, explaining the customer problem and pain points, presenting your solution and demo, outlining your business model and how you will generate revenue, defining the target market and competitors, detailing an execution plan covering marketing strategy, finance projections, and timelines, and summarizing before thanking the audience. The overall goal is to tell the story of your customers' problems, showcase your prototype solution, and explain how you will commercialize and scale your business.
This document provides a template for a pitch deck that introduces a company and its idea in a concise manner. It recommends including sections that identify the problem the company solves through 3 customer pain points, 3 solutions, and 3 validating statistics. Additional sections should describe the market size and opportunity, product details, business model, market adoption strategy, competition analysis, long-term competitive advantages, financial projections, and biographies of the founding team. The overall goal is to clearly pitch the company's value proposition and qualifications to investors in under 10 minutes.
Slides from PSV Academy StartupTalk #29 - Demystifying Data-Driven Sales Appr...PreSeed Ventures
The document summarizes an upcoming PSV Academy event that will demystify data-driven sales approaches. The event will consist of presentations on using outbound B2B sales approaches with a data-driven mindset, how to use data to improve B2B sales, and a live Q&A session. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions in the Q&A, upvote their favorite questions, and sign up for the Open Door program. The goal of the event is to help tech founders and startups accelerate their ideas using data-driven sales approaches.
Slides from PSV Academy StartupTalk #30 - Founder's Guide to the First Sales ...PreSeed Ventures
The document provides guidance for startup founders on hiring their first sales employee. It discusses why the first sales hire is important, including bringing needed skills to the founding team. It profiles two companies that hired salespeople and the considerations they made. It then offers general learnings from over 400 startup journeys around sales hiring. Key takeaways include being agile in sales hiring, understanding the salesperson's role may differ from mature companies, and that there is no single right approach as circumstances vary between startups. The document emphasizes the first sales hire as an important step but one that requires founders to thoughtfully prepare their sales process and messaging.
This document summarizes a presentation on building B2B buyer personas. It introduces the topic and speakers for the event. Nicolaj Højer Nielsen will provide a 10-minute introduction on B2B buyer personas. Caragh Kennedy from Hubspot will then present on how to build your own B2B buyer personas and take live questions. Scarlett Pierce from Capdesk will speak about building buyer personas at their company. A final live Q&A session will feature Scarlett and Nicolaj answering questions on how to build B2B buyer personas.
174 Lean, not Mean, Product Strategies for EntrepreneursProductCamp Boston
Presenter: Rodan Zadeh
Product Strategy is a balancing act between creation of products which are valued by customers, delivering market-fit and capturing value created by these products. This session will introduce key components of product strategy intended for product owners and is based on Lean Startup concept. Key frameworks and strategies that have propelled entrepreneurial success will be discussed.
Rodan Zadeh is the instructor and developer of product strategy curriculum taught to entrepreneurs at his company's incubator. A graduate of MIT Sloan, Rodan has devoted over 20 years in delivering innovative products to high tech industries. He has led entrepreneurial teams in small startups and fortune 100 organizations. With this experience, Rodan brings a special perspective on management of innovations to entrepreneurs. He lives in Boston with his wife and kids.
Startup Workshops - Practical Workshops for StartupsPeter van Sabben
The document describes startup workshops that focus on practical skills rather than talks. It discusses organizing workshops that:
1) Pre-select the right participants based on their startup stage to ensure the workshops target the right audience.
2) Use experienced startup founders and industry specialists as trainers rather than one-person keynotes.
3) Involve only practical, actionable workshops tailored to participants' situations rather than general talks.
The goal is to help startups succeed by developing their skills in technology, business, and UX design through better education.
A simple and free pitch deck template that can be used as a starting point for your perfect product or company pitch. You can use it to raise money or to pitch your idea internally.
Its also a great way of just testing your startup idea for yourself. Will you be able to convince yourself using this pitch deck?
Loosely based on the famous Guy Kawasaki 10 slides pitch deck with some examples added from famous startups.
Created by Oskar Glauser, Glauser Creative.
Glauser Creative helps startups, businesses and global companies to innovate using design, strategy and technology.
https://glauser.com
The document provides do's and don'ts for customer visits based on the author's experience conducting over 300 customer visits across 10 countries. Some key recommendations include using visits to discover unmet customer needs rather than to forecast sales or close deals, qualifying visitors in advance, preparing by researching customers, listening without bias, and reporting qualitative findings rather than quantitative conclusions. The goal is to explore customers' experiences and needs rather than confirm existing opinions.
