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  VALUE PROPOSITION  LEARNING CX SERIES JANUARY 17. 2024 @BENNOLOEWENBERG Added

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“Hej AI: how does a really good Value Proposition look like ?”

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Source: Dall·E

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Source: Midjourney

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“Hej AI: Show me how it is done”

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Source: Dall·E

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Source: Midjourney

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@BennoLoewenberg “Take a deep breath and go through it step by step” ( prompting hack for ChatGPT )

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Source: Yuicero

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Source: Bloomberg Sole product feature can easily be superseded manually …

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Source: Otto Waalkes – Tomatobrotomat … resembling a 1970s joke about a huge & completely useless food processor

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Sources: Kale&Me, Yuicery, Dean&David ignoring a market with a plethora of alternative offerings

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  PRODUCT FAILURE  Source: Holger Eggert “There are thousands of products out there  that nobody asked for.  How can we make sure we build something  that people actually need ?”

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BUSINESS MARKET Graphic: @BennoLoewenberg CUSTOMER PRODUCT SERVICE VALUE Focus & Goal

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  »TO TEST IF YOUR PRODUCT IS NEEDED,    STUDY THE JOB THAT IT DOES«  Source: Des Traynor

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  VALUE PROPOSITION  Source: Clayton Christensen “Think of the Value Proposition as a contract between the customer and your company where the customer ‘hires’ your company to solve a problem.”

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Source: Huggies

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Source: Dyhana Scarano   VAGUE ASSUMPTIONS  “I’ve experienced this problem, so others must also” “We’ve already got funding, so it must be a good idea” “We’re almost ready to launch so it’s a bit late to go back  to research”

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Graphic: @BennoLoewenberg aft. Toxboe, Perri, Kalbach   CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE  Product User Problem Space Solution Space

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@BennoLoewenberg aft. Tony Ulwick   POSSIBLE QUESTIONS  ¿ What is the overall goal related to a certain problem   a person is trying to achieve ? ¿ Is that problem worth solving ? ¿ How do people solve this problem today ? ¿ How might we solve this problem for the customer   and how much of the overall goal ?

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Your business has many hypotheses Are consumers currently doing this? Can I create a product that will improve upon it? Can I address the market successfully? T E S T E D B Y Evidence of investment T E S T E D B Y Product Market Fit for your MVP Analytics for Marketing Experiments T E S T E D B Y Graphic: Des Traynor

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Graphic: @BennoLoewenberg aft. Osterwalder et. al.  PRIORITISE  validated unproven important nice to have Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Hypo thesis Riskiest Assumption Testing