This document discusses customer personas and market validation. It begins with an introduction of the presenter, Gigi Wang, and her background. The bulk of the document then discusses identifying customers and their personas through research and segmentation. It emphasizes understanding customers' needs and behaviors to develop fictional representations of ideal customers. The goal is to help startups focus on specific customer segments for product development, marketing, and sales.
We love our ideas so we work hard to develop and improve them.
That's a beautiful journey while our dreams come true!
But how to avoid mistakes? How to organize our thoughts? How to focus on the right things?
And why we shouldn't focus on our solution?
Our workshop will be the intro to Lean Startup & Lean Canvas - a very powerful tool to describe our business models & ideas.
Contact me for more info:
joanna@projectpeople.pl
UX STRAT USA 2017: Jim Kalbach, "Using Jobs To Be Done to Create High-Value P...UX STRAT
This document provides an overview of the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework for understanding customer needs and designing products and services. It outlines a process for discovering, defining, designing, delivering, and developing value using JTBD, including exercises for formulating jobs, creating job maps, writing job stories, and speaking to the market in terms of jobs. The document emphasizes starting with customer goals and problems rather than solutions, and shifting perspective to see opportunities from the customer's point of view.
Building products that solve human needs 101Ryan Lou
An introduction to validation methods for early stage startup ideas. Delivered to students from the National University of Singapore Overseas College program.
Martyn is a creative technical director and product strategist with over 20 years of experience in digital technology. His approach is creative, collaborative, and instinctively lean. He is the head of product at UBXD, a company that provides workshops and consulting services to help businesses develop products using lean startup and design thinking methodologies.
This document provides guidance on creating an effective pitch deck for fundraising. It outlines key questions to answer in the deck, such as describing the problem being solved, the solution, product details, traction to date, the market opportunity and financial projections. Sections should tell a story and convince the viewer that the company will be successful in solving an important problem. The deck should also introduce the founding team and their relevant experience.
Lean UX is a combination of Lean Startup, Agile and UX methodologies that aims to shorten product development cycles and increase success rates. It advocates for building digital products through small, iterative releases rather than big bang launches. This allows teams to validate assumptions and hypotheses with customers early to learn quickly and reduce risks. Key Lean UX practices include lightweight personas, rapid prototyping, customer conversations, collaboration across teams, and validated learning through experimentation and data collection.
This document provides guidance on designing and validating customer personas through primary research methods like interviews and surveys. It discusses choosing a target customer segment and finding those customers through online forums, social media, introductions, and focus groups. Validation methods covered include ethnography, netnography, surveys, and interviews. Key tips for interviews emphasize adopting a beginner's mindset, listening more than talking, asking factual questions not opinions, focusing on learning not selling, and keeping doors open to find more potential customers to speak with. Sample interview questions aim to uncover customer needs, pain points, wishes, and responsibilities.
Startup Braga - value proposition workshopStartup Braga
The document provides information on building an innovative value proposition. It defines a business as creating and delivering value that people want and are willing to pay for. It discusses traditional versus disruptive thinking, with disruptive thinking focusing on the "why" rather than just the product. It introduces design thinking and the design thinking process. It also discusses finding customer wants and needs, validating problems as urgent, unavoidable, unworkable and underserved to determine if the problem is a good market opportunity. The overall document provides guidance on developing an innovative value proposition that solves customer problems.
Scott Stonehocker, Intuit. How to build a culture of customer obsessionIT Arena
Scott is known for building high functioning product teams and driving a culture of customer-centricity. Originally from Canada, he is currently leading product and innovation in Paris France. The teams are constantly looking for the biggest customer pains, then testing and developing solutions to solve them quickly.
This document outlines the key components of an effective startup pitch deck, including an elevator pitch, defining the problem and solution, describing the market size and business model, discussing competitors and marketing strategy, introducing the team, providing traction data and projections, and specifying funding needs. The pitch deck guide emphasizes concisely communicating the problem the startup aims to solve, how it differs from competitors, and its potential for growth and return on investment.
This document provides a checklist for optimizing an AngelList startup profile, highlighting 10 key points to focus on: 1) Keep text short and mobile-optimized, 2) Have a catchy 5-word pitch, 3) Select relevant markets and locations, 4) Showcase your product with screenshots and customer problem, 5) Explain your tech architecture and challenges, 6) Focus on founders' functional roles not resumes, 7) Demonstrate traction and momentum, 8) Include funding details and urgency to invest, 9) Show influential investors, 10) Provide a demo that shows on mobile. The goal is to make investors want to take a meeting.
Design thinking and lean startup are both human-centered approaches to innovation that focus on integrating customer needs. The lean startup approach emphasizes rapid iteration to validate hypotheses through minimum viable products and customer feedback, while pivoting when needed. It involves three stages - problem/solution fit, product/market fit, and scaling. The goal is to minimize time spent learning by testing ideas quickly with customers.
This document provides a guide for startups participating in a hackathon on how to structure an effective pitch. It recommends including slides on introducing your team, explaining the customer problem and pain points, presenting your solution and demo, outlining your business model and how you will generate revenue, defining the target market and competitors, detailing an execution plan covering marketing strategy, finance projections, and timelines, and summarizing before thanking the audience. The overall goal is to tell the story of your customers' problems, showcase your prototype solution, and explain how you will commercialize and scale your business.
This document provides a template for a pitch deck that introduces a company and its idea in a concise manner. It recommends including sections that identify the problem the company solves through 3 customer pain points, 3 solutions, and 3 validating statistics. Additional sections should describe the market size and opportunity, product details, business model, market adoption strategy, competition analysis, long-term competitive advantages, financial projections, and biographies of the founding team. The overall goal is to clearly pitch the company's value proposition and qualifications to investors in under 10 minutes.
Slides from PSV Academy StartupTalk #29 - Demystifying Data-Driven Sales Appr...PreSeed Ventures
The document summarizes an upcoming PSV Academy event that will demystify data-driven sales approaches. The event will consist of presentations on using outbound B2B sales approaches with a data-driven mindset, how to use data to improve B2B sales, and a live Q&A session. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions in the Q&A, upvote their favorite questions, and sign up for the Open Door program. The goal of the event is to help tech founders and startups accelerate their ideas using data-driven sales approaches.
Slides from PSV Academy StartupTalk #30 - Founder's Guide to the First Sales ...PreSeed Ventures
The document provides guidance for startup founders on hiring their first sales employee. It discusses why the first sales hire is important, including bringing needed skills to the founding team. It profiles two companies that hired salespeople and the considerations they made. It then offers general learnings from over 400 startup journeys around sales hiring. Key takeaways include being agile in sales hiring, understanding the salesperson's role may differ from mature companies, and that there is no single right approach as circumstances vary between startups. The document emphasizes the first sales hire as an important step but one that requires founders to thoughtfully prepare their sales process and messaging.
This document summarizes a presentation on building B2B buyer personas. It introduces the topic and speakers for the event. Nicolaj Højer Nielsen will provide a 10-minute introduction on B2B buyer personas. Caragh Kennedy from Hubspot will then present on how to build your own B2B buyer personas and take live questions. Scarlett Pierce from Capdesk will speak about building buyer personas at their company. A final live Q&A session will feature Scarlett and Nicolaj answering questions on how to build B2B buyer personas.
174 Lean, not Mean, Product Strategies for EntrepreneursProductCamp Boston
Presenter: Rodan Zadeh
Product Strategy is a balancing act between creation of products which are valued by customers, delivering market-fit and capturing value created by these products. This session will introduce key components of product strategy intended for product owners and is based on Lean Startup concept. Key frameworks and strategies that have propelled entrepreneurial success will be discussed.
Rodan Zadeh is the instructor and developer of product strategy curriculum taught to entrepreneurs at his company's incubator. A graduate of MIT Sloan, Rodan has devoted over 20 years in delivering innovative products to high tech industries. He has led entrepreneurial teams in small startups and fortune 100 organizations. With this experience, Rodan brings a special perspective on management of innovations to entrepreneurs. He lives in Boston with his wife and kids.
Startup Workshops - Practical Workshops for StartupsPeter van Sabben
The document describes startup workshops that focus on practical skills rather than talks. It discusses organizing workshops that:
1) Pre-select the right participants based on their startup stage to ensure the workshops target the right audience.
2) Use experienced startup founders and industry specialists as trainers rather than one-person keynotes.
3) Involve only practical, actionable workshops tailored to participants' situations rather than general talks.