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Gain Creators Describe how your products and services create customer gains. How do they create benefits your customer expects, desires or would be surprised by, including functional utility, social gains, positive emotions, and cost savings? Do they… Create savings that make your customer happy? (e.g. in terms of time, money and effort, …) Produce outcomes your customer expects or that go beyond their expectations? (e.g. better quality level, more of something, less of something, …) Pain Relievers Copy or outperform current solutions that delight your customer? (e.g. regarding specific features, performance, quality, …) Make your customer’s job or life easier? (e.g. flatter learning curve, usability, accessibility, more services, lower cost of ownership, …) Create positive social consequences that your customer desires? (e.g. makes them look good, produces an increase in power, status, …) Do something customers are looking for? (e.g. good design, guarantees, specific or more features, …) Fulfill something customers are dreaming about? (e.g. help big achievements, produce big reliefs, …) Produce positive outcomes matching your customers success and failure criteria? (e.g. better performance, lower cost, …) Help make adoption easier? (e.g. lower cost, less investments, lower risk, better quality, performance, design, …) Rank each gain your products and services create according to its relevance to your customer. Is it substantial or insignificant? For each gain indicate how often it occurs. Describe how your products and services alleviate customer pains. How do they eliminate or reduce negative emotions, undesired costs and situations, and risks your customer experiences or could experience before, during, and after getting the job done? Do they… Produce savings? (e.g. in terms of time, money, or efforts, …) Make your customers feel better? (e.g. kills frustrations, annoyances, things that give them a headache, …) Fix underperforming solutions? (e.g. new features, better performance, better quality, …) Put an end to difficulties and challenges your customers encounter? (e.g. make things easier, helping them get done, eliminate resistance, …) Wipe out negative social consequences your customers encounter or fear? (e.g. loss of face, power, trust, or status, …) Eliminate risks your customers fear? (e.g. financial, social, technical risks, or what could go awfully wrong, …) Help your customers better sleep at night? (e.g. by helping with big issues, diminishing concerns, or eliminating worries, …) Limit or eradicate common mistakes customers make? (e.g. usage mistakes, …) Get rid of barriers that are keeping your customer from adopting solutions? (e.g. lower or no upfront investment costs, flatter learning curve, less resistance to change, …) Rank each pain your products and services kill according to their intensity for your customer. Is it very intense or very light? For each pain indicate how often it occurs. Risks your customer experiences or could experience before, during, and after getting the job done? Products & Services List all the products and services your value proposition is built around. Which products and services do you offer that help your customer get either a functional, social, or emotional job done, or help him/her satisfy basic needs? Which ancillary products and services help your customer perform the roles of: Buyer (e.g. products and services that help customers compare offers, decide, buy, take delivery of a product or service, …) Co-creator (e.g. products and services that help customers co-design solutions, otherwise contribute value to the solution, …) Transferrer (e.g. products and services that help customers dispose of a product, transfer it to others, or resell, …) Products and services may either by tangible (e.g. manufac- tured goods, face-to-face customer service), digital/virtual (e.g. downloads, online recommendations), intangible (e.g. copyrights, quality assurance), or financial (e.g. investment funds, financing services). Rank all products and services according to their importance to your customer. Are they crucial or trivial to your customer? Gains Describe the benefits your customer expects, desires or would be surprised by. This includes functional utility, social gains, positive emotions, and cost savings. Which savings would make your customer happy? (e.g. in terms of time, money and effort, …) What outcomes does your customer expect and what would go beyond his/her expectations? (e.g. quality level, more of something, less of something, …) How do current solutions delight your customer? (e.g. specific features, performance, quality, …) Pains Customer Job(s) Describe negative emotions, undesired costs and situations, and risks that your customer experiences or could experience before, during, and after getting the job done. What does your customer find too costly? (e.g. takes a lot of time, costs too much money, requires substantial efforts, …) What makes your customer feel bad? (e.g. frustrations, annoyances, things that give them a headache, …) How are current solutions underperforming for your customer? (e.g. lack of features, performance, malfunctioning, …) What are the main difficulties and challenges your customer encounters? (e.g. understanding how things work, difficulties getting things done, resistance, …) What negative social consequences does your customer encounter or fear? (e.g. loss of face, power, trust, or status, …) What risks does your customer fear? (e.g. financial, social, technical risks, or what could go awfully wrong, …) What’s keeping your customer awake at night? (e.g. big issues, concerns, worries, …) What common mistakes does your customer make? (e.g. usage mistakes, …) What barriers are keeping your customer from adopting solutions? (e.g. upfront investment costs, learning curve, resistance to change, …) Rank each pain according to the intensity it represents for your customer. Is it very intense or is it very light.? For each pain indicate how often it occurs. Describe what a specific customer segment is trying to get done. It could be the tasks they are trying to perform and complete, the problems they are trying to solve, or the needs they are trying to satisfy. What functional jobs are you helping your customer get done? (e.g. perform or complete a specific task, solve a specific problem, …) What social jobs are you helping your customer get done? (e.g. trying to look good, gain power or status, …) What emotional jobs are you helping your customer get done? (e.g. esthetics, feel good, security, …) What basic needs are you helping your customer satisfy? (e.g. communication, sex, …) Besides trying to get a core job done, your customer performs ancillary jobs in different roles. Describe the jobs your customer is trying to get done as: Buyer (e.g. trying to look good, gain power or status, …) Co-creator (e.g. esthetics, feel good, security, …) Transferrer (e.g. products and services that help customers dispose of a product, transfer it to others, or resell, …) Rank each job according to its significance to your customer. Is it crucial or is it trivial? For each job indicate how often it occurs. Outline in which specific context a job is done, because that may impose constraints or limitations. (e.g. while driving, outside, …) What would make your customer’s job or life easier? (e.g. flatter learning curve, more services, lower cost of ownership, …) What positive social consequences does your customer desire? (e.g. makes them look good, increase in power, status, …) What are customers looking for? (e.g. good design, guarantees, specific or more features, …) What do customers dream about? (e.g. big achievements, big reliefs, …) How does your customer measure success and failure? (e.g. performance, cost, …) What would increase the likelihood of adopting a solution? (e.g. lower cost, less investments, lower risk, better quality, performance, design, …) Rank each gain according to its relevance to your customer. Is it substantial or is it insignificant? For each gain indicate how often it occurs. strategyzer.com The Value Proposition Canvas Value Proposition Customer Segment The makers of Business Model Generation and Strategyzer Copyright Business Model Foundry AG Produced by: www.stattys.com Source: Stategyzer – Value Proposition Canvas fill in hypotheses