The goal is to help startups succeed by developing their skills in technology, business, and UX design through better education.
A simple and free pitch deck template that can be used as a starting point for your perfect product or company pitch. You can use it to raise money or to pitch your idea internally.
Its also a great way of just testing your startup idea for yourself. Will you be able to convince yourself using this pitch deck?
Loosely based on the famous Guy Kawasaki 10 slides pitch deck with some examples added from famous startups.
Created by Oskar Glauser, Glauser Creative.
Glauser Creative helps startups, businesses and global companies to innovate using design, strategy and technology.
https://glauser.com
The document provides do's and don'ts for customer visits based on the author's experience conducting over 300 customer visits across 10 countries. Some key recommendations include using visits to discover unmet customer needs rather than to forecast sales or close deals, qualifying visitors in advance, preparing by researching customers, listening without bias, and reporting qualitative findings rather than quantitative conclusions. The goal is to explore customers' experiences and needs rather than confirm existing opinions.
This document discusses customer personas and market validation. It begins with an introduction of the presenter, Gigi Wang, and her background. The bulk of the document then discusses identifying customers and their personas through research and segmentation. It emphasizes understanding customers' needs and behaviors to develop fictional representations of ideal customers. The goal is to help startups focus on specific customer segments for product development, marketing, and sales.
We love our ideas so we work hard to develop and improve them.
That's a beautiful journey while our dreams come true!
But how to avoid mistakes? How to organize our thoughts? How to focus on the right things?
And why we shouldn't focus on our solution?
Our workshop will be the intro to Lean Startup & Lean Canvas - a very powerful tool to describe our business models & ideas.
Contact me for more info:
joanna@projectpeople.pl
UX STRAT USA 2017: Jim Kalbach, "Using Jobs To Be Done to Create High-Value P...UX STRAT
This document provides an overview of the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework for understanding customer needs and designing products and services. It outlines a process for discovering, defining, designing, delivering, and developing value using JTBD, including exercises for formulating jobs, creating job maps, writing job stories, and speaking to the market in terms of jobs. The document emphasizes starting with customer goals and problems rather than solutions, and shifting perspective to see opportunities from the customer's point of view.
Building products that solve human needs 101Ryan Lou
An introduction to validation methods for early stage startup ideas. Delivered to students from the National University of Singapore Overseas College program.
Martyn is a creative technical director and product strategist with over 20 years of experience in digital technology. His approach is creative, collaborative, and instinctively lean. He is the head of product at UBXD, a company that provides workshops and consulting services to help businesses develop products using lean startup and design thinking methodologies.
The document outlines essential steps and creative tools for generating a digital business idea. It discusses 7 steps to idea generation: 1) become an idea detective by noticing problems, 2) get creativity flowing through research, 3) think of admired digital businesses, 4) consider personal problems, 5) synthesize other ideas, 6) brainstorm solutions, and 7) narrow ideas. It also describes 4 creative tools: brainstorming, brainwriting, random input, and SCAMPER. Finally, it stresses the importance of defining the digital business idea.
The document discusses design thinking and its application in banking. It outlines the phases of design thinking - empathy, define, ideate, prototype, and test. Examples are provided of how banks like Citi Bank, Bank of America, and ING Bank have successfully applied design thinking to improve customer experience and increase savings. Design thinking helps banks address customer pain points in a user-centric way and develop innovative solutions through prototyping and testing ideas with customers.
[DevDay2019] Lean UX - By Bryant Castro, Bryant Castro at WizelineDevDay.org
Lean UX helps teams build the minimal product necessary to validate risky assumptions and minimize the time to market with the right product. On this lecture, Lean UX principles and its value to the product cycle will be introduced. Also, the methods and tools that will help you get feedback from users and learn rapidly will be discussed. This session is geared towards those who are interested in UX but have no much experience, those looking for new methods to improve their current product processes, and anyone interested in design, business, and user centered design.
Presentation for Agile Australia Conference 2013. Introducing Lean Startup concepts in a way accessible to people used to usual project management methods. With lean startup you don't assume you know the end state required, (as you do with a project), you assume you need to focus on learning to discover the end state to solve the problem you area you looking at.
One Africa Network Webinar: Design Thinking and Innovation - Staying Ahead o...SSCG Consulting
On Thursday 30 July 2020, One Africa Network (OAN) live discussion webcast on Design Thinking and Innovation: Staying Ahead of the Curve to discuss and share thoughts, experiences, perspectives and solutions on innovative ways to transform for growth, design thinking application, new innovative way to problems solving and generating innovative ideas.
Panel speakers included:
- Dr Chloe Sharp - Marketing Director at Combine AI
- Alae Ismail - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager at Imperial College London
- Genevieve Leveille - Principal Founder and CEO of AgriLedger, Innovative Entrepreneur and 2019 FT Top 100 BAME in Technology in UK
- Nick Jankel - Founder and CEO of Switch On: The Transformational Leadership and Life Enterprise, Co-Founder and Chairperson, FutureMakers and Visiting Lecturer at Yale University, Sciences Po, UC Berkeley, LBS, Oxford University, UCL
- Dr William Murithi FHEA. - Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at De Montfort University
- Georgie Manly - Senior Innovation Consultant at Human Innovation
Design Thinking Workshop
an introduction to MBA Students at HEC Montréal, QC, Canada
Key Note - Why we need to change how we solve problems
What is Design Thinking, how is it applied, what are the key success factors
In Practice - a vision for 2025 of e-commerce
Agilityfest 2018 agile and design mod for publicPhil Barrett
- How and why do human-centred design and agile work together, in a corporate context.
- Create a product vision before you start agile development. It's not BDUF and it will save you a lot of time. Before you can course-correct, you need a course!
- A few simple points about how designers and developers work together effectively during implementation, especially on complex, legacy systems.
- And some notes about what to do when you REALLY can't get contact with your customers.
Sparking Innovation in Indian children by helping them to tinkerAnjali Malpani
This document summarizes an innovation challenge hosted by Bibox Labs between October and December 2020 for kids aged 11-15. The challenge encouraged participants to design technological innovations to help grandparents overcome problems. Over 300 kids registered, and the top 6 ideas were selected to receive mentoring to build prototypes. Three winners were ultimately chosen based on their prototypes and presentations, and received prizes including a 3D printer. The challenge aimed to help kids develop skills like problem-solving while creating useful tools for seniors.
This presentation provides guidance on brainstorming digital business ideas. It discusses the importance of digital businesses due to the convenience and accessibility they provide consumers. It then offers several steps to help identify a digital business idea, such as examining one's own skills, keeping up with current events to find opportunities, inventing new products/services, adding value to existing products, investigating other markets, and developing ideas related to growing social movements. Finally, it lists some key enablers for generating ideas, like taking breaks to allow creativity, changing environments, limiting distractions, and maintaining a fun atmosphere.
Design Thinking Bootcamp - General Assembly - Mike BiggsMike Biggs GAICD
In increasingly complex times, innovation and collaboration skills are becoming vital to businesses, and both principles are essential in Design Thinking. This hands-on workshop will lead you through the design thinking process, taught by a design thinking professional that lives and breathes in this space.
This two-part workshop series will introduce the fundamentals of human-centered design and how this approach can help develop innovative solutions for the complex challenges we face as businesspeople, creatives and entrepreneurs.
During the fast paced sessions, you will be introduced to user centred design principles at the research, ideation and idea synthesis stage of the the design thinking process.
We'll cover the theory then workshop through the practical aspects of each of the stages the the core Design Thinking process. Learn how to conduct simple user research studies and how to implement research-driven insights to help make better decisions and product improvements. Also covering the concept of convergent/divergent thinking, rapid problem solving and prototyping, and collaborative design. Students will also be introduced to key practical tools which are integral in the process such as research collection tools, distributed design collaboration, web based prototyping, and testing/measuring.
Outcomes
- Understand how to apply human-centered design principles to tackle complex challenges.
- Identify new ways to serve and support people by uncovering latent needs, behaviours, and desires.
- Learn specific techniques and tools to improve research, ideation, and prototyping.
The document provides information about the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Competition 2023. It invites students ages 16-25 to design tech solutions that address themes like education, sustainability, diversity and social isolation. Students are guided through the design thinking process of finding a problem, researching users, developing ideas, prototyping a solution, and getting feedback. Winners will receive cash prizes and mentorship to help advance their ideas. The deadline to submit an entry is December 18, 2022.