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Source: Dyhana Scarano   TESTABLE HYPOTHESIS  Based on the insights you observed Write a statement that is testable [as a prototype] Make predictions of what you think the outcomes will be

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  VALUE PROPOSITION STATEMENT  Source: Geoff Moore For  {your target customer} Who  {statement of need or opportunity} Our  {product/service name} That  {statement of benefit}

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  VALUE PROPOSITION STATEMENT  Source: Steve Blank We help  {our target customer} do  {their Job to be Done} by doing  {description of enabling offering}

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  TESTING THROUGH ASKING  + Customer interviews + Customer expert interviews (e. g. field staff, support) + Forums and Social media @BennoLoewenberg

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  TESTING THROUGH LISTENING  + Web analytics (traffic, visits, klicks) + Customer support tickets + Search trends @BennoLoewenberg

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  TESTING THROUGH ANNOUNCING  + Landingpage and/or brochure + Product packaging + Explainer video @BennoLoewenberg Fake it ‘till you make it

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  TESTING THROUGH TRYING OUT  + Wizard of Oz or Concierge + Paper prototypes + Click dummy + 3D print @BennoLoewenberg

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Source: Blank & Osterwalder – Value Proposition Canvas validated hypotheses

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Graphic: Manoj Ranaweera Minimum Viable Product   VALUE WITH EACH ITERATION 

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  PERCEIVED (ADDED) VALUE  Graphic: Cooper & Vlaskovits Minimum Desirable Product

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@BennoLoewenberg   THE CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE COUNTS  “How do customers measure the success of a job well done – the concrete results, benefits and aspirations”

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Graphic: Seema Chawla (comented) Minimum Viable Minimum Desirable Minimum Usable Innovative / New

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Graphic: Lean Startup Co (comented) Offering

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 PROCESS  @BennoLoewenberg aft. Lean Product Process 1. Determine your target customer 2. Identify un(der)served customer needs 3. Define your value proposition 4. Specify your Minimum Viable Product feature set 5. Create your MVP & test it with customers 6. Iterate to improve Product-Market Fit Offering

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@BennoLoewenberg   THE CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE COUNTS  “Talk to your customers – build and test for actual users and for real context of use” ( friends, family & colleagues are not your customers )

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  CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE  1. What is this ? 2. Do I trust you ? 3. What are you offering me ? and if it passed the ›moment of truth‹ positively: 4. How do I get it ? Source: Seth Godin

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  VALUE STATEMENT  clear, concise, goal-orientated, trustworthy, sophisticated, modest @BennoLoewenberg Don’t bury your differentiation in jargon or overexaggerations. Focus on relevance, differentiation and impact !

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Source: Smalt

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Source: Smalt

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Sources: Mark Cook & Seth Godin   DON’T LOVE THE SOLUTION  “Success is not delivering a feature;  success is learning how to solve the customers problem” “Don’t [try to] find customers for your product,  find a product for your customers.”

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What is Customer Jobs? What is a Job to be Done (JTBD)? A Job to be Done is the process a consumer goes through whenever she evolves F FI IG GU UR RE E 5 5. . T TH HE E D DE ES SI IG GN NE ER RS S A AT T I IN NT TE ER RC CO OM M ( (I IN NT TE ER RC CO OM M. .C CO OM M) ) U US SE E T TH HI IS S I IL LL LU US ST TR RA AT TI IO ON N T TO O S SH HO OW W W WH HA AT T I IS S, , A AN ND D I IS SN N’ ’T T, , I IM MP PO OR RT TA AN NT T T TO O C CU US ST TO OM ME ER RS S. . Graphic: Intercom (commented) THIS is what your biz makes  !

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  OFFER BENEFITS, NOT FEATURES  Sources: Samuel Hulick & Alan Klement “People don’t buy products;  they buy better versions of themselves.” “Customers don’t want your product,  they want what new behaviors it enables.”

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image generated using Dall·E What can help to free waiting time from being stressfull ?

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Stressful waiting time Prolonged treatment sessions increase increase image generated using Dall·E

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images generated using Dall·E What value can we offer to help freeing waiting time from being stressfull ? ! happy HCP

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  THE FULL VALUE OF THE PROPOSITION  Source: Sakshi Gupta 1. Guides product development 2. Enhances marketing and communication 3. Improves customer understanding and engagement 4. Facilitates sales and conversion 5. Builds brand reputation 6. Informs strategic decision making

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