The document provides information about the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Competition 2023. It invites students ages 16-25 to design tech solutions that address themes like education, sustainability, diversity and social isolation. Students are guided through the design thinking process of finding a problem, researching users, developing ideas, prototyping a solution, and getting feedback. Winners will receive cash prizes and mentorship to help advance their ideas. The deadline to submit an entry is December 18, 2022.
The document discusses lean entrepreneurial ideation and developing lean ideas. It begins with an agenda for the meeting which includes introductions, reviewing lean methodology, a lean case study, what makes an entrepreneurial idea, and homework. It then discusses what a lean entrepreneurial idea is by coming up with solutions quickly using minimal resources. A case study of Trippything is presented which developed a travel planning app in a lean way through quick design, testing, and learning rather than a traditional lengthy development process. The document emphasizes that ideas are not as important as execution and provides exercises to generate new ideas through modifying existing products or services. It concludes with discussing resources, inspiration for lean development, and assigning homework.
This document provides an overview of an entrepreneurship session that took place on September 25th, 2019 in Lisbon. The session focused on how everyone can be an entrepreneur. It included outlines on why entrepreneurship is important, why startups fail, finding business ideas, designing business models, mitigating risks, and next steps. Participants were assigned tasks to research reasons for business failure, find business ideas, and read required materials in preparation for an upcoming quiz. The session provided exercises on identifying barriers to entrepreneurship and developing initial business ideas through a business idea canvas. It also covered how to form effective startup teams with complementary personalities, nationalities, genders, and skills.
How to build a startup new frontiers 2017Raomal Perera
This document provides an overview of strategy and business models for a startup module. It introduces concepts like identifying customer problems, developing minimum viable products, and qualitatively and quantitatively validating solutions. It discusses frameworks like the business model canvas and value proposition canvas that can be used to organize thinking and gather customer feedback. Finally, it covers examining the business environment including trends, market forces, macroeconomic factors and industry forces that influence business models. The goal is to help students build successful startups by first discovering problems and then inventing, designing and building business models to solve them.
Want to start a business but don’t have a good idea? Let us show you were the best ideas in the world came from. It’s easier than you may think.
Agenda Topics
- How to start a business with no business idea?
- Turning the search for ideas upside down.
- Going on idea hunt – several real life stories
- Crafting a skill and interest based target map for your search
- The “yellow Book” a problem list with important personal criteria
- Idea selection process
Agile methodologies have quickly become central to the way we create and refine digital products. These rapid cycles of building, measuring, and learning are great for refining an already innovative product but these tools are being increasingly called upon to produce innovation itself and they suck at it.
In this high-level, philosophical talk, Scott draws from 25+ years of experience in digital product strategy and design to take a critical and sometimes controversial look at processes that claim to promote innovation but too often fail to deliver.
He also highlights some principles and practices that seem to promote real innovation and help it survive the perilous journey from the minds of innovators to the hands and hearts of users.
This document provides tips for starting a startup. It recommends understanding why you want to start a startup before considering how, as the reality is often difficult with long hours and stress. It suggests finding an idea that combines what the world needs with your own passions and skills. When choosing a cofounder, look for someone who complements your strengths and fills the needed roles for the business. Most importantly, focus on execution - launch early and work towards exceptional growth through frequent, quality updates and improvements.
Artificial Intelligence in Sci-Fi and Reality (Business Lens)Panji Prabowo
Materi ini saya sampaikan di Block71 Bandung pada acara UXID Public Discussion dengan tema Artificial Intelligence in Our Everyday Life yang diselenggarakan pada 18 Januari 2019.
The document discusses marketing in the digital age. It provides an overview stating that companies must be seen as relevant to customers to survive and that marketing gets customers to believe a company's products are important and offer better value than competitors. It also discusses how marketers must adapt to changes in technology, competition, and new ways to connect with customers through social media. The document outlines the marketing funnel process and key stages of awareness, consideration, conversion, loyalty, and advocacy. It closes by noting metrics like marketing budget versus revenue and customer acquisition cost versus lifetime value are important for data-driven marketing.
How to choose the best business model?
Materi yang saya sampaikan di acara KOPI CHAT yang diselenggarakan oleh Innovation Factory dan BLOCK71 pada 12 April 2018.
Bagaimana mendapatkan modal usaha, modal bisnis, investor, kredit bank. 5 Langkah mendapatkan investor. Disampaikan pada 24 oktober 2012 dalam forum bisnis.
Dokumen tersebut memberikan panduan untuk mengumpulkan dana dari sponsor untuk acara. Ini mencakup pembentukan tim, perumusan sasaran dana dan sponsor, pembuatan proposal dan timeline, presentasi kepada calon sponsor, serta contoh dialog persuasif. Ringkasan memberikan gambaran tingkat tinggi tentang proses pengumpulan dana dari sponsor.
Start a Business with Business Model CanvasPanji Prabowo
Materi ini disampaikan di Techno Entrepreneur Club pada 29 September 2012.
tentang bagaimana start-up atau pebisnis mula memanfaatkan business model canvas untuk menuangkan idenya.
Sekilas Intermediator Teknologi Koridor Jawa BaratPanji Prabowo
Dokumen tersebut membahas tentang Intermediator Teknologi di Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi Republik Indonesia yang berfungsi untuk mencari kebutuhan teknologi industri lokal, menawarkan teknologi baru, memberikan konsultasi pengembangan bisnis dan produk, serta membantu pemerintah daerah dan pemangku kepentingan lainnya dalam pengembangan industri berbasis teknologi. Dokumen tersebut juga memperkenalkan dua orang intermediator
8. ““Most startups fail, not because they fail to build what
they set out to build, but because they waste time,
money, and effort building the wrong product”
Ash Maurya
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14. ““Both approaches take an idea to product in the
fastest way possible, but the key difference is
where the product appears in the innovation cycle”
Richard Perez
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15. 15
Lean Startup
▧ The lean startup approach is to
begin with a minimum viable
product, and make small, fast
incremental changes to evolve the
design after receiving feedback
from the users.
▧ Lean startup is about minimising
waste, so you’ll have say two or
three founders working to develop
a product. They will work to prove
an idea.
16. 16
Design Thinking
▧ Establish the need for a product or
service; understanding a customer’s
underlying problem, rather than
presenting them with a solution
built from the developer’s vision-
based assumptions.
▧ Emphasises user desirability and
identifies potential blind spots
within the founder’s understanding,
or assumptions the founder is
making.
18. 18
General Electric: CT, X-
RAY, MRI
PROBLEMS
Children perceive the procedure as stressful
CHALLENGE
Make the trip to the hospital enjoyable for
kids
SOLUTION
Kids adventure experience
19. 19
AirBnB: Failing Startup
PROBLEMS
In 2009, Airbnb was close to going bust
CHALLENGE
Get more traction, increase revenue FAST!
SOLUTION
It's Okay to Do Things That Don’t Scale:
Replace the amateur photography with
beautiful high-resolution pictures
22. Define the need/problems, before the “existing” solution
▧ I need something to carry the money,
identity card, debit/credit card when I
go outside
▧ I need something to remove creaces
from my clothes after the laundry
▧ I need something to …….
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23. ▧ I need something to carry the money,
identity card, debit/credit card when I
go outside
▧ I need something to remove creaces
from my clothes after the laundry
▧ I need something to …….
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Redesign the Solution
26. 26
1. Chaotic flow
2. Long waiting
time
3. CALO
1. Information
Display
2. Queue
Remotely
3. Get
Numbers and
Estimation
Manual &
Electronic
Queue
Machine
Virtual
queueing
system
People can
queue from
anywhere and
anytime
1. Information
Display
2. Queue
Remotely:
Estimation
3. Analysis
Mobile Apps
Urban people
Bandung
citizen
Patient of the
hospital/health
care institution
Development Membership
App
Premium SMSServer
People
Back in 2017
28. 28
Problem /
Solution Fit
Product / Launch
Fit
Product / Market
Fit
Do I Have Problem Worth
Solving?
Can I deliver basic
product fast?
Have I Built Something
People Want?
Focus: Validated Learning
Experiment: Pivot
Terrain: Qualitative
29. Do I Have Problem Worth
Solving?
Can I deliver basic
product fast?
Have I Built Something
People Want?
Focus: Validated Learning
Experiment: Pivot
Terrain: Qualitative
29
Problem /
Solution Fit
Product / Launch
Fit
Product / Market
Fit
31. Credits
▧ Design thinking vs lean startup; If you build it, will they
come? - Solution Space (Mar 16, 2017)
▧ Why Lean Canvas vs Business Model Canvas? - Ash
Maurya (Feb 28, 2012)
▧ How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing
Startup to a Billion Dollar Business
